Nino ramishvili biography

Nino Ramishvili (1910-2000).
Nino Shalvovna Ramishvili was a Soviet and Georgian ballet dancer, choreographer, and co-founder of the Sukhishvili Georgian National Ballet.
Nino Shalvovna Ramishvili was a Soviet and Georgian ballet dancer, choreographer, and co-founder of the Sukhishvili Georgian National Ballet.

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Nino Ramishvili

Georgian ballet dancer and ballet master (1910–2000)

Nino Shalvovna Ramishvili (Georgian: ნინო შალვას ასული რამიშვილი; 19 January 1910 – 6 September 2000) was a Soviet and Georgian ballet dancer, choreographer, and co-founder of the Sukhishvili Georgian National Ballet. People's Artist of the USSR (1963) and Hero of Socialist Labour (1990).

Career

From 1922 to 1927, Ramishvili studied at the ballet school of Maria Perini in Tbilisi.^[1]

From 1927 to 1936, she was the soloist of the ballet theater Paliashvili, where she performed in productions of Abesalom and Eteri, Daisi, The Tale of Shota Rustaveli, Keto and Kote, and Tsisana.^[1]

In 1945, together with her husband Iliko Sukhishvili, Ramishvili founded the Sukhishvili Georgian National Ballet, initially called the Georgian State Dance Company, where she became soloist and dance teacher until 1972.

In 1972, she became chief choreographer of the Sukhishvili Georgian National Ballet.^[1]

The Georgian National Ballet has been represented by world's many well-

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Georgian National Ballet : Dance and Dazzle

If Georgia’s cuisine is any indication, this country’s other arts are equally dazzling, especially music and dance. The first time I saw Georgian dancing was when the Georgian National Ballet Sukhishivili-Ramishvili visited Kyiv during my childhood. By then I had already studied classical ballet for several years, so it was hard to impress me with complicated turns or jumps, but when the Georgian troupe took stage, it charged up the whole auditorium with so much energy that for the two hours of the performance I felt myself soaring. I have since seen hundreds of dance performances, both folk and classics, but this feeling of intoxication and euphoria returned only on a few occasions since, the most recent being during Natalia Osipova’s performance of Giselle.

And it’s hard not to be moved watching Georgian dancing with its energy, rhythm, complex technique and precision. The clip above is the rehearsal of the same troupe I saw as a child, but of course, with a new generation of dancers. Sukhishvili-Ramishvil

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The Georgian National Ballet was founded by Iliko Sukhishvili and Nino Ramishvili in 1945 and was initially named as The Georgian State Dance Company. It was the first professional state dance company in Georgia. After them many other companies were founded on their example.

It is wholly due to them that Georgian national dancing and music has developed and become well known all over the world. Nino Ramishvili and Iliko Sukhishvili became inseparable partners both on stage and in life. Filled with determination, they made their dream a reality. Their life together was an adventure of creativity, which was fully realized through new generations of dancers.

Iliko, 1929.

The two hours program of The Georgian National Ballet is one continuous story of the adventure of the Georgian spirit, the change, which took place in its existence. The program presented by Sukhishvili and Ramishvili went through some important changes. The structure, architectonics, separate steps of each dance were improved and changed. The vector of all these changes was and is direct