{"id":903,"date":"2016-05-18T15:01:33","date_gmt":"2016-05-18T13:01:33","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.bejart.ch\/en\/?page_id=903"},"modified":"2019-06-07T12:44:17","modified_gmt":"2019-06-07T10:44:17","slug":"maurice-bejart","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/www.bejart.ch\/en\/company\/maurice-bejart\/","title":{"rendered":"Maurice B\u00e9jart"},"content":{"rendered":"

From Les Ballets de l\u2019Etoile in Paris in 1955 to the creation of the B\u00e9jart Ballet Lausanne in 1987, the choreographer has marked Dance for ever.<\/strong><\/p>\n

Maurice B\u00e9jart is born in Marseille on January 1, 1927. He begins his career in Vichy in 1946, continues with Janine Charrat, Roland Petit and especially in London as part of the International Ballet. During a tour in Sweden with the Cullberg Ballet (1949), he discovers the resources of choreographic expressionism. A Swedish film project confronts him for the first time with Stravinsky, but back in Paris, he gathers choreographic experience with compositions by Chopin, with support of the critic Jean Laurent. From now on the dancer is doubled as a choreographer.<\/p>\n

<\/p>\n

In 1955, he confirms his thinking outside the box with the choreography of Symphonie pour un homme seul<\/em>, performed by his company, Les Ballets de l’Etoile. Noticed by Maurice Huisman, the new director of the Th\u00e9\u00e2tre Royal de la Monnaie, in Brussels, he creates a triumphant The Rite of Spring<\/em><\/a> (1959).<\/p>\n

In 1960 Maurice B\u00e9jart launches, in Brussels, Le Ballet du XXe Si\u00e8cle, an international company touring around the world, and the number of his creations is steadily increasing: Bol\u00e9ro<\/em><\/a> (1961), Messe pour le temps pr\u00e9sent<\/em> (1967) and The Firebird<\/em><\/a>\u00a0(1970).<\/p>\n

In 1987, Le Ballet du XXe Si\u00e8cle becomes the B\u00e9jart Ballet Lausanne and the great choreographer settles in the Olympic capital. In 1992, he decides to downsize his company to about thirty dancers to “recapture the essence of the performer” and he founds the Ecole-Atelier Rudra B\u00e9jart. Among the many ballets for this company, we find Le Mandarin merveilleux<\/em><\/a>, King Lear – Prospero<\/em>, \u00c0 propos de Sh\u00e9h\u00e9razade<\/em>, Ballet for Life<\/em><\/a>, MutationX<\/em>, La Route de la soie<\/em>, Le Manteau<\/em><\/a>, Enfant-Roi<\/em>, La Lumi\u00e8re des eaux <\/em>and Lumi\u00e8re<\/em>.
\nAs well as directing plays (La Reine verte<\/em>, Casta Diva<\/em>, Cinq N\u00f4 modernes<\/em>, A-6-Roc<\/em>), operas (Salom\u00e9<\/em>, La Traviata<\/em> and Don Giovanni<\/em>) and films (Bhakti<\/em>, Paradoxe sur le com\u00e9dien…<\/em>), Maurice B\u00e9jart has also published several books (novels, memories, a personal diary and a play). In 2007, on the eve of his eightieth birthday, the choreographer creates La Vie du danseur racont\u00e9e par Zig et Puce<\/em>. While working on what will be his last creation, Le Tour du Monde en 80 minutes<\/em><\/a>, Maurice B\u00e9jart passed away in Lausanne on November 22, 2007.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

From Les Ballets de l\u2019Etoile in Paris in 1955 to the creation of the B\u00e9jart Ballet Lausanne in 1987, the choreographer has marked Dance for ever. Maurice B\u00e9jart is born in Marseille on January 1, 1927. He begins his career in Vichy in 1946, continues with Janine Charrat, Roland Petit and especially in London as […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"parent":904,"menu_order":49,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"page-image.php","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-903","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bejart.ch\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/903","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bejart.ch\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bejart.ch\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bejart.ch\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bejart.ch\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=903"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.bejart.ch\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/903\/revisions"}],"up":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bejart.ch\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/904"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bejart.ch\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=903"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}