Igor Moiseyev Ballet

The company has toured in over a hundred countries[5] and is one of the most influential[6] and acclaimed dance troupes of both Soviet and modern Russia.

When Igor Moiseyev asked for a larger building to house the studio, Stalin ordered politician Aleksandr Shcherbakov to organize headquarters for the dance company.

Thus, they began to occupy the Tchaikovsky Hall [ru], a building that was previously meant to be Vsevolod Meyerhold's new theater.

[3][18] In September 1986, tear gas was thrown at a Moiseyev Ballet performance at the Metropolitan Opera House, forcing the evacuation of 4,000 people and injuring 30.

An anonymous caller purporting to be the chairman of the Jewish Defense League, Chaim Ben Yosef, claimed responsibility, saying it was a protest on the behalf of Soviet Jews.

[19][20] In 1987, Ben Yosef and two others were arrested in relation to a series of bombings in New York, including the tear gas attack at the Moiseyev performance.

A drawing of a female dancer in a traditional Romani dress in the middle of a jump, with arms outstretched. The skirt is red and the top is pink.
A 1971 Soviet stamp depicting a dancer of the Moiseyev Ballet performing a Romani dance
2 male dancers dressed in Ukrainian-style folk clothing jump in the air. A group of female dancers, also in Ukrainian-style folk clothing, watch them from the stage.
Moiseyev dancers perform the Ukrainian dance Hopak in Rotterdam , 1960
Tchaikovsky Hall in Moscow, headquarters of the company