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Theatre, Film, and Television Biographies
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Maurice Bejart Biography (1927-)
Born Maurice Jean Berger, January 1, 1927, in Marseilles, France; son of Gaston (an educator and administrator) and Germaine (Capellieres) Berger. Addresses: Office: Bejart Ballet Lausanne, Case Postal 25, 1000 Lausanne 22,Switzerland.
- Nationality
- French
- Gender
- Male
- Occupation
- choreographer, dancer
- Birth Details
- January 1, 1927
- Marseilles, France
Famous Works
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Credits; Selected Stage Appearances
- (Principal dancer) Symphonie pour un homme seul, Theatre de l'Etoile, Paris, 1955.
- Principal dancer in La Nuit obscure (based on St. John of the Cross's Dark Night of the Soul), c. 1968. Also danced with Mona Inglesby'sInternational Ballet, Royal Swedish Ballet, and in several of his own productions.
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Credits; Selected Stage Work; Choreographer
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Symphonie pour un homme seul, Theatre de l'Etoile, Paris, 1955.
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Le Sacre du printemps (also see below), Theatre Royal de la Monnaie, Brussels, Belgium, 1959.
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Tannhauser, Brussels Opera, Brussels, 1961.
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Ninth Symphony, Cirque Royal, Brussels, 1964.
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Messe pour le temps present, Avignon Festival of the Arts, Avignon, France, 1967.
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Erotica, Bhakti, Choreographic Offering, Bach Sonata, Nomos Alpha,and Le Sacre du printemps, Brooklyn Academy of Music, Brooklyn, NY, 1971.
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Salome, Grand Theatre, Geneva, Switzerland, 1983.
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Eros Thanatos, City Center, New York City, 1983.
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Thalassa: Mare Nostrum, Herod Atticus Theatre, Athens, Greece, 1983.
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Malraux, or the Metamorphosis of the Gods, Cirque Royal, Brussels,1987.
- Also choreographer of Tales of Hoffman, 1962, The Damnation ofFaust, 1963, Per la Dolce Memoria di quel Giorno, 1974, Ce quel'amour me dit, 1974, Chants d'amour et de guerre, 1975, NotreFaust, 1975, Petrushka, 1977, Don Giovanni, produced in Geneva, 1980, The Magic Flute, 1981, History of a Soldier, 1982, Fragments, 1984, Modern No Plays by Mishima, 1984-85, The Bats, 1985, Arepo,
The Kabuki, and Martyr of St. Sebastian, all 1986. Choreographer of Le voyage,
Les noces,
Don Juan,
Bolero,
Nijinsky,
Clown of God,
L'Inconnu,
La Belle au Boa,
Voyage au coeur d'un enfant,
Haut-Voltage (based on Huis Clos by Jean-Paul Sartre), Le Teck,
Orphee,
Sonate a trois,
Promethee,
The Merry Widow,
Ode a la Joie,
Romeo and Juliet,
Prospective,
Baudeliare,
Ni fleurs ni couroness,
La tentation de St-Antoine,
A la recherche de ...,
Le marteau sans maitre,
Firebird, and La Traviata.
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Credits: Writings
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Mathilde ou le temps perdu (novel), R. Julliard, 1963.
- Also author of the play La Reine verte, 1963.
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