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)

Roles and parts in the 2025/26 season
Marie and female solo "The Chinese bird" in The Nutcracker (John Neumeier)
Scottish couple Pas de deux in La Sylphide (Piere Lacotte after Filippo Taglioni)
Butterfly in Illusions – like Swan Lake (John Neumeier)

Giselle (Peter Wright after Coralli/Perrot/Petipa)
Blake Works I (William Forsythe), as part of the Waves and Circles triple bill
Bella Figura (Jiří Kylián), as part of theWings of Memory Triple Bill
Cacti (Alexander Ekman), as part of the Common Ground triple bill
IMPASSE (Johan Inger), as part of the Common Ground triple bill
Onegin (John Cranko)
Lady of the Camellias (John Neumeier)
Grand Pas Classique from Paquita (Marius Petipa), as part of the Konstellationen multiple bill


Previous roles and parts
Scottish Couple Pas de deux in La Sylphide (Pierre Lacotte after Filippo Taglioni)
Pas de six in Giselle (Peter Wright after Coralli/Perrot/Petipa)
Butterfly in Illusionen – wie Schwanensee (John Neumeier)

Onegin (John Cranko)
Bella Figura (Jiří Kylián), as part of theWings of Memory Triple Bill