Schedule for Dedication to Vakhtang Chabukiani 2022


Orchestra: Mikhailovsky Symphony Orchestra

Program dedicated to Vakhtang Chabukiani can be for convenience called a night of male dance full of drama, plasticity, expressiveness, spirituality …Being a partner of a ballerina is not the only function of a male dancer. In many classical ballets male variations were choreographed by Vakhtang Chabukiani, his talent revived and refreshed classical ballet, attracted attention to the male dance.

There will be performed pas-de-deuxs from the ballets that made Vakhtang Chabukiani famous: Grand pas from La Bayadere (2nd act, male variation choreographed by Chabukiani), pas-de-deux from the Flame of Paris, Gopak from Taras Bulba, pas-de-deux from Giselle, and of course the favorites of Vakhtang Chabukiani –pas-de-deux from Don Quixote and Le Corsaire; as well as excerpts from Otello, The Heart of the Hills, and Melody set to Gluck music and choreographed by Chabukiani.