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ADVENTURE OF VAKHTANG CHABUKIANI TBILISI
BALLET ART STATE SCHOOL IN GEORGIA

(FROM PERINI UP TO THE PRESENT DAY)

Vakhtang Chabukiani Tbilisi Ballet Art State School expressed in his treatise “On Dance”: “Main task of a dancer
carries the name of this brilliant dancer with much pride is to master the science of conveying the thoughts by the
and full responsibility. Artistic director, teachers and the body. The dancer must have the ability to demonstrate
administration of the School do their best to assist the clearly that which is buried in the depths of the soul. The
School students to fully realize their potentials: to unite in dancer should know all, starting from the chaos, from the
them artistic and physical energy, to reach synthesis of beginning of the world up to the present day”. It’s really
their musical, plastic and artistic abilities. The teachers quite a difficult task! But to live in art is not easy either, and
work hard to make the future dancers be not only masterly those, who don’t take into consideration the thoughts of
perfect, but also play their parts with artistic accuracy and their ancestors, simply dance on the ballet stage. However,
emotional expression. They teach their students to study those, who understand importance of great art of dance,
the information about the environment of characters they they remain in the history of art.
should dance. They teach them to improve daily their dance
technique, to be never tired of further development and
study, whenever they will become members of great theaters STORY ON HOW GEORGIANS DANCE
or small groups, in a word to remember well the words of
XVIII century great English ballet practitioner and theorist A building stands in one of the streets of Tbilisi, where
John Weaver: “I wish someone will appear to reveal to the one can see slim, thin boys and girls walking a bit unusually,
mankind great potentials and abilities of ballet… We should gracefully. They walk in and out through the door and if they
root out senseless and mechanic dance and establish the see an adult (probably, a teacher) walking in through the
dance full of sense and comprehension, so that people can same door, a picture appears before the surprised passers-
evaluate elegance and beauty of ballet…There exist no by – the picture characteristic more to the past centuries
good but stupid and illiterate dancers”. than to the present XXI century. Girls stand in the pose
Weaver’s above-cited words echo with the consideration characteristic to the classical ballet and make deep curtesy. 37
of II century Greek writer and art theorist Lucian of Samosata This way they greet their teachers. It is not surprising,