Michigan Ballet Academy

Coming up this Monday, join us as we welcome master teacher, Nikoloz Makhateli, back into the studios! 🥳🥳

Classes will run 4:45 - 7:15 pm, Monday, Tuesday, Thursday, and Friday, and private lesson time slots are available. Contact [email protected] or visit our website to get registered today!

We are so excited to welcome back Peter LeBreton Merz to MBA this summer!! 🥳🥳☀️

You can still register for our Summer Intensive at michiganballet.org and watch your dancing grow in an environment of challenge and encouragement.

Join us!


📸Lynell Miller

Join us as we welcome back to MBA the week of June 22nd!! Nikoloz will be taking over June Drop-in Classes for the Intermediate/Advanced level all 4 days, as well as offering private lessons to interested students. Dancers should contact [email protected] to get scheduled!

Nikoloz Makhateli was a Principal Dancer for 26 years with the National Opera and Ballet Theater of Georgia USSR. He was trained at the State Choreographic Institute of Georgia. There as a protégé of famed Kirov dancer Vakhtang Chabukiani, he studied the complete eight-year Vaganova syllabus. From 1970-75 he studied at the Tbilisi State College of Theatrical Arts receiving his masters degree in ballet instruction, coaching, and choreography. He later studied choreography in St. Petersburg at the Vaganova Ballet Academy, learning the entire Petipa repertoire under Oleg Vinogradov former Artistic Director of the Kirov (Mariinsky) Ballet.
Nikoloz Makhateli was appointed Ballet Master of Maurice Bejart' school MUDRA Afrique created by Maurice Bejart, President Leopold Sedar Senghor and the UNESCO
In 1983 Mr. Makhateli was named an Honored Artist of the Georgian Republic, in 2000 Mr Makhateli
Recipient of the “Order of the Mark of Distinction“ The highest order of the Georgian Republic,
as a principal dancer and ballet professor. He spent nine years as chairman of the Choreography Department of The Fine Arts College of Georgia. For the past twelve years, Mr. Makhateli has been in the United States, teaching nationally and internationally, as well as coaching many award winning young dancers throughout America. Prior to joining KAB’s faculty, Mr. Makhateli spent the last five years as a ballet instructor for the New Orleans Center of Cultural Arts.
Mr. Makhateli and his wife Marina are the proud parents of former Royal Ballet principal David Makhateli and Dutch National Ballet principal Maia Makhateli, both of whom began their training with their parents at the State Choreographic Institute in Tbilisi, Georgia.

Join us tomorrow at the East Grand Rapids Performing Arts Center to celebrate the end of another incredible year!

Dancers at all levels will participate in an informal performance to acknowledge all of their hard work this school year and how far they have come.

Doors open at 5 pm and tickets are just $10! Tickets are available now at michiganballet.org and all proceeds go directly to theater rental costs 💜✨️

See you there!

Deos Contemporary Ballet is thrilled to share the work of Michigan Ballet Academy, our official partner school. The mission of the Michigan Ballet Academy is to provide world class ballet training using a codified curriculum taught by professionally trained faculty in an atmosphere of equity, challenge, encouragement, and integrity.

The staff, leadership, and Board of Directors of MBA inspire us through their commitment to the whole dance student’s success. Learn more about Michigan Ballet Academy at deosballet.com/michigan-ballet-academy 🔗

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Happy June 1st!!

As we open a new month, we also begin our June Semester 💜✨️ Make sure you check your dancer's class schedule online, as some class times have changed!

See you at the studio..