Georgian National Dance Festival in Tbilisi
Tbilisi's dance-festival calendar includes events such as the International Festival Day of Georgian Dance each June, welcoming dancers of varying ages from Georgia and abroad. Whether a listing titled the Georgian National Dance Festival refers to this same event or a related showcase is unclear, though both draw on the same deep tradition of acrobatic Georgian folk dance.
Georgian folk dance occupies a central place in the country's cultural identity, with famed touring ensembles like Sukhishvili and Erisioni built on a repertoire of highly physical, athletic dance forms drawn from different regions across the country.