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Michael Messerer has achieved international renown not only as a teacher.

LA Dance Chronicle on the US tour of the Mikhailovsky Ballet

The British Daily Mail gave a five-star rating to our ‘Tosca’ performed by the Mikhailovsky Opera on tour in Dublin.

PANDORA BEAUMONT considers Mikhail Messerer's spectacular new staging of Rostislav Zakharov's historical ballet.

The Mikhailovsky Theatre’s production gives a 21st-century look to a classic 20th-century ballet.

Although Sergei Prokofiev’s Cinderella must rank (alongside his Romeo and Juliet) amongst the most melodious and fanciful of all 20th Century ballet scores, I must confess that the ballet itself has never counted amongst my favourites.

Russian ballet guru Mikhail Messerer takes an 1812 Grimm’s fairy tale and turns it into breathtaking art.

“The ballet is the setting for some of the most sophisticated choreography, and the Mikhailovsky dancers address it with joyous precision.” The Guardian newspaper covers Mikhail Messerer’s revised version of the legendary ballet.

The Mikhailovsky Ballet is on its first United States tour and is now at the David H. Koch Theater at Lincoln Center through November 23. The Company features several of Russia's greatest dancers: Natalia Osipova and Ivan Vasiliev, formerly of the Bolshoi Ballet, and Leonid Sarafanov, formerly of the Mariinsky. It will surely conquer New York City and Los Angeles, and soon the rest of the world.

For the ballet to work it has to be danced with conviction and joy, and this is what the Mikhailovsky pulls off marvelously well.

The Mikhailovsky Theatre has opened the new season with a ballet ‘triptych’. No anthems were sung and no speeches given before the curtain rose on the first production of the new theatrical year. Instead, without the slightest fuss, the theatre launched straight into a première. The legendary Class Concert, with choreography by Asaf Messerer, has been brought to the Mikhailovsky stage by the heir to that dancing dynasty, Mikhail Messerer.

It is over half a century since Russia first welcomed Frederick Ashton’s La Fille mal gardée when it arrived as part of the repertory in The Royal Ballet’s inaugural visit to Leningrad with a performance held during the White Nights, on 15 June 1961, the year following its premiere in London. Ashton recalled that the ballet was received by the Russians as ‘a triumph’. ‘They just wouldn’t stop clapping’, he told a friend on his return home.