Maurice Béjart
Birthday: 1927-01-01
Place of Birth: Marseille, Bouches-du-Rhône, France
Biography: Maurice Béjart was a ballet dancer and choreographer, born in France and naturalized Swiss posthumously. Based successively in Paris, Brussels, and Lausanne, he is recognized as a choreographer, having widely toured with the ballet company he founded in Belgium in 1960, "Ballet of the 20th Century". He founded several dance schools, one of which, the Rudra School in Lausanne, is still open and is one of the most famous professional dance schools in the world. He was appointed to the Académie des Beaux Arts from 1994 until his death.
Movies
L'Amour, La Danse (Best Of)
This show allows us to rediscover Maurice Béjart's career and greatest creations. Recorded at the Pa...
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Bolero: A Global Hit
Bolero is played every 15 minutes in the world. This film tries to answer how this famous melody ins...
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The Firebird
Italian singer Mario Vanni visits the Royal Opera in Stockholm and fall in love with ballet dancer L...
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Rudolf Nureyev alla Scala
Acclaimed Ukranian dancer Svetlana Zakharova, who later became one of the youngest ballerinas in Mos...
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Ballerinaliv
Gerd Andersson and Ellen Rasch are both prima ballerinas who now look back on their rich dance lives...
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New Old
"Chronicles of the Present Times" - An experimental trilogy. New Old flows together footage from mor...
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Béjart
Maurice Béjart answers an interview about choreographic creation; it shows ballets and improvisation...
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Symphony for One Man Alone
The "Symphony for a man alone" was composed from 1949 to 1950 by Pierre Schaeffer and Pierre Henry, ...
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Un film sur quelqu'un
A documentary that pretends to be a fictional film. About the work and the life of a man, a man call...
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Mudra-Afrique
Mudra Afrique, founded in 1977 in Dakar by Léopold Sédar Senghor and Maurice Béjart, was an importan...
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Etoiles: Dancers of the Paris Opera Ballet
ETOILES: DANCERS OF THE PARIS OPERA BALLET celebrates the legacy one of the best ballet companies in...
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Queen + Béjart - Ballet For Life
Ballet For Life, which tours widely to this day, marked Queen’s collaboration with Gianni Versace an...
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Le voyageur
A castle lost in the middle of the woods. A train track cutting through the countryside. No train ev...
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Non-lieu
Doctor Hortobagy is a lonely, used old man, haunted by his memories... The German occupation, the Je...
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Le futur antérieur
Paul Géniat, television director, is brought to tear multiple photographs. The one of a boxer who, a...
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Noces de plumes
Basu calls his psychiatrist to tell him a singular adventure. In a ruined abbey, he witnesses an unu...
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Maurice Bejart's Nutcracker
The showman of 20th century choreography, Maurice Béjart, stages his distinctive rendering of the be...
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