Chopiniana rehearsals
Ekaterine Surmava, Nini Samadashvili and Eka Makhachashvili
Kato Lominadze, Nia Geladze, Tamta Bakhtadze and Vika Kikabidze.
Maia Iluridze-Pratt, Irina Olga Rtveladze, Anna Timoshenko, Nino Megrelishvili, Nino Makhashvili, Tatyana Gladchenko-Salkhinashvili, Laniko Mghebrishvili, Natalia Rigvava and Nuca Chekurashvili.
Nino Gogua, State Ballet Georgia
Nini Samadashvili, Sate Ballet of Georgia
Chopiniana – Sate Ballet Georgia rehearsals, Nina Gogua
Eric Burrough
Nino Gogua, Eric Burrough and Nuca Chekurashvili
Nini Samadashvili
Tamta Bakhtadze, Rusa Kvitsiani, Nia Geladze, Kato Lominadze, Sopho Pan, Mari Elo, Alisa Bogdanova and Eka Makhachashvili.
Chopiniana rehearsal at Saaremaa opera days 2013, State Ballet of Georgia, Nini Samadashvili and Nino Gogua as soloists.
Chopiniana (Les Sylphides) is a short, non-narrative ballet blanc. Its original choreography was by Michel Fokine, with music by Frédéric Chopin orchestrated by Alexander Glazunov. Glazunov had already set some of the music in 1892 as a purely orchestral suite, under the title Chopiniana, Op. 46. In that form it was introduced to the public in December 1893, conducted by Nikolai Rimsky-Korsakov.
The ballet, often described as a “romantic reverie”, was indeed the first ballet ever to be simply that. Les Sylphides has no plot, but instead consists of many white-clad sylphs dancing in the moonlight with the poet or young man dressed in white tights and a black top.
Photos by Jack Devant with kind permission of the Saaremaa Opera Days, special thanks to Lauri Aav.
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