Lizi Avsajanishvili

Demi-Soloist

Born in Georgia, Lizi trained with Nina Ananiashvili at the State Ballet School «Vakhtang Chabukiani» in Tbilisi (2011-2016) and with Ludmila Kovaleva at the Vaganova Academy in St. Petersburg (2016-2020). She received a Gold Medal at the Eva Evdokimova Memorial Educational Ballet Competition in Tokyo in 2017, the Third Prize at the 2018 Vaganova Competition in St. Petersburg and was invited to take part in the Prix de Lausanne in 2020. She joined the ballet company at Mariinsky Theatre in St. Petersburg in 2020 and moved on to Staatsballett Berlin in 2022, where she performed in Alexander Ekman's Cacti, Christian Spuck's Messa da Requiem and Marco Goecke's Petrushka, among others. In the 2024/25 season, she joined Bayerisches Staatsballett as a demi-soloist.

(Information as of March 2025)

Featured roles in the 2024/25 season
Scottish Couple Pas de deux in La Sylphide (Pierre Lacotte after Filippo Taglioni)
Pas de six in Giselle (Peter Wright after Coralli/Perrot/Petipa)
Dancer in Bella Figura (Jiří Kylián), as part of theWings of Memory Triple Bill
Butterfly in Illusionen – wie Schwanensee (John Neumeier)

Other productions ins the 2024/25 season
Onegin (John Cranko)