TBILISI, April 21 (Reuters) - Georgia's National Ballet, the former Soviet country's famous folk dance ensemble, started giving lessons online after the group's popular dance schools closed their ...

Brighton Beach experienced a wave of culture on Saturday as traditional Georgian and Ukrainian folk dancers took to the Boardwalk. Crowds gathered to witness the strength and grace of professional ...

Jeff Himler Sunday, Jan. 23, 2022 4:48 p.m. | Sunday, Jan. 23, 2022 4:48 p.m. Swords flashed and scarves twirled Sunday as the Tamburitzans presented a Georgian folk dance in Greensburg. Their touring ...

WESTMINSTER — The Zedashe Ensemble from the Republic of Georgia will give a concert of traditional Georgian music and dance on Sunday, Sept. 29, at 7 p.m. at the Westminster West Church. Mountainous ...

How do you modernize a folk institution -- especially one as justly famed as the Georgian State Dance Company, one of the great showpiece ensembles of what used to be the Soviet Union? The question ...

George Balanchine, the presiding genius of 20th century ballet, was from Georgia, at that time a southern province of Russia, and his surname is a French contraction of his original name, ...

There is one folklore group that was given a chance to perform on the stage of Italy’s renowned opera house La Scala. It was the Sukhishvili National Ballet from Georgia, also welcomed by notable ...

The Georgian folk dancer is an image of masculine stereotype. His movements are martial, virile; they simulate war, hunting, and the courtship of his beloved. Often accoutered with a double-edged ...

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 ...

So much of our lives are going online -- and here in Georgia, the classes run by the National Ballet are no exception. A student carefully watches and repeats the moves at home that are filmed on a ...

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 ...