Biography
Sukhishvili was officially founded in 1945 by Iliko Sukhishvili and Nino Ramishvili. It was the first professional state dance company in Georgia.
It’s utterly due to them that Georgian national dance has become popular all over the world.
Since 1945 three generations of Sukhishvili family are managing the Georgian National Ballet. Nowadays, Nino Sukhishvili (granddaughter of the founders) is General Director/CEO and Iliko Sukhishvili Jr (grandson of the founders) is Artistic Director and Chief Choreographer of the company. In over 500 tours Georgian National Ballet has toured five continents, more than 90 countries, held over 10,000 concerts at which more than 50 million people have attended.
