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Nino Ananiashvili is a Georgian ballerina (former Principal Ballerina at the Bolshoi Theatre in Moscow) and artistic director of the State Ballet of Georgia. The Daily Telegraph has described her as one of the twelve greatest ballerinas of all time, mentioning her ‘’alluring grace, enticing mystique, personal magic, instinctive expressiveness and technical wizardry’’. In 2002, she was named as the Best Ballerina of the Year by the US Dance Magazine and she has received many awards. Ananiashvili’s performances, such as the Swan Lake, Don Quixote and Giselle, have been unforgettable for the public. She has also participated in many movies, such as the comedy “The House Which ran from the Window’’. In 2019, Nino Ananiashvili was named as Honorary President of the “Europa Nostra Georgia’’ with the aim of contributing to this citizens’ movement of cultural and natural heritage protection. Now, the Tbilisi Ballet has undergone a major refurbishment thanks to her inspiration.

You can enjoy one of her performances (Swan Lake, 2017), here: https://pantheon.world/profile/person/Nina_Ananiashvili/

Sources: https://pantheon.world/profile/person/Nina_Ananiashvili/, https://www.telegraph.co.uk/dance/what-to-see/12-of-the-greatest-ballerinas-of-all-time/nina-ananiashvili-don-quixote0/, https://gnta.ge/publication/product-brochure-culture/, https://www.europanostra.org/international-conference-and-event-for-georgian-award-winners-and-7-most-endangered-sites-held-in-tbilisi/

Photos taken from: https://pantheon.world/profile/person/Nina_Ananiashvili/, https://georgianjournal.ge/culture/35771-the-prima-ballerina-nino-ananiashvili-named-the-honorable-president-qeurope-nostraq-to-georgia.html  and https://georgianjournal.ge/culture/26730-nino-ananiashvili-40-year-on-the-stage.html

Courtesy of the Georgian National Tourism Administration

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