Internship offered for male and female dancers at the State Ballet of Georgia

Posted on May 31, 2012

Nina Ananiashvili and the State Ballet of Georgia are offering a full-year internship for male and female dancers for the 2012–2013 season. The internship will include accommodation. Shortlisted dancers will participate in all performances undertaken by the company, with further possibility of a full-time contract.

Classes and rehearsals will be conducted by the artistic director of the State Ballet of Georgia, Nina Ananiashvili, and Anatoli Kucheruk (teacher emeritus and winner of the best teacher award at the New York Ballet Competition in 2006).

For further details, please contact:

Gvantsa Badurashvili by email at gbadurashvili@yahoo.com or

Mariam Eristavi at mariameristavi@hotmail.com

For further details on the State Ballet of Georgia, see the May 2012 issue of Dancing Times.

Photograph: Lado Vachnadze

Jonathan Gray

Jonathan Gray is editor of Dancing Times. He studied at The Royal Ballet School, Leicester Polytechnic, and Wimbledon School of Art where he graduated with a BA Hons in Theatre Design. For 16 years he was a member of the curatorial department of the Theatre Museum, London, assisting on a number of dance-related exhibitions, and helping with the recreation of original designs for a number of The Royal Ballet’s productions including Danses concertantes, Daphnis and Chloë, and The Sleeping Beauty. He has also contributed to the Financial Times, written programme articles for The Royal Ballet and Birmingham Royal Ballet, and is co-author of the book Unleashing Britain: Theatre gets real 1955-64, published in 2005.