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from the country where  she spent more  than  half of her   teachers. He invited from Leningrad such high-rank teachers,
          lifetime – 48 years and served this country with all her   as  A. Vaganova, M. Kozhukhova and M Romanova.  In
          heart. Probably, she had to thank them for not being shot   1941/42 within the academic year Elizaveta Gerdt, prima-
          together with her husband; to thank for sending her to her   ballerina  of  the  Bolshoi  Theater  taught and guided the
          home country Italy, where she found the last abode of her   academic program in the School. She was famous for her
          life. Most of the victims of the 1937 terror did not even reach   virtuoso  technique,  filigree  manner  of  performance  and
          Siberia, some were simply thrown out of trains as a wood   artistic talent. Other invited teachers were: M. Grishkevich
          logs (we should remember here a shocking episode from   – teacher of Leningrad  Choreographic  School, and M.
          Tengiz  Abuladze’s  film  “Repentance”)  and  their  graves   Kamaletdinov, premier of the Tbilisi Ballet troupe.
          did not exist. A part of the Soviet intellectuals perished in    David Javrishvili, as a teacher of the special subject
          these sacral years, because the revolutionaries did not like   and scientist-researcher, was well  aware  that along  with
          thinking  personalities,  considered  them to be disgusting   the technical perfection a ballet dancer needed  wide
          worms, maggots and wanted to compress them with heels   comprehensive  education, deep comprehension  of the
          (V. I. Lenin); they were ready to raise a revolver as soon as   dance. John Weaver said: “No good, but stupid and
          they heard the word “intellectual” (Gebels); main motto of   uneducated  dancer  exists… But what can we call  those
          the tyrants, in general,  is “Death to Intelligentsia” (Franco);   impudent, who as if fly, jump, move but, don’t animals do
          they consider intellectuals the worst among all the criminal   all this better?!”. “Dancer should know the history of dance
          groups  (Mao  Tse  Tung); they want to wash away the   and  its  related  fields  of  art.  Ballet  is  a  synthetic  art  and
          intellectuals, i.e. thinking individuals, but thanks to the will   merging of dance, music, drama and pantomime should be
          of God or human being, finally they are washed away by the   harmoniously conducted in it” (Lucian).
          history, which never forgets anything.                     Just with the purpose of to study different fields of art
                                                                 and aesthetic perfection of dancers Javrishvili  invited to
                                                                 the School the art critic, academician  Vakhtang Beridze,
              SCHOLAR-CHOREOGRAPHER                              theater critics, professors Dimitri Janelidze  and Natela
              DAVID JAVRISHVILI                                  Urushadze, theater director Dimitri Aleksidze. Who if  not
                                                                 him should undertake the course in actor mastership. As
             After Perini’s departure David Javrishvili continued her   the former School  student and already  renowned  theater
          work with no less efforts and devotion. He appeared to be the   director Dimitri Aleksidze perfectly knew all the nuances of
          most observant organizer, fine researcher of the Georgian   the method of work for the ballet dancers in understanding
          folk choreography and he was the first to write the scientific   the characters they had to dance. He knew that any
          works: “Dance Kartuli”, “Mtiuluri Dances”, “Georgian Folk   move would be empty and vain if the dancers could not
          Dances”, and what is most important, “Conventional Signs   comprehend their roles, could not follow their each move
          to Write Down Georgian Dances”. Thus, he formed “Notes   and gesture with the “subtext”. Classical dance is the form
          of Dance”, i.e. conventional signs, which made it possible to   of transferring the human emotions into a move, isn’t it? It is
          write down and to read the Georgian dances.            poetry of a human move as well as music or dance. Dancers
             As head of the Choreographic School, David Javrishvili   should understand, feel this move, emotionally apprehend   49
          largely  contributed  to  improvement  of  qualification  of  the   the essence of acting, and should build on it the acting of
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