Name Asaf Messerer Role Ballet Dancer | Spouse Anel Sudakevich (m. 1933) Children Boris Messerer | |
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Died March 7, 1992, Moscow, Russia Books Classes in Classical Ballet Siblings Sulamith Messerer, Rachel Messerer Similar People Sulamith Messerer, Maya Plisetskaya, Rachel Messerer, Mikhail Plisetski, Anel Sudakevich | ||
Asaf messerer russian documentary 1989
Asaf Mikhailovich Messerer (Russian: Асаф Михайлович Мессерер, November 19, 1903 - March 7, 1992) was a Lithuanian Jewish and Soviet ballet dancer and ballet teacher. He was born in Vilnius, Lithuania. From 1919 until 1921 he trained as a dancer at the Bolshoi Ballet School under Mikhail Mordkin. He then joined the Bolshoi Theatre, where he became a successful soloist, eventually becoming their chief soloist, a post he retired from in 1954.
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Today Messerer is best remembered as a choreographer and an instructor; he was both the choreographer and ballet master for the Bolshoi Theatre. His book Classes in Classical Ballet is a thorough study of proper ballet technique and is still used today.
Messerer was the brother of Sulamith Messerer. He was married to silent film star, Anel Sudakevich (Russian: Анель Судакевич), son - Boris Messerer (Russian: Борис Мессерер). He won multiple awards from the USSR and from Lithuania.
Asaf Messerer 80th Birthday Gala Vasiliev Lavrovsky Maximova 1982
