EYEBLINK

… IT TAKES JUST THE TIME OF AN EYEBLINK FOR OUR MOOD TO SWING, FOR OUR FEELINGS TO OVERWHELM US, FOR OUR  EMOTIONS TO TAKE OVER. JUST LIKE THE PASSAGE OF THE SEASONS…. JUST ONE EYE BLINK… 

Ashes

One-act modern ballet Ashes is a collaborative work of choreographer Sebastian Kloborg and director and playwright Davit Khorbaladze, based on the same choreographer's play, The Rest of The Best. Natalia Beridze wrote the original music for the Georgian version of the performance.

This performance, full of sharp humor, with synchronous, kaleidoscopic dance formations and synthesis of verbal and physical theatre forms, describes the process of creating and transforming a work of art backwards. It presents two versions of the play - the author's idea and its final version.

DREAMS ABOUT JAPAN

This one-act ballet was conceived by Nina Ananiashvili and created by Artistic Director of Bolshoi Theatre Alexei Ratmansky, who was a beginner choreographer at that time. It was premiered in 1998 in Moscow and since then this ballet has been performed on the major stages of the world. “Dreams about Japan” was awarded Japanese prize for the Best Ballet of the Year and Golden Mask Award, the highest theatrical prize in Russia. Original cast of the ballet included the soloists of the Bolshoi Theatre and Mariinsky Theatre Nina Ananiashvili, Tatiana Terekhova, Inna Petrova, Alexei Fadeyechev, Sergei Filin, Andrei Uvarov and Dmitri Gudanov.

“Dreams about Japan” is based on four famous plays of the Kabuki theatre:

“Sagi Musume” (“The Heron Maiden”); young girl mourns her lost love and sad destiny;

“Futa Omote” (“Double Possession”); souls of abandoned wife and husband of the defected lovers commit suicide, reunite in one evil spirit, that of half - men and half - women, catch up with the lovers and bring them to death;

“Musume Dojoji” (“Maiden of the Dojoji Temple”); young monk dismisses love of a maiden; sorrow, broken heart and pride transform her into the Fire Snake; she seeks her revenge, pursues and kills the terrified monk;      

“Kagami Jishi” (“New Year's lion Dance”); the masque of a lion forces a young man to dance to exhaustion; anybody, who dares to touch him, starts dancing frantically oneself;

The musical score of the ballet consists of six compositions by the musicians of the famous Japanese “Taiko” drum group “Kodo”.