DANGEROUS DANCES

“This is theatre. It works because all the dancers are the same height, perfectly coiffed and precise in everything, even their gaze. The women’s long black braids reach to exactly the same point at their hips, and when the men are lined up, their red sashes are so uniformly placed that they make one bid red slash across the stage”.

“The company’s capacity to please the eye is matched by the dancers’ ability to move like the dickens. Their leaps defy gravity. They do double pirouettes beginning on their knees. Jet-speed turns are finished off cleanly. To say that the company’s dancing is high energy is too pallid a description. The program is the equivalent of 21/2 hours of double fortissimo”.

“…unarguably… there’s not a finer professional folk dance troupe in the world”.

The Washington Post, USA

The two hours program of The Georgian National Ballet is one continuous story of the adventure of the Georgian spirit, the change, which took place in its existence. The program presented by Sukhishvili and Ramishvili went through some important changes. The structure, architectonics, separate steps of each dance were improved and changed. The vector of all these changes was and is directed towards the inner wholeness. Every day, the creative search continues and we see how the evolution of dances progresses from illustrative to universal, from concreteness to general. The dances staged by The Georgian National Ballet for over the years have become a tradition. Children’s ensembles, dancing circles, amateur groups work by the methods of Sukhishvili company. The adventure of the Georgian Spirit, related by Iliko Sukhishvili and Nino Ramishvili will still fill the hearts of spectators with inexplicable emotions and bring to the world the story of a tiny people of great tragic artistry, humour and temperament.

The Georgian National Ballet has been represented by world’s many well-known impresarios and companies. The Georgian National Ballet has appeared at the Albert Hall, The Coliseum, The Metropolitan Opera, Madison Square Garden, and dozens of famous venues.

In La Scala welcomed them – it is the first and the only time a folklore group was given a chance to perform there. The curtain was lifted 14 times.

For more than 65 years the Ballet has travelled around the world and world’s famous stages have hosted the company and have admired their performance.

HISTORY OF THE GEORGIAN NATIONAL BALLET

The Georgian National Ballet was founded by Iliko Sukhishvili and Nino Ramishvili in 1945 and was initially named as The Georgian State Dance Company. It was the first professional state dance company in Georgia. After them many other companies were founded on their example.

It is wholly due to them that Georgian national dancing and music has developed and become well known all over the world. Nino Ramishvili and Iliko Sukhishvili became inseparable partners both on stage and in life. Filled with determination, they made their dream a reality. Their life together was an adventure of creativity, which was fully realized through new generations of dancers.

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