Tbilisi Ballet Festival: One-Act Ballets

Premiere of Reconstructed Productions

1st Flash
Choreography — Jorma Elo
Music: Violin Concerto in D Minor (movements II & III) by Jean Sibelius

Staging Ballet Master — Christophe Dozzi
Costume Designers — Joke Visser, Jorma Elo
Lighting — Jordan Tuinman
Scenography — Jorma Elo
Rehearsal Coaches — David Ananeli, Shorena Khaindrava
Project Manager — Lana Mgebrishvili

World premiere: September 18, 2003, Netherlands Dance Theater I and Lucent Danstheater (The Hague, Netherlands)
Tbilisi premiere: June 29, 2013

Petite Cérémonie
Choreography and Scenography — Medhi Walerski
Music: works by Mozart, Bellini, Rodgers & Hart, Vivaldi (compiled by Walerski)
Staging — Sylvain Senez
Costume Designer — Linda Chow
Lighting Designer — Bonnie Beecher
Rehearsal Coach — Nino Ochiauri

World premiere: February 17, 2011, Vancouver, Canada
Tbilisi premiere: February 4, 2017

Sechs Tänze
Choreography — Jiří Kylián
Music: Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart — Six German Dances, KV 571
Choreographer’s Assistants — Urzi Aranburu, Shirley Esseboom
Conductor — Levan Jagaev
Lighting: Concept — Jiří Kylián, Execution — Joop Caboort
Set and Costumes — Jiří Kylián
Technical Stage & Lighting Director — Joost Bigelaar
Rehearsal Coach — Lali Kandelaki

World premiere: October 24, 1986, Het Muziektheater, Amsterdam, Netherlands
First Tbilisi performance: October 18, 2008
Reconstructed version premiere: October 11, 2024

Orchestra of the Tbilisi Z. Paliashvili Opera and Ballet Theatre
Conductor — Levan Jagaev (“Sechs Tänze”)

Artistic Director of the Festival — Nino Ananiashvili

• Latecomers will be admitted only at the beginning of the next act

• Dress code is enforced

• Children under 6 are admitted only to matinee performances