Presentation of Professor David Maziashvili’s New Bilingual Monograph at The London Book Fair

Credit: Steve Burden Photography

On March 11, a presentation of TSU Associate Professor and Academic Fellow of REES, University of Oxford David Maziashvili’s new bilingual monograph “Word as Music and Movement - Western Literature in Mariam Aleksidze’s Choreography” was held at The London Book Fair.

A 45-minute presentation, “Word as Music and Movement: Celebrating Western Literature with Georgian Contemporary Ballet,” was held to a packed audience and combined a presentation by the book’s author, Professor David Maziashvili, and his latest work, a conversation between the publisher and the author, and a choreographic performance.

Professor David Maziashvili’s monograph “Word as Music and Movement” studies and analyzes the great literary texts transformed by modern choreography in the work of Mariam Aleksidze, a Georgian female choreographer of contemporary ballet. The work comprehensively examines the issues of reception, adaptation and interpretation of the works of great European writers and thinkers: Euripides, Ovid, Boethius, Dante, Shakespeare, James Joyce and Georgian poet Marijani in the modern Georgian ballet and choreographic performances of Mariam Aleksidze from 2016 – 2024.  

The event presented at The London Book Fair ended with a specially created choreographic performance by choreographer Mariam Aleksidze, Artistic Director of the Giorgi Aleksidze Tbilisi Contemporary Ballet, which combined fragments from contemporary ballets featured in Professor David Maziashvili’s monograph “Word as Music and Movement - Western Literature in Mariam Aleksidze’s Choreography.” 
  
Publisher - Cezanne Publishing. The presentation at the London Book Fair took place as part of the Georgian National Stand events. The copy of the monograph can be found at the Bodleian Libraries.

Catch-up on the event 

If you missed Georgian Dr Maziashvili’s “Word as Music and Movement: Celebrating Western Literature with Georgian Contemporary Ballet” event, that took place at The London Book Fair you can view a video below about the event.