Maurice Béjart
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.
Known for
- Apostrophes (1975)
- Le Grand Échiquier (1972)
- Le Grand Échiquier (1972)
- Dim Dam Dom (1965)
- Pour le plaisir (1964)
- La choucroute (1967)
- Non-lieu (1968)
- Le voyageur (1967)
- New Old (1979)
- Etoiles: Dancers of the Paris Opera Ballet (2001)
- Boléro, le refrain du monde (2019)
- La princesse vous demande (1969)
- Bolero: A Global Hit (2019)
- Une simple alerte (1969)
- Le futur antérieur (1967)
- Rudolf Nureyev alla Scala (2005)
- Maurice Béjart, The Art of The 20th Century ballet (1985)
- Le Tour du Monde en 80 minutes (2008)
- Béjart (1970)
- Un film sur quelqu'un (1972)