Chopiniana rehearsals

Chopiniana Sate Ballet Georgia rehearsals, Nini Samadashvili

Ekaterine Surmava, Nini Samadashvili and Eka Makhachashvili

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With Kato Lominadze, Nia Geladze, Tamta Bakhtadze and Vika Kikabidze.

Kato Lominadze, Nia Geladze, Tamta Bakhtadze and Vika Kikabidze.

With Maia Iluridze-Pratt, Irina Olga Rtveladze, Anna Timoshenko, Nino Megrelishvili, Nino Makhashvili, Tatyana Gladchenko-Salkhinashvili, Laniko Mghebrishvili, Natalia Rigvava and Nuca Chekurashvili.

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

Nino Gogua, State Ballet Georgia

Nini Samadashvili, Sate Ballet of Georgia

Nini Samadashvili, Sate Ballet of Georgia

Chopiniana Sate Ballet Georgia rehearsals, Nina Gogua

Chopiniana – Sate Ballet Georgia rehearsals, Nina Gogua

Chopiniana Sate Ballet Georgia rehearsals Eric Burrough

Eric Burrough

Chopiniana Sate Ballet Georgia rehearsals Nino Gogua, Eric Burrough and Nuca Chekurashvili

Nino Gogua, Eric Burrough and Nuca Chekurashvili

Chopiniana Nini Samadashvili

Nini Samadashvili

With Tamta Bakhtadze, Rusa Kvitsiani, Nia Geladze, Kato Lominadze, Sopho Pan, Mari Elo, Alisa Bogdanova and Eka Makhachashvili.

Tamta Bakhtadze, Rusa Kvitsiani, Nia Geladze, Kato Lominadze, Sopho Pan, Mari Elo, Alisa Bogdanova and Eka Makhachashvili.

Chopiniana Sate Ballet Georgia rehearsals

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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