Messerer, Sulamith Mikhaylovna

Messerer, Sulamith Mikhaylovna
▪ 2005

      Russian-born ballet dancer and teacher (b. Aug. 27, 1908, Moscow, Russia—d. June 3, 2004, London, Eng.), devoted her life to the Bolshoi Ballet as a student, prima ballerina, teacher, choreographer, and artistic ambassador until she defected to the West (1980); she then settled in London, where she remained a guest teacher with the Royal Ballet School. A vibrant and athletic dancer, Messerer joined the Bolshoi Ballet School in 1920. She abruptly moved up from the corps de ballet in 1926 when she substituted for an injured soloist, and within three years she was one of the Bolshoi's leading dancers. In the 1930s she was allowed to travel outside the Soviet Union with her brother and frequent partner, Asaf (who also became a teacher), and in the early 1960s she was sent to Tokyo to found the first ballet school in Japan. Messerer was awarded the Stalin Prize in 1946 and was declared a People's Artist of the Russian S.F.S.R. in 1962. In 2000 Messerer was made OBE.

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