Chabukiani Vakhtang biography

Born on February 27 on March 12 in the provincial city of Tiflis now - Tbilisi, Georgia in a poor family. In the year he graduated from the ballet studio M. Perini and worked at the Georgian Opera and Ballet Theater named after Z. in the year entered the Leningrad Choreographic School, after which he worked as an artist of the Leningrad Opera and Ballet Theater.

From the year he toured abroad. He performed the leading parties of the classic repertoire. Its main features were sincerity and passion, the ability to completely dissolve in the image, whether it be the comedy party of Basil in the Don Quixote A. Gorsky L. Minkus Music or a romantic prince in one of M.'s ballets, the dance in these ancient ballets also received a new sound.

Chabukiani strengthened his virtuosity, saturated with jumps and rotations, thereby giving the images strength and masculinity. Since the year, Chabukiani lived and worked in Tbilisi, where he headed the ballet troupe of the Opera and Ballet Theater named after Z. Paliashvili, and in years - the local choreographic school.

In the years, he headed the choreographer of the S. Rustaveli Theater Institute. He put a number of performances using elements of national culture in them: “proud” Music by D. Toradze,; Stalin Prize, “Othello” Music by A. Machavarian,, “Demon” Music S. Qintsadze, “Hamlet” Music R. Gabichchvadze, his own productions opened exceptional opportunities for men's dance, for example, in the “Heart of the Mountains” A.

Balanchidze Music, where Chabukiani played the young man Dzharzhi, who headed the popular uprising. One of the impressive moments of the performance was the mass “Horumi”, a warlike Georgian dance. Another production that strengthened the glory of Chabukiani, as a choreographer of the heroic topic, is Laurencia Music by A. Crane, on the plot of the play by Lope de Vega “Ovetiy Source”, about the village, which rose to the tyrant led by the peasant Frontoso.

The author of the scripts and the director of the films “Masters of the Georgian Ballet” and “Othello” summarizing the traditions of classical ballet and Georgian dance art, he created a special style of male stage dance, in which sculptural majesty is combined with internal expression, violent temperament. Rare natural data, virtuoso technique, rotation helped the dancer with ease and ease to fulfill the most difficult parties.

He lived and worked in Tbilisi. He died on April 6. He was buried in the pantheon of Mtatsmind's artists in Tbilisi. He was awarded 4 orders of Lenin Laureate of the Lenin Prize, Stalin Prize, the name Vakhtang Chabukiani is a street in Tbilisi.