Maurice Béjart Trailers
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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.
Most Popular Maurice Béjart Trailers
Total trailers found: 29
01 January 2005
Acclaimed Ukranian dancer Svetlana Zakharova, who later became one of the youngest ballerinas in Moscow’s Bolshoi Ballet, stars in the title role of the famed Romantic ballet «Giselle,» recorded at the Teatro alla Scalla in Milan in April 2005.
11 August 1952
Italian singer Mario Vanni visits the Royal Opera in Stockholm and fall in love with ballet dancer Linda Corina.
21 November 1979
"Chronicles of the Present Times" - An experimental trilogy. New Old flows together footage from more than a decade of his wandering between scenes, sets, and drugs, an accelerated world tour through various iterations of the counterculture.
01 January 2019
Bolero is played every 15 minutes in the world. This film tries to answer how this famous melody inspired and influenced the world pop-culture? It explores the complexity and the richness of a piece so simple in appearance: the emotions it triggers, vertigo it creates, the words it inspires.
01 January 2014
Experience the Béjart Ballet Lausanne in four masterpieces by the French choreographer and ballet company founder Maurice Béjart in the magical setting of the château de Versailles.
01 January 2000
The showman of 20th century choreography, Maurice Béjart, stages his distinctive rendering of the beloved Christmas ballet "The Nutcracker" using Tchaikovsky's entire score, supplemented with waltz and accordion music performed onstage by the renowned Yvette Horner.
14 March 2001
ETOILES: DANCERS OF THE PARIS OPERA BALLET celebrates the legacy one of the best ballet companies in the world by weaving together rehearsals, tour snapshots and performances of classical ballets such as Swan Lake and La Sylphide, as well as contemporary works such as Maurice Bejart's Ninth Symphony, Jiri Kylian's Doux Mensonge (Sweet Lies) and Pierre Darde's Orison.
16 May 1970
Maurice Béjart answers an interview about choreographic creation; it shows ballets and improvisations.
08 July 1981
In May 1664, Louis XIV celebrated the completion of major expansion work at Versailles. For the occasion, the king called on Molière's talent to compose these evenings for the court and the comedians.
09 December 1957
The "Symphony for a man alone" was composed from 1949 to 1950 by Pierre Schaeffer and Pierre Henry, and then finalised in 12 movements by Pierre Henry in 1951.
31 May 2005
This show allows us to rediscover Maurice Béjart's career and greatest creations. Recorded at the Palais des Sports on May 31st and June 1st 2005.
08 December 2015
The first-ever recording on film of Maurice Béjart's Ninth Symphony! Fifty years after its premiere, the Tokyo Ballet and Béjart Ballet Lausanne present Maurice Béjart’s groundbreaking choreography to Beethoven’s Symphony No.
06 November 2004
Gerd Andersson and Ellen Rasch are both prima ballerinas who now look back on their rich dance lives and their collaborations with various choreographers.
09 May 1969
Salome was the daughter of Herod II and Herodias. According to the New Testament, the daughter of Herodias demanded and received the head of John the Baptist.
21 August 1972
A documentary that pretends to be a fictional film. About the work and the life of a man, a man called Pierre Henry at the beginning of the film and who ends up calling himself "someone".
17 April 2026
His voice, his gaze, and his movement rescue Jorge Donn from oblivion. Drawing on an intense archive, the film reconstructs a unique life: a journey through his glory alongside Béjart, his tragic fate, and a body that never ceased to shine.
01 January 1968
Doctor Hortobagy is a lonely, used old man, haunted by his memories... The German occupation, the Jews, a denunciation.
01 January 1967
A castle lost in the middle of the woods. A train track cutting through the countryside. No train ever stops at the tiny station that serves the castle.
01 January 1967
Paul Géniat, television director, is brought to tear multiple photographs. The one of a boxer who, at the exact same time, collapses on the ring, dead.
06 September 2019
Ballet For Life, which tours widely to this day, marked Queen’s collaboration with Gianni Versace and the choreographer Maurice Béjart.
01 January 1969
Basu calls his psychiatrist to tell him a singular adventure. In a ruined abbey, he witnesses an unusual wedding in the presence of a tribunal.
01 January 1975
Devotion ("bhakti") is a way of communicating with the Divine. Béjart's work interprets the concept through dance.
