The Wizard of The Dance - Vakhtang Chabukiani

The magnificent male ballet dancer and choreographer Vaghtang Chabukiani(1910 -- 1992). He is considered to be one of the most influential male ballet dancers in history, and is noted for creating the majority of the choreography of the male variations which comprise the classical ballet repertory. Nicknamed as a "Miracle of nature", "Eagle of Caucasian Mountains", "The Wizard Of The Dance" , was born with dance in his blood and probably returned some of his back to the dance... His courageous appearance, explosive temperament, power and frankly virtuosic dancing, symbolizing the heroic origin, was expected by the Soviet ballet. The dancer did not fade into the background of partners and as if caused it on all-comers competition, reveled in freedom, soaring in flights-jumps, rising in mad, seeming infinite rotations... The following was written by famous English writer and journalist Iris Morley: "... Trying to describe this unusual and magnificent dancer can only be met with the same difficulty as when trying to describe a tornado. He takes possession of the whole scene, betraying a wonderful fury, sometimes dying down so that the stunned audience can see the body as if was hewn by Rodin. You see the eagle, which fell on the rocks of the Caucasus....he is both a great classical dancer, the heir to all the traditions of Leningrad, and the embodiment of the rich folklore of his native Georgia...." http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vakhtang_Chabukiani