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“ANTHROPOLOGY OF ANCIENT GEORGIANTHEATRE ART”Program Leader - Lamara Gongadze.Nino DarsaliaTHE CULT OF THE DEAD IN GEORGIAN PERFORMANCE ARTSummaryIn this work is discussed the ancient traditions connected to dead cult, thereare a lot of theatrical elements in it. Especially we can see it in soul taker’s job,whose duty was being the middle element between the soul and the body ofthe livings. The soul taker got in to dead soul and talked to it. The soul taker,just as an actor could appear as another person and show his fillings. He hadto perform the dead’s thoughts just as the actors do. Soul taker could performas an actor. He had to act as a dead man did, and talk with his voice.In the cult of the dead important is also the job of “crying person”. Thesecrying women retooled the dead’s life with sincere words. The crying personhad to look after their appearance too. So they were the directions and theactors at the same tome.There is also one important thing, a horse racing, that reveals close relationswith old Georgian seen — “ Berikaoba” and “Kheenoba”.For the first we can say that both performances were for everybody.It was common for both performances to walk from village to village and askfore food.Both performances needed masks, both lasted for few days.So we can say that in cold for dead, there are a lot of theatrical performances.Sopo KhachidzeTHE IDEA BEHIND STEP DANCE AND ITS DESIGNATIONSummaryThe article deals with the origin of Georgian Folk dance, the art history ofGeorgian Folk dance takes place from the primitive period of world historywhen dance was just only the part of hunting process and it did not play anyaesthetic role in the lives of the people of that period.Georgia’s choreographic past is very rich of “Perkhuli” style dances whichexpress the infinite strength of character of the Georgian people, history andspirit of ancient Georgians.There still remain the dances that are full of pagan spirit: “Lile”, “Adrekelia”,“Dala Khojas Khelgvajale”and etc.Georgian dances represent a live history book expressing the centuries ofGeorgian art, culture and tradition (hunting, wars, religion). The article alsocovers the foreign authors’ works.194 195