ORIGINS at the Emmy Awards
ORIGINS, the Opening Ceremony of the First European Games — Baku 2015 conveived, visualised and directed by Dimitris Papaioannou has been nominated for six Emmy Awards, for direction, production design, music, lighting, costumes, and sound!
Dimitris Papaioannou has been personally nominated for two Emmy Awards in the categories "Outstanding Directing Special Class" and "Outstanding Art Direction / Set Decoration / Scenic Design".
Six more Greek team members have also been nominated for their work: Tina Papanikolaou (associate artistic director) Thanassis Demiris & Eva Manidaki (production design) Teodor Currentzis & Vangelino Currentzis (music direction) Angelos Mentis (special segment direction & design)
The Award Ceremony will be held in Los Angeles on 29 April 2016. See here for more details on the Award categories and other nominees.
Here are two director's cuts of the Ceremony: ORIGINS — final scene ORIGINS — europa and the bull
Congratulations to the many hundreds involved in this enormous project, including almost 2,000 volunteer performers from Azerbaijan, and the over sixty Greek artists on the creative team!
Danza&Danza Choreographer of the Year 2015
Dimitris Papaioannou has been named Choreographer of the Year by the Italian Danza&Danza magazine, following presentations of STILL LIFE in Milan and Cagliari, and PRIMAL MATTER in Vicenza in 2015.
Here are some of the editorial team's thoughts, from their announcement of the award:
“Dimitris Papaioannou seems to conceive of the stage as a large palette where time expands and assumes its shape within a universe of human bodies, matter and light. A painter of the stage who succeeds in conveying an insightful understanding of contemporary society, in between ethics and morality, turning it into a theatre of movement, rarefied, visionary, rich in profound emotion, rich in fragments of history (Greece of yesterday and today), images of life.”
See how PRIMAL MATTER looked at the legendary Teatro Olimpico in Vicenza here.
Italy, thanks for having us!
Photograph by Julian Mommert.
STILL LIFE & PRIMAL MATTER on tour
Our tour of STILL LIFE and PRIMAL MATTER continues!
Upcoming stops include Vienna, Montpellier and London, and we are very pleased to announce our first STILL LIFE dates in Asia at the Singapore International Festival of the Arts on 26-28 August 2016!
Since October 2015, we given performances in Piraeus, Vicenza, Bordeaux, Paris, Milan, Stockholm, Cagliari. Santiago, Limassol, Braga, São Paulo, Antwerp and Belgrade.
More tour cities will be added soon. More details about our travels here. We hope to see you somewhere along the way!
“Brilliant.” — “Unspeakably beautiful.” — “Heartbreaking.” “Breathtaking.” — “Masterful.” — “Sheer magic.” Read what the critics wrote about us: STILL LIFE reviews PRIMAL MATTER reviews
Warmest thanks to our tour travel sponsor, AEGEAN Airlines.
Photograph by Julian Mommert.
INSIDE (video installation) / first international presentation
We are very happy to announce that, alongside two performances of STILL LIFE, we will also be presenting the 2011 work INSIDE as a video installation at the Festival Montpellier Danse on 4 & 5 July 2016!
This will be the first presentation of INSIDE outside Greece, following screenings at the Goethe-Institut "Exchange" art project in Athens in 2012 and the Kalamata International Dance Festival in 2013.
Watch video extracts from INSIDE here.
Photographs by Marilena Stafylidou.
NOWHERE / central scene at Introdans
To celebrate the 45th anniversary of Introdans, Dimitris Papaioannou has been invited to the Netherlands for the first time to present the central scene from his 2009 work NOWHERE alongside works by Sidi Larbi Cherakaoui (In Memoriam) and Mauro Bigonzetti (Cantata).
The three works will be performed together by the Introdans company in a programme titled TUTTI on 30 September 2016, and toured until 16 December 2016.
The central scene of NOWHERE was released online in July 2014 and went viral, attracting almost 2.5 million views to date — watch it here.
With love.
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