It has survived communist oppression, the Cold War, the break-up of the Soviet Union and counted Josef Stalin and Elvis Presley among its admirers, but at its heart the Georgian National Ballet has ...

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TBILISI, April 21 (Reuters) - Georgia's National Ballet, the former Soviet country's famous folk dance ensemble, started giving lessons online after the group's popular dance schools closed their ...

NEW YORK, N.Y. — Nearly 80 years after its founding, the Georgian National Ballet Sukhishvili will step onto one of the world’s most prestigious stages for the first time. The internationally ...

George Balanchine, the presiding genius of 20th century ballet, was from Georgia, at that time a southern province of Russia, and his surname is a French contraction of his original name, ...

Ananiashvili decided she couldn't refuse. The government gave her the necessary financial support to rebuild the ballet's repertoire and artistic rigor. Both had fallen into decline during the long ...

Nina Ananiashvili, the luminous ballerina of the Bolshoi and American Ballet Theatre, has added the title of “company artistic director” to her resume, and if one performance is a predictor, this new ...

So much of our lives are going online -- and here in Georgia, the classes run by the National Ballet are no exception. A student carefully watches and repeats the moves at home that are filmed on a ...