Gil Roman
Artistic Director of the Béjart Ballet Lausanne since December 2007, Gil Roman joined Maurice Béjart at the Ballet du XXe siècle in 1979, after intensive training with Marika Besobrasova, Rosella Hightower and José Ferran.
Noticed first as the lead role of Messe pour le temps futur and the role of Hanan, which he created in Dibouk, his undisputed talents as both a dancer and actor are demonstrated in an ever-growing list of ballets, in which he performs and often incarnates: Hamlet, Ring um den Ring, Mr. C, Le Mandarin merveilleux, Ballet for Life, Le Manteau, Juan y Teresa with Marie-Claude Pietragalla; Dialogue de l’ombre double, Symphonie pour un homme seul, Lumière, La mort du Tambour, Renard, Iokanaan, Six personnages en quête d’un danseur, Zarathoustra and La Vie du danseur.
In 2005, Gil Roman was the recipient of the prestigious Danza & Danza Award for Best Dancer, for his performance as Jacques Brel in Brel & Barbara. In 2006, the Monaco Dance Forum awarded him the Nijinsky Award.
Beyond his qualities as an actor (A-6-Roc, Paradoxe sur le comédien) or as a choreographer (L’Habit ne fait pas le Moine), the success of Réflexion sur Béla and other recent creations such as Echographie d’une baleine, Le Casino des Esprits, Aria, Syncope, and recently the opening of Gymnaestrada performed by Ecole-Atelier Rudra Béjart in Lausanne, the intelligence of his work paired with a relevant view on things has helped establish Gil Roman as much more than just a talented artist.
In 2011, he received ‘Il Premio internazionale alla carriera, Tenore Giuseppe Di Stefano’ at Catania, in Italy.
