A day in the life of Ancient Olympia with the priestesses of the Olympic flame lighting ceremony
This week sees the Olympic flame pass from Greece to Italy en route to Milan for the Winter Games. Euronews spent a day behind the scenes with the dancers and actors who perform at the historic lighting ceremony as it's been practised since the start of the movement in Ancient Olympia.
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00:00We bring you to the world of priestesses and young men known as Kuroi who every time lights the Olympic flame in a globally admired ceremony in ancient Olympia.
00:14The daily rehearsals for the flame lighting ceremony are intensive, but the final result travels all over the world, filling the host cities with pride.
00:26Ten days before the ceremony, a group of 45 people, girls and boys, settled in the hostels of the International Olympic Academy in ancient Olympia to support the high priestesses in the ceremony in lighting the Olympic flame and sending the universal message of peace among people.
00:46The artistic director of the Olympic flame ceremony since 2008 is the choreographer Artemis Ignacio.
00:53Ignacio has overseen all the details of this year's ceremony and is now overseeing the last intensive rehearsals that she has been doing with her team for several weeks.
01:06Rehearsals take place not only in the facilities of the International Olympic Academy, but mainly in the adjacent sacred archaeological site where the Olympic Games were born 2,800 years ago.
01:27Rehearsals came the same about the
01:47for Greece and to travel, this is what we ask,
01:51the message of the Olympian Academy to all the world.
01:56Because in the question,
01:59in any question, the answer is
02:03mercy to all the world.
02:06This year's ceremony is entitled Maidens and Kurai,
02:09the eternal awakening.
02:11It is naturally inspired by these magnificent statues of antiquity
02:15where the Maidens and Kurai
02:17come to life in front of spectators.
02:21I participated in 2011
02:23in the series of events and events
02:25in a new choreography every time.
02:27The feeling is really unique.
02:29The most important in this group
02:31is the dedication, the dedication,
02:33and all these common feelings,
02:35with one and only goal,
02:37to send the message of the mercy on everyone.
02:39The experience is magical and magical.
02:43We are together as a group, as a big family,
02:47and this is unbelievable.
02:49The girls have an active role
02:52by thanking the girls of God
02:54or the Olympic athletes,
02:56and then as a guru
02:58in a new choreography every time in the Olympics.
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