Dance performance by Natia Bunturi

It is our great pleasure to invite you to a dance performance by Natia Bunturi, which will take place on Friday, July 18, at 7 PM.

This visceral, embodied movement piece will unfold in the intimate setting of the U10 Art Space. Created in dialogue with the environment, the performance explores the tension between visible and invisible forces within the body, society, and the architecture around us.

The performance features Natia Bunturi, a contemporary ballet dancer and choreographer from Georgia who is currently working in Belgrade. Her work bridges classical technique with raw, intuitive expression shaped by personal, cultural, and political landscapes.

This performance is not just seen; it is felt. It invites the audience into a shared presence, where boundaries blur between performer and observer, gesture and atmosphere, past and present.

Natia Bunturi (1986) is a professional ballet dancer, born in Tbilisi, Georgia. She began her classical training at age 10 at the Tbilisi V. Chabukiani State School of Ballet. From 2002 to 2004, she studied at The Boston Ballet School (Boston, MA, USA) on a full scholarship, also a recipient of the Sydelle Gomberg Scholarship. She continued her studies at The Joffrey Ballet School (New York, NY, USA) from 2004 to 2005. In 2005, Natia joined the Philadelphia Ballet (Philadelphia, PA, USA) as a corps de ballet member under the direction of Roy Kaiser, where she performed until 2008. She then returned to her roots, joining the State Ballet of Georgia (Tbilisi, Georgia) as a corps de ballet member under artistic director Nina Ananiashvili, serving from 2008 to 2011. From 2011 to 2020, Natia was a principal dancer with Giorgi Aleksidze Tbilisi Contemporary Ballet, based in Tbilisi, Georgia. Currently a freelance dancer and choreographer, guesting to different theatres as a dancer and a choreographer, staging and performing her own works. In 2023, Natia founded Saniao Arts, a regional art hub and artist residency in the Dusheti region of Georgia. The project features an open-air forest stage and a stage-house living area for artists, dedicated to performing arts and aims to foster artistic exploration and collaboration in a natural setting.