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Article: Georgia on her mind: superstar Nina Ananiashvili leads her country's state ballet back from the brink--and to the U.S.
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- Dance Magazine
- Article date:
- June 1, 2007
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To fly into Tbilisi, Georgia, you must land in pitch dark in the middle of the night. (Night air space is cheaper.) Even so, the crowd welcoming passengers boils up outside the airport's glass walls--waving, gesticulating, soundlessly shouting. When you launch yourself into the town the next morning, your taxi and the other cars speed wildly along lane-less highways, swerving to avoid the potholes. When you get to the heart of this old city and proceed on foot, you find ancient courtyards with wood bay windows obscured by hanging laundry. If you get lost in the maze of streets, signs display what looks like some squat version of Arabic.
Life is incomprehensible, ...