Sunday, September 21, 2008

Maurice Bejart





Maurice Bejart (Maurice Berger) 1927-2007

dancer, choreographer,director of ballets. Called "genius of ballet of 20th century".In 1960 he founded the Ballet du XXe Siecle.

In his unusually big production- over two hundred choreographic jobs,it is possible to find four most important topics: love, death, travel, ceremony.

Love: in Bejart ballets is gaining the symbolic dimension. The choreographer is giving up romantic way of depicting love concentrating on a few different aspects of love: mythical, metaphysical,Death: usually is introducted in gratesque way.Travel: in his ballets it is crossing the borders, both in the literal meaning - geographical, as well as in the symbolic way -mental and cultural.Ceremony:the choreographer is appealing to the genesis of the dance to its ritual roots.


Maurice BĂ©jart became famous as the choreographerwho is concentrating on the dancer and male corps de ballet, showing off both, the beauty of the male body, and the personality and charisma of the dancer.

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