Andrey Klemm is teacher at Opera National de Paris with Russian background.
Born in Moscow in 1967, he studied at Bolshoi Ballet Academy in Moscow with Professor Alexander Bondarenko. He graduated in 1985 with special distinction (red diploma).
The same year, at the invitation of director Natalia Kasatkina and Vladimir Vasiliev, he began his career as dancer at the Moscow Classical Ballet as a soloist until 1994. During this period, he was taught by master teacher Naum Azarin-Messerer.
Between 1992 and 1994 he studied to be a dance teacher at the Russia Institute of Theatre Arts (GITIS).
From 1994 to 1997 he was engaged as a dancer at the Bonn Opera House (Opera der Stadt Bonn). With Valery Panov as director.
From 1996 Mr. Andrey Klemm began teaching masterclasses in the United States (New York, Chicago, Detroit, etc.)
In 1997 he joined the Berlin State Opera (Staatsballett Berlin, formerly Deutsche Staatsoper) as a dancer, before working as a teacher and ballet master from 2001 to 2007.
At the same time, between 2001 and 2006, he successfully completed professorship studies at the Natalia Nesterova University of Moscow, with Professor Anatoly Borzov.
In 2007 Mr. Andrey Klemm was appointed ballet professor at the Opera national de Paris.
Mr. Andrey Klemm is also guest teacher, among others, at the Bolshoi Theater, Stuttgart Ballet, the Saxon State Opera in Dresden, Dusseldorf Opera House, the Dutch National Opera, the New National Theatre in Tokyo, the Vienna State Opera, the Royal Opera House in London, and the Tanztheater Wuppertal Pina Bausch.
His repertoire includes ballets by Marius Petipa, Lev Ivanov, Natalia Kasatkina, Vladimir Vassiliev, Pierre Lacotte, Valery Panov, Yury Vamos, George Balanchine, Maurice Bejart, Rudolf Nureyev, Roland Petit, Kenneth McMillan, Alberto Alonso, Patrice Bart, John Neumeier and Mats Ek.