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swan-like grace, her waist and thighs become thinner, arms – of Harlequin, and others. Despite scarce financial resources
more gentle and hands – more delicate. the School still manages to invite from abroad famous
Through using special combinations at the exam the dancers and teachers: Yukiko Sakurai, Irina Kolpakova,
commission tries to disclose what plasticity, flexibility or Vlad Semionov, Maria Kalegar, Eva Kloborg, Andrei Kudelin,
ability of coordination the entrant possesses. Along with this Dmitri Korneev, Oliver Pâté, Teet Cask, Tom Bosman,
the commission takes into consideration the potential for Alexei Mishutin, Valentin Bartes, and many others. These
reaching all the above said through hard and tiresome work renowned representatives of the ballet hold master classes
of a teacher and a student. Yes, the most tiresome work, as and familiarize the students with the new tendencies in XXI
if you watch the teachers after the lessons in classics, you’ll century ballet, which is of greatest importance, because the
notice how very tired they are. During the lesson the teacher School students should appear on the creative arena just in
does not sit at all. The teacher comes up to each student, XXI century.
shows each move, corrects the pose and all this is repeated The School students successfully participate in the
many times and the teacher does this patiently, with firm will, international competitions. In 2011 in Donetsk, the School
professionalism and full of responsibility. The School teachers student Nutsa Chekurashvili became the III Prize Laureate of
consider their obligation to stir up the creative fantasy. They the Serge Lifar VII International Competition.
set the task for their students to form combinations of their In July 2011, exchange program was implemented
own, to substantiate why they built these moves in such between the Choreographic School and Academy of Dance
succession, which is thought by them. The teachers watch “Pelad”, the city of Burgos, Spain.
how the students feel music, rhythm, how they see the scenic In 2012, at the Riga International Ballet Competition,
space and manage coordination in it. The School continues Nutsa Chekurashvili and Mamuka Kikalishvili won Grand
the training practice. The School students participate Prix; they also gained great success at the International Ballet
in the theater and ballet performances and dance quite Competition held in the city of Helsinki, Finland. It is really a
extended scenes. They have possibility to take part in the successful achievement that the School managed to send
conserts twice a year great “views” are arranged – reporting tlhe VIII year students to the Peking III World Ballet Festival.
appearances in which the entire School participates, starting The Georgian participants were among the best five.
from the first up to the graduation classes… They manage In 2013, exchange project was implemented between the
this, though no special concert hall is in the School, and School and the School of Dance of the National Conservatory
the repair works were ongoing in Opera Theater for seven of Portugal,
years. Through large financial efforts the School authorities In February 2014, at the Berlin International Festival
managed to present and show their students’ achievements. Salome Leverashvili in the individual dance won the second
All the year round the School students intensively participate place, and in group dance she, Ketevan Kobakhidze, Lana
in different performances of the Opera and Ballet Theater: Gogisvanidze and Nino Khakhutashvili occupied the fourth
The Nutcracker and The Swan Lake, Giselle, Don Quixote, place.
Mozartiana, La Fille Mal Gardee, Tsuna and Tsrutsuna. In the In 2015, 25-31 March, the students of the Vakhtang
School were staged: Chopiniana, Pakhita, the Swan Lake, Chabukiani Tbilisi Ballet Art State School participated in
and the Sleeping Beauty. Cinderella, the Midsummer Night’s Domenico Moduni International Ballet Competition in the city 61
Dream, Doctor Aibolit, Chipollino, the Fairy of Dolls, Millions of Bari, Italy. Nino Khakhutaishvili was among the best and