Olympic flame lighting performers rehearse, describe significance of the moment

(15 Apr 2024)
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ASSOCIATED PRESS
Athens - 31 March 2024
1. Close of Olympic rings, pull out to wide of the Panathenaic Stadium (site of first modern Olympic Games) and dancers practicing performance for Olympic flame lighting ceremony
2. Various of dancers during rehearsal
ASSOCIATED PRESS
Athens - 10 March 2024
3. Low angle shot of choreographer’s legs as dancers rehearse in background, UPSOUND choreographer counting
4. Wide of choreographer and artistic director of lighting and handover ceremonies for Olympic flame, Artemis Ignatiou with dancers during rehearsal
5. Various of dancers at rehearsal
ASSOCIATED PRESS
Athens - 30 March 2024
6. SOUNDBITE (Greek) Artemis Ignatiou, choreographer and artistic director of the lighting and handover ceremonies for the Olympic flame:
“Apart from the fact that they should be graduates of a higher professional school of theatre or dance, they should have ancient Greek beauty and a good moral character. My teacher, Maria Hors, insisted on this very much. And for me, they must really want this. They must want it as much as I did."
7. Various of dancers removing costumes from garment bags
8. Close of dress detail
9. Various of dancers putting on sandals
10. Dancer carrying dress to bathroom
11. Various of dancers helping each other with costume and hair
12. Wide of dancers with costumes walking
13. Close of dancer’s feet in sandals as she walks
14. SOUNDBITE (Greek) Artemis Ignatiou, choreographer and artistic director of the lighting and handover ceremonies for the Olympic flame:
“It’s all about the team. Nobody can do anything alone. For me, the ceremony is all about this group of volunteers who trust me, we all love each other very much, and we feel like a family."
15. Wide of dancers walking into Olympic velodrome for rehearsal
16. Close of dancers’ feet as they walk
17. Close of dress detail
18. SOUNDBITE (Greek) Kallia Vouidaski, 23, dancer:
“I’m in awe that we’re going there (to Olympia) and that I’m going to be part of this whole team, and that I’m going to have this entire experience that I watched when I was little on TV. I would say ’Oh! How cool would it be if I could do this at some point.’ And I did it.”
19. Close of dancers waiting to start rehearsal
20. Various of dancers during rehearsal
21. Close of phone, pull out to show dancers looking at video of performance on phone
22. SOUNDBITE (Greek) Christiana Katsimpraki, 23, dancer:
"Every time I watch the video to make sure I remember it. Before I go to bed, when I close my eyes, I go through the whole choreography - a run through - to make sure I have all the steps memorised and that they’re timed correctly. It’s so that the next time I can come to the rehearsal, it all goes correctly and no one gets tired.”
23. Ignatiou speaking to dancers
24. Various of dancers during rehearsal
25. SOUNDBITE (Greek) Artemis Ignatiou, choreographer and artistic director of the lighting and handover ceremonies for the Olympic flame:
“At every rehearsal when the flame is lit, it fills my soul. And what I feel can’t be compared to anything else.”
ASSOCIATED PRESS
Athens - 31 March 2024
26. Close of flame being lit during rehearsal
27. Actress Mary Mina playing role of high priestess, standing and holding torch
28. Close of Mina holding torch, man extinguishing flame and taking torch
29. SOUNDBITE (Greek) Mary Mina, 38, high priestess actress:
30. Close of dancers’s feet during rehearsal
31. Wide of Ignatiou watching rehearsal
32. Various of rehearsal
34. Dancers leaving rehearsal area
36. Close of Olympic and Greek flags
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