Dimitris Papaioannou

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Dimitris Papaioannou is a Greek artist who gained early recognition as a painter and comics artist, before his focus shifted to the performing arts. He was a student of the iconic Greek painter Yannis Tsarouchis before studying at the Athens School of Fine Arts. Papaioannou formed the company company Edafos Dance Theatre in 1986. He gained global recognition as the creator of the Opening and Closing Ceremonies of the 2004 Olympic Games in Athens.

Most Popular Dimitris Papaioannou Trailers

Total trailers found: 12

Nowhere Trailer (2021)

01 January 2021

Nowhere is a work about the physical space of the theatrical stage. Constantly changing and defined by the men and women that inhabit it, it can be countless different places while designed to be nowhere at all.

The Tie Trailer (1991)

01 January 1991

Panayotis gambles his way out of his village near Sparta. Anthony escapes his English stately home. They meet in nighttime London, during a bloody fight.

The Kiss Trailer (1990)

01 January 1990

The child bends his head over his candle. The island breeze and the psalms of the Good Friday proces�

The Marbles Trailer (1989)

01 January 1989

Christos is a young Greek in London, well-integrated, successful, more English than the English. Esther is his landlady and lover.

Dimitris Papaioannou 2 Trailer (2007)

11 December 2007

Dimitris Papaioannou's new piece is a "dissection of the male psyche," and seems to draw upon a range of influences including the work of Jean Genet, Rene Magritte and Robert Wilson.

Athens 2004: Olympic Opening Ceremony (Games of the XXVIII Olympiad) Trailer (2004)

13 August 2004

With the Olympics returning to Greece, the opening ceremony of Athens 2004 sought to show the entire development of the Olympics over the centuries, until arriving at the modern Olympics.

Lambda Pi Trailer (2018)

15 November 2018

Lena Platonos, a major figure in the Greek music scene who has proven to be ahead of her time in terms of her groundbreaking work in electronica, is now receiving a surge of international attention, thanks to album re-issues and remixes.

Bull's Heart Trailer (2025)

11 March 2025

Eva Stefani follows the rehearsals at Onassis Stegi and the international tour of Dimitris Papaioannou’s legendary stage work, Transverse Orientation.

Black Out p.s. Red Out Trailer (1998)

04 December 1998

After her fighter pilot boyfriend commits suicide by crashing his jet into the ocean, a Greek fashion model reflects on their relationship and how it started, developed, then deteriorated.

Athens 2004: Olympic Closing Ceremony (Games of the XXVIII Olympiad) Trailer (2004)

29 August 2004

The games of the 28th summer olympiad returned to the birthplace of the Olympics - Athens, Greece. The games ran from August 13 to 29th 2004.

Primal Matter Trailer (2012)

14 September 2012

A piece that tries to keep the imagination in the highest possible state of alert using a minimum of materials, all found to hand inside the creator's workshop space.

Inside by Dimitris Papaioannou Trailer (2011)

05 May 2011

INSIDE took place in a room set inside a theatre in the centre of the city. A simple series of movements showing our daily return home was uniformly repeated by 30 performers in countless combinations and superimpositions.