Additionally, one can admire a collection of costumes that inspired Saint Laurent and Dior. All of them are made of exclusive natural fabrics and are decorated with silk embroidery, stones, and metal.
The National Ballet of Georgia, "Sukhishvili", dances to their original live music performed by their orchestra, which plays rare instruments. The musicians of the orchestra have a special technique that is not taught elsewhere but is passed down from generation to generation.
“Sukhishvili, for all its acrobatics and occasional swordfighting, possesses a refined esthetic, from the live musicians on stage with drums, flutes, guitar and accordion, to the poise of the dancers, with their lifted, dignified bearing...”
“The combination of lively music, shows of strength, tornado-fast spins, jumps, swords, shields and daggers for male dancers, matched with the gliding and elegant movements of female performers in vibrantly colored costumes make...”
“The Georgian National Ballet “Sukhishvili” began as a family enterprise, has survived communist oppression, the Cold War, the break-up of the Soviet Union and has grown into an internationally renowned company”.
