ORIGINS (2015) / final scene

ORIGINS / director’s cut

final scene

OPENING CEREMONY

FIRST EUROPEAN GAMES

conceived, visualised and directed by

DIMITRIS PAPAIOANNOU

Baku 2015

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the final fifteen minutes that lit the fire of the first European Games

on 12 June 2015 in Baku

a story created with the ingredients of Azerbaijan, land of FIRE

an iconic Azerbaijani CARPET

the sound of MUGHAM

the mud volcanoes that make vast CRACKED EARTH landscapes

a SEMENI plate with green sprouting wheat, symbol of NOVRUZ,

a festival rooted in ZOROASTRIANISM that celebrates spring and rebirth

FIRE MOUNTAIN (YANAR DAG), where eternal fires burn from the ground

prehistoric PETROGLYPHS — among the earliest images created by humans — carved into the rocks at GOBUSTAN

the CASPIAN sea

a traditional MALE DANCE

the story of LEYLI & MAJNUN, a legendary unfulfilled love from the epic poem by NIZAMI

where Majnun becomes a “holy fool”, a hermit on a MOUNTAIN who envisions

the image of Leyli as the manifestation of the divine

featuring mugham legend ALIM QASIMOV

orchestral scores by Azerbaijan’s great composers GARA GARAYEV and FIKRET AMIROV

and the theme from the traditional song SARI GELIN

this is the story of an epic wedding of FEMALE and MALE forces

the perfect alignment of the MOON and SUN to create an ECLIPSE

like the one seen over EUROPE on the first day of Novruz in 2015

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with

ALIM QASIMOV

mugham legend

NARGIZ NASIRZADA

woman

AYDAMIR AYDAMIROV

man

and over 1750 volunteer performers from Azerbaijan

orchestral score by

GARA GARAYEV

FIKRET AMIROV

traditional music

"Sari Gelin" song

"Yalli" dance

mugham poetry written specially by

KHOSRO SARTIPI

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ORIGINS storyboard artwork by DIMITRIS PAPAIOANNOU

download the PDF (2.4MB) here: http://bit.ly/dpORart

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ORIGINS (2015)

conceived, visualised and directed by DIMITRIS PAPAIOANNOU

TEODOR CURRENTZIS & VANGELINO CURRENTZIS

music directors

THANASSIS DEMIRIS & EVA MANIDAKI

production designers

ROBERT A. DICKINSON

lighting designer

YASHI

costume designer

ERIC TUCKER

pyrotechnic designer

NIKOS LAGOUSAKOS

male dance & yalli choreographer

TINA PAPANIKOLAOU

associate artistic director

STEPHANOS DROUSSIOTIS

artistic associate & music script

KYRIACOS KARSERAS

artistic associate & texts

CATHERINE UGWU

director of ceremonies

NICK ELTIS

senior technical director

SCOTT GIVENS

executive producer

video edited by DIMITRIS PAPAIOANNOU

with footage from show night and two dress rehearsals

directed for television by GREG BREAKELL

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