Tinatin Tsuladze

Country: Georgia
Tbilisi International Festival of Theatre

Biography

My name is Tina Tsuladze, and I’m 30 years old, from Tbilisi, Georgia. I was raised in a family of artists, so it’s not surprising that I’m also in this industry. I was a member of the Georgian National Ballet Sukhishvili for 8 years. I studied contemporary dance at the Tanecní Centrum Prague for a year, and afterward, I took a one-year course at the Broadway Dance Center in New York.
My entire life, I grew up in theatre and always wanted to make it a central part of my journey. This led me to develop an interest in theatre choreography. I worked with several directors as a movement director, and in 2022, I created an independent play called “Market”. With this play, my friend and I opened our own independent theatre. Now, several years later, I’ve created a new play called Family in collaboration with my dear friend, who is also a choreographer, and with a wonderful team of actors. Physical theatre is not very common in our country, and we’ve been experimenting with new ways to communicate without words—only through our bodies. It has been a truly wonderful journey.

THE FAMILY

Concept of the Performance:
A young couple prepares to meet the man’s family, unaware that this visit will unravel their relationship. Around them, relatives and neighbors live within their own illusions — a controlling mother who dictates everyone’s choices, a weak father unable to resist her, and a society obsessed with appearances. The story explores love, violence, and the distortion of truth in the digital age, where lives are staged for social media and reality hides behind a flawless façade.
Inspired by the harsh realities of Georgia, where women often face abuse and silencing, the play reveals how violence seeps into everyday life, disguised as normality. As the naive girl seeks love and belonging, she encounters indifference, manipulation, and betrayal. Meanwhile, one character relentlessly posts her “perfect” life online, reflecting a generation that performs happiness while everything around them quietly collapses.

Artistic Statement 
This idea originated from the harsh realities of violence in our country, Georgia. Women, especially transgender women, are often subjected to abuse, with many incidents even resulting in their deaths. Beyond physical violence, there are many forms of humiliation, control, and silence that define everyday life. I felt compelled to confront this reality through theatre — a space where the body can speak what society prefers to hide.
Family was created to reveal how violence disguises itself as care, how manipulation lives inside affection, and how cruelty hides behind love. I wanted to place the audience inside an ordinary home and let them witness the invisible mechanisms of abuse that shape our relationships. By combining movement, silence, and physical tension, the performance transforms familiar domestic scenes into acts of resistance — exposing the truth we often choose not to see.

Trailer 
https://drive.google.com/file/d/1U5MtguT7Whxgyxi735VAssW9lnj9GGUv/view?usp=drive_link