"Asa - called Garcia Ochiauri.

Asa was giving Ban a river!"

 

García Ochiauri, Archotion, the last Mohican of the village, bids farewell to his beloved mountains with an ecstatic dance.

I don't know if Goderdzi Chokheli knew anything about Mahasamadhi, but it is a fact that Garcia Ochiauri's dance describes the highest level of yoga.

Achieving yogic perfection is very much like losing a dancer's groove and attaining absolute freedom.

Garcia transmits in dance all the emotions that are delivered from the high mountains; Garcia receives and Garcia gives.

Dance expresses what cannot be expressed by language, what the body cannot contain. These simple emotions are not the juice of life that flows from the dance, like amrita, divine nectar, or life-giving water from the spring of Borjomi.

 

The diversity of the Georgian language is indisputable, but sometimes even it cannot fully describe our emotions; the whole body demands to be ripped out and whoop! It is at this time that we start moving, conveying indescribable feelings with our body! Perhaps this is how Georgian dance was created - the revived history of our country and people.

One dance and many battles, love, victory, sadness, jokes, or cunning. Everything is collected.

Georgian dance is as emotional and diverse as the character of Georgian people. And the dance of each corner is as individual as the nature in each corner.

Some are sophisticated and elegant, some are harsh and fierce, some are soft and even a little fun!

We can say that in our life, we also went through the emotional storm that we see in Georgian dance! Now we look at it, so ingeniously rendered, and... we cry.

The phenomenon of dance moves beyond the scope of one particular country. It is the pain and excitement expressed in the movement of fighters, seekers, artists, peasants all over the world.

Dance has no boundaries.

Georgian dance goes beyond human boundaries. In each movement, you can see the intensity of rushing rivers, the pride of invincible mountains, the eye-catching hiss of fire, or the mystical whisper of a forest.

One particularly impressive dance is the "Khanjluri." According to legend, the dizzying technique of jumping in the air and jumping in the air, shown in this dance, contributed to Didgori's mighty victory. They say that one of our fighters would jump into the enemy's back, get on his knees, start swinging daggers and take 30 warriors with him! This story is told by the dance "Khanjluri."

Nobody has written so well about Georgian dance; the writer attended 4 performances of Sukhishvili in Geneva in 1962, when they started introducing Georgian dance to the world! Grigol Robakidze writes in his brilliant essay "Georgian genius scattered with rock":

"More and more" is needed. It cannot find a limit to stop. It is attached and attached to the edge. At the same time, in this "combination" "measured and flexible" are one and the same. The master of the limitless shows it in the limit, leaps to the limitless extent.

Maybe that's why it was a particularly exciting sight when the Sukhishvilis performed in India on the "Mahashivaratri" holiday, where they performed their fire dance right in front of the 35-meter statue of Adiyogi, the first yogi, Shiva! Shiva dances, and his dance creates and destroys the worlds.

 

Georgian dance is like that, full of energy that can destroy and create new ones.

Dancing with Shiva was an incredible synthesis of ecstatic rock and total meditative serenity, watched by a record audience of 140 million people. For comparison, one of the most-watched broadcasts, the Super Bowl, had 114 million viewers.

Additionally, 140 million people saw what "Georgian genius, covered in rock" is like, 140 million people shared Amrita from Georgian dance.

Sukhishvili has been traveling to different continents of the world since 1948, more than 200 tours, more than 19,200 performances and more than 60 million people sharing Georgian culture.

Like the Sukhishvili family, we also try to inform the whole world about Georgia. Moreover, we have united even more! Especially for the Borjomi ring, "Legend brought to life" Sukhishvili brought our culture to life once again in the background of the beautiful mountains of Georgia.

Dance tells a story; dance also tells what cannot be conveyed by language. Georgian culture is full of indescribable phenomena, so it is not surprising that dance plays a special role in our revived legend. A dance that is the way home, a dance that takes you beyond your limits, a dance that takes you to the source of life.