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Larnaca, Cyprus – 8 June 2025
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1. Close of violinist and lute player performing at a poetry and dance competition
2. Wide of stage and audience members at the Larnaca promenade
3. Lyricist Adamos Peratikos (left) sings a tongue-in-cheek rhyme aimed at demonstrating his lyrical supremacy over his opponent
UPSOUND: (Cypriot Dialect) Adamos Peratikos: "Let me tell you Antonis something that I suggest to you, come right to the entrance of the tunnel and they should turn you back."
4. UPSOUND: (Cypriot Dialect) Peratikos’ rival: "Adamos, I’m coming back to you and it seems like you want to suffer, you never beat me and you’ll never beat me."
Peratikos: UPSOUND: (Cypriot Dialect) "If you’re involved with music at all, I say this and I undersign it…"
5. Audience member reacts
6. SOUNDBITE (Greek) Adamos Peratikos, Cypriot lyrical dualist:
"This draws us and we like it. It’s tradition and we want to maintain the tradition. We urge other kids who like it to come along to safeguard this institution. The goal isn’t about awards. The goal is to keep tradition alive."
7. Peratikos listens as his rival rhymes a dismissive lyric UPSOUND: (Cypriot Dialect) "Tell me when was the last time you Christened anyone because I don’t remember."
8. SOUNDBITE (Greek) Adamos Peratikos, Cypriot lyrical dualist:
"Certainly it’s an innate skill, but it needs practice and you’ve got to practice in your mind. If I would say a rhyme (tsiattisto), how would he (my opponent) respond? I try to figure out what how he could possibly respond, so I can get into the mindset of my opponent."
9. Pan left of audience
10. SOUNDBITE (Greek) Adamos Peratikos, Cypriot lyrical dualist:
"Not at all, because artificial intelligence doesn’t rhyme (tsiattista) in the Cypriot dialect. Not a chance. There’s no such thing that could write rhymes (tsiattista) in the Cypriot dialect. There are words that we’ve heard but we don’t even know, so there’s no way artificial intelligence does."
11. Close-up of sign of the three-day festival known as "Kataklysmos;" pans left to show people strolling along the promenade lined with different stands
12. Close-up of a bust of the ancient Greek General Kimon with the flags of Greece, Cyprus and Larnaca Municipality in the background
13. Shot of Nicoletta Demetriou, an ethnomusicologist and director of the Cyprus Music Archive walking along the promenade with Iosif Hadjikyriakos, director of the Larnaca Archives
14. SOUNDBITE (Greek) Nicoletta Demetriou, ethnomusicologist and director of the Cyprus Music Archive:
"We can’t exactly date the origin of the tsiattista. We know that poetic duels have been around since the time of antiquity, but the format of tsiattista as we now know it came later. Tsiattista, as we know of them today, evolved only when rhyming lyrics made their way to the Greek-speaking world, around the 15th and 16th centuries."
15. Close-up of a violin being played
16. Mid of violist and lute player rehearsing behind the main stage
17. A traditional flutist practicing
18. Lyrists, poets and musicians sit together in an area reserved for competitors located behind the stage
19. Close-up of a traditional Cypriot clear spirit called Zivania
20. Peratikos takes a shot of Zivania
21. Audience members applauding
23. Audience members laugh and applaud
24. SOUNDBITE (Greek) Konstantinos Christou Grilias, lyrical dualist:
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