{"id":93416,"date":"2011-05-06T18:29:55","date_gmt":"2011-05-06T13:29:55","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.epress.am\/?p=93416"},"modified":"2011-05-06T18:31:08","modified_gmt":"2011-05-06T13:31:08","slug":"emmy-accused-of-stealing-azerbaijani-dance-in-2011-eurovision-video","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/epress.am\/en\/2011\/05\/06\/emmy-accused-of-stealing-azerbaijani-dance-in-2011-eurovision-video.html","title":{"rendered":"Emmy Accused of Stealing &#8220;Azerbaijani Dance&#8221; in 2011 Eurovision (VIDEO)"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Azeri press have accused Armenia&#8217;s contestant in the 2011 Eurovision Song Contest, Emmy, of &#8220;stealing&#8221; the <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Kochari\"><strong><span style=\"color: #000080;\">Kochari<\/span><\/strong><\/a> dance (seen in the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=7CYmgtD2QQw\"><span style=\"color: #000080;\"><strong>first rehearsal video<\/strong><\/span><\/a> just after the 3rd minute) from Azerbaijan.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Since when has Kochari become an Armenian national dance?&#8221; asks Trend news agency analyst Vugar Imanov, arguing that this style of dance is specific to Azerbaijan. &#8220;It is one of the styles of <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Yalli\"><span style=\"color: #000080;\"><strong>Yalli<\/strong><\/span><\/a> dance of the nomads of Eastern Anatolia and Azerbaijan. The name comes from the Turkic word meaning nomad,&#8221; he said.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><iframe width=\"425\" height=\"344\" src=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/7CYmgtD2QQw?wmode=transparent\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen> <\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>The zealous attitude by Armenia&#8217;s neighboring country to Armenian Eurovision participants is nothing new. Two years ago, Baku press were reporting that the melody in the song &#8220;Jan Jan&#8221; performed by Armenian contestants Inga and Anush is a remake of the song &#8220;Nakhchivan&#8221; by Azerbaijani composer <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Tofig_Guliyev\"><span style=\"color: #000080;\"><strong>Tofig Guliyev<\/strong><\/span><\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Furthermore, during the competition, Azerbaijani TV concealed the telephone number through which the public could send sms votes in Armenia&#8217;s favor. But this didn&#8217;t stop several dozen Azerbaijan residents to vote for &#8220;Jan Jan,&#8221; which turned into a scandal. Voters were summoned for questioning by the country&#8217;s National Security Service.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.epress.am\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/05\/karabakh1.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-93382\" title=\"karabakh1\" src=\"http:\/\/www.epress.am\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/05\/karabakh1.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"400\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"https:\/\/epress.am\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/05\/karabakh1.jpg 400w, https:\/\/epress.am\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/05\/karabakh1-300x225.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 400px) 100vw, 400px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>The video opening the Armenian performers&#8217; show was also a cause for scandal in the 2009 Eurovision contest. In the video, among the sights of Armenia was the monument &#8220;<a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/We_Are_Our_Mountains\"><span style=\"color: #000080;\"><strong>We are our Mountains<\/strong><\/span><\/a>&#8221; (pictured above), better known as &#8220;Grandma and Grandpa,&#8221; widely regarded as a symbol of the de-facto Nagorno-Karabakh Republic.<\/p>\n<p>Azerbaijan filed a complaint and the clip with the &#8220;We are our Mountains&#8221; was removed from the video in the finals. However, Armenia found a way out: Sirusho (4th place in the 2008 Eurovision contest), while the voting results from Armenia were being announced, had a folder in her hand which she periodically raised so the image on the back of the folder \u2014 the &#8220;We are our Mountains&#8221; monument \u2014 was prominently displayed to TV viewers.<\/p>\n<!-- AddThis Advanced Settings generic via filter on the_content --><!-- AddThis Share Buttons generic via filter on the_content -->","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Azeri press have accused Armenia&#8217;s contestant in the 2011 Eurovision Song Contest, Emmy, of &#8220;stealing&#8221; the Kochari dance&#8230; <!-- AddThis Advanced Settings generic via filter on get_the_excerpt --><!-- AddThis Share Buttons generic via filter on get_the_excerpt --><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":93383,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"tstyn_error":""},"categories":[10],"tags":[19873,19872,26168],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/epress.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/93416"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/epress.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/epress.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/epress.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/epress.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=93416"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/epress.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/93416\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/epress.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/93383"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/epress.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=93416"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/epress.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=93416"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/epress.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=93416"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}