TBILISI (Reuters) - It has survived communist oppression, the Cold War, the break-up of the Soviet Union and counted Josef Stalin and Elvis Presley among its admirers, but at its heart the Georgian ...

It's not too early to say that the most heartbreaking performance of the new year comes from Levan Gelbakhiani as Merab, a talented Georgian dancer trying desperately to be true to his art and his ...

A Georgian dance studio has inspired a group of Ukrainians living in Prague. The school's adult troupe is made up of mostly Ukrainian women with a passion for Georgian culture. One performer, who fled ...

BUFFALO, N.Y. -- The Center for the Arts at the University at Buffalo will present the Georgian State Dance Company at 8 p.m. on Oct. 26 in the Mainstage theater in the Center for the Arts on the UB ...

Among the most talked-about male ballet dancers of the moment is Giorgi Potskhishvili, the Georgian principal of the Dutch National Ballet and frequent star of dance galas worldwide. The performer has ...

Ananiashvili decided she couldn't refuse. The government gave her the necessary financial support to rebuild the ballet's repertoire and artistic rigor. Both had fallen into decline during the long ...

“And Then We Danced” is a sinuous, seductive bundle of contradictions. Set in the world of Georgian dance — a centuries-old tradition that is still a powerful force in that country — this story of a ...

A Georgian dancer finds his voice amidst a conservative culture in Levan Akin's luminous drama, which is Sweden's official Oscar submission. Merab is a dancer. Like his mother and father before him, ...

It has survived communist oppression, the Cold War, the break-up of the Soviet Union and counted Josef Stalin and Elvis Presley among its admirers, but at its heart the Georgian National Ballet has ...