Shakespeare in Georgia Exhibition, Seminar, Screening

Tuesday 21 January, 4:00pm to 6:30pm
Bahari Room, Weston Library, Bodleian Libraries, Broad Street, Oxford, OX1 3BG

Shakespeare in Georgia

Exhibition, Seminar, Screening

Idea and Concept by

Prof. David Maziashvili

(Academic Fellow, REES, University of Oxford)

Conveners:

Dr. Gillian Evison (Bodleian Libraries, University of Oxford)

Prof. Dan Healey (St Antony's, University of Oxford)

Prof. David Maziashvili (Academic Fellow, REES, University of Oxford)

Programme

Exhibition

16:00-16:30

History of Translation, Staging and Studies of Shakespeare in Georgia

(Unique Posters, books, digital photo and video materials)

Welcome, Greetings and introduction

16:30-16:45

Ms. Catriona Cannon (Deputy Librarian and Keeper of Collections, Bodleian Libraries)

Dr. Gillian Evison (Keeper of Oriental Collections, Bodleian Libraries)

Prof. Dan Healey (St Antony's, University of Oxford)

HE Tamar Beruchashvili (Ambassador of Georgia to the UK)

Seminar

16:45-16:55

Prof. David Maziashvili  (Academic Fellow, REES, University of Oxford)

Shakespeare’s 450th and 400th Anniversaries in Georgia

Screening with Choreographer

16:55-17:30

Mariam Aleksidze

Choreographer

Artistic Director of Giorgi Aleksidze Tbilisi Contemporary Ballet

Shakespeare. Love

A Choreographic Fantasy

By

Mariam Aleksidze

Staged at Rustaveli Theatre

In 2016

Duration 30 minutes

Followed by a Reception with Georgian Wine

About the performance

Shakespeare. Love

A Choreographic Fantasy

The storyline of the performance is based on various plays by Shakespeare, representing certain choreographic allusions and fantasy and dramaturgically uniting Shakespearean characters. The performance has a distinctive artistic form. The actors will play out Shakespearean plots using body language rather than words, animating on stage, through the language of contemporary dance, the Shakespearean characters familiar to everyone, expressing human nature, mystery of temper, state of mind by means of thinking with the body and body physics. The choreographic transformation of drama theater actors and a ballet dancer, the live performance by a musician, the verbal part of the show - the sonnets whose melodiousness is expressed by actors through the plastique of their bodies are united by a synthesis of a spectacle staged around love.

The booklet of the performance can be found here: 

About Choreographer Mariam Aleksidze

http://www.tbilisiballet.ge/eng/team/artistic-director/

 

Co-organizers of the event:

REES, OSGA, University of Oxford;

Bodleian Libraries, University of Oxford;

Museum of the Rustaveli Theatre;

Shota Rustaveli National Science Foundation of Georgia.

This event is free but places are limited

Please compete the booking form here to reserve tickets in advance.