CONTACT ZONE

Author Maka Chkhaidze

Director David Khorbaladze

Scenography by Mishiko Sulakauri, Kato 

Gelashvili

Costumes Designe Mishiko Sulakauri, Kato 

Gelashvili

Choreographer Natia Chikvaidze, Valeria 

Khripatch, Veronika Tikhonova

Composer: Anushka Chkheidze, Nino Davadze, 

Gvantsa Enukidze

 

Cast: 

Nino Davituri, Valeria Khripatch, Mariam 

Berikelashvili, Toma

Omanadze, Tamar Chkheidze, Anna Gumeniuk, 

Gvantsa

Enukidze, Tamar Naveriani, Nina Lebesheva, Natia 

Chikvaidze

Duration: 50 min, no intermission

On tour – 16 persons

 

Genre – Inclusive dance performance

Contact Zone is an inclusive contemporary dance performance with participation of disabled 

and non-disabled artists. The piece unites three short choreographic performances, exploring

the forms of physical and spatial contact between oneself and the outside world. Through 

contemporary dance and music, the audience and the artists engage in the work, creating the 

contact zones between people and groups of people living in parallel realities otherwise 

separated from each other. “Let Me Tell You Something,” an episode choreographed by 

Valeria Khripatch on the music of Nino Davadze, tells about divergent interpretations of 

reality and about seeking a common language. In the second episode, featuring Veronika 

Tikhonova’s choreography and Anushka Chkheidze’s music, characters from different 

realities find themselves sometimes in the open spaces of the Universe, or sometimes as a 

part of a virtual game where the rules are always changing. “Lazy Jane,” combining the 

chorography of Natia Chikvaidze and the music of Gvantsa Enukidze, connects us to our 

body, identity, and internal chaos, where one voice unites with many different voices. Do we 

listen to all those voices and characters which reside within us? Can we start contact with the 

outside world without knowing the million selves we have inside?!

 

Review 

When a couple of years ago, the choreographer and researcher of inclusive art, Maka Chkhaidze founded the 

platform of inclusive ideas - InForm, the public was still less informed about the existence of this direction in 

the theater. Thus, the play "Contact Zone", which was created in collaboration with the Platform of Inclusive 

Ideas and "Open Space", contains clear and specific messages for studying the relationship between the body 

and the outside world. First of all, because dance is one of the best ways to realize inclusion and motivate 

children and adults with disabilities (as well as artists working in the field of disabilities) to come into direct 

contact with modern dance theater.

The approximately one-hour performance - "Zone of Contact" is a combination of three choreographic novellas 

that explores the forms of physical and spatial contact between bodies and the environment. The novella "I want 

to tell you something" unites Valeria Khripachi's choreography and Nino Davadze's music with the desire to 

search for the universal but distinctive "subjectivity" of bodies. which allows the participants of the play to 

realize their potential.

The composition "Supermassyuri", the choreography of which was created by Veronika Tikhonova (music by 

Anushka Chkheidze), is an attempt to connect different realities. For example, characters who have landed in 

open space from outer space "invent" various virtual games to connect with the world. Which allows the 

choreographer to add strength to the imagination and to some extent, give it a funny outlet.

Choreographer Natia Chikvaidze adapted the composition "Lazy Jane" to the music of Gvantsa Enukidze and 

dedicated it to the study of the internal state of the body, introspection; That is, to bring order to the chaos of the 

voices that sound inside a person... Director Davit Khorbaladze meaningfully connected all three choreographic 

novellas, connected them and ad