Strong Partnerships Make a World of Difference . . . the State Ballet of Georgia

The State Ballet of Georgia featuring its Artistic Director, and AFG Advisory Board Member, Nina Ananiashvili, will tour the U.S. in February and March of 2008.

There are four New York performances at the Brooklyn Academy of Music on February 27th, 29th and March 1st and 2nd. Nina Ananiashvili will perform in two ballets on each date of the Brooklyn engagements.

Nina Ananiashvili, “arguably the most important ballerina of her generation.” The Boston Herald

Included in the company’s programs at BAM’s Howard Gilman Opera House are a sensitive rendition of the transcendent Chaconne by George Balanchine (also Georgian by birth); a work by San Francisco Ballet’s inventive choreographer-in-residence/former Bolshoi Ballet dancer Yuri Possokhov (featuring a live Georgian male choir), and two ballets by Bolshoi Ballet artistic director/choreographer Alexei Ratmansky – Bizet Variations and the Kabuki-inspired, Dreams About Japan. The program will also feature the Orchestra of the Tbilisi Theatre of Opera and Ballet

The tour starts in Berkeley, California with stops in Santa Barbara, Los Angeles, Brooklyn, NY, Chicago, IL, Iowa City, Iowa and Minneapolis, Minnesota.

This major tour in New York and around the country is produced by David Eden of David Eden Productions, Ltd.

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