{"id":12804,"date":"2018-04-26T12:32:03","date_gmt":"2018-04-26T10:32:03","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.bejart.ch\/?p=12804"},"modified":"2018-08-29T15:41:34","modified_gmt":"2018-08-29T13:41:34","slug":"a-tribute-to-fons-goris","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.bejart.ch\/en\/a-tribute-to-fons-goris\/","title":{"rendered":"A Tribute to Fons Goris"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"venobox bbl-image\" href=\"https:\/\/www.bejart.ch\/wp-content\/uploads\/fons-goris_ecole-atelier-rudra-bejart-lausanne.jpeg\" class=\"fresco\" data-fresco-caption=\"\" data-fresco-options=\"thumbnails:false\" ><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"img-responsive img-content wp-image-12808 size-large\" src=\"https:\/\/www.bejart.ch\/wp-content\/uploads\/\/fons-goris_ecole-atelier-rudra-bejart-lausanne-800x590.jpeg\" alt=\"\" width=\"800\" height=\"590\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.bejart.ch\/wp-content\/uploads\/fons-goris_ecole-atelier-rudra-bejart-lausanne-800x590.jpeg 800w, https:\/\/www.bejart.ch\/wp-content\/uploads\/fons-goris_ecole-atelier-rudra-bejart-lausanne-400x295.jpeg 400w, https:\/\/www.bejart.ch\/wp-content\/uploads\/fons-goris_ecole-atelier-rudra-bejart-lausanne.jpeg 992w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Fons Goris was a man of culture who felt passionately about theater and Japanese tradition. He was a stage director, a generous pedagogue and a fine dialectician with outstanding human qualities. He will leave an indelible mark on the history of the th\u00e9\u00e2tre en Flandre and Mudra\u2014the dance school Maurice B\u00e9jart opened while directing the Ballet du XXe si\u00e8cle in Brussels.<\/p>\n<p>From its beginnings in 1970, to the inauguration of Mudra-Dakar, up until the choreographer\u2019s departure to Lausanne in 1987, Fons Goris has enriched students\u2019 training by teaching performing arts, his life\u2019s work and passion. He passed away last week at the age of 88 and was laid to rest at the Keerbergen Cemetery in Belgium where his ashes were interred on April 25th.<\/p>\n<p>Gil Roman and the B\u00e9jart Ballet Lausanne share in the deep grief felt by his wife and kids and extend their deepest sympathies and most sincere condolences.<\/p>\n<h5>\u00a9DR &#8211;\u00a0Work presentation at \u00c9cole-Atelier Rudra B\u00e9jart Lausanne (Lausanne, 1994): from left to right, Fons Goris, Michel Gascard (EARBL&#8217;s director), Maurice B\u00e9jart and Alain Louafi (EARBL&#8217;s acting professor at that time)<\/h5>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&nbsp; Fons Goris was a man of culture who felt passionately about theater and Japanese tradition. He was a stage director, a generous pedagogue and a fine dialectician with outstanding human qualities. He will leave an indelible mark on the history of the th\u00e9\u00e2tre en Flandre and Mudra\u2014the dance school Maurice B\u00e9jart opened while directing [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":8,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"wds_primary_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-12804","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bejart.ch\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12804","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bejart.ch\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bejart.ch\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bejart.ch\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/8"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bejart.ch\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=12804"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.bejart.ch\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12804\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bejart.ch\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=12804"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bejart.ch\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=12804"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bejart.ch\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=12804"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}