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State Ballet of Georgia's Swan Lake: well-drilled but lacklustre

Nino Samadashvili as Odette and Oleg Ligai as Siegfried in State Ballet of Georgia's Swan Lake
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State Ballet of Georgia in Alexei Fadeyechev's Swan Lake
© Sasha Gusov
Oleg Ligai as Siegfried and Nino Samadashvili as Odette in State Ballet of Georgia's Swan Lake
© Sasha Gusov
Marcelo Soares as Baron Von Rothbart in State Ballet of Georgia's Swan Lake
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Oleg Ligai as Siegfried and Nino Samadashvili as Odette in State Ballet of Georgia's Swan Lake
© Sasha Gusov
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“the noble head carriage and expressive necks and shoulders of the Vaganova method were absent here”
Reviewed at The London Coliseum, London on 28 August 2024
Swan Lake (Marius Petipa, Lev Ivanov, Alexei Fadeyechev)
State Ballet of Georgia
Papuna Gvaberidze, Conductor
Nina Ananiashvili, Director
English National Opera Orchestra
Nino Samadashvili, Dancer
Oleg Ligai, Dancer
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