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Béjart

American  
[bey-zhar] / beɪˈʒar /

noun

  1. Maurice Maurice Berger, 1927–2007, French ballet dancer and choreographer.


Béjart British  
/ beʒar /

noun

  1. Maurice (mɔris). 1927–2007 French dancer and choreographer. His choreography is characterized by a combination of classic and modern dance and acrobatics

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She brought her work to the Washington Ballet and collaborated with choreographers Maurice Béjart and Jennifer Muller/The Works.

From Los Angeles Times • Nov. 11, 2024

At Béjart Ballet Lausanne in Switzerland, the 22-year-old nonbinary dancer Leroy Mokgatle recently performed a solo on pointe created for a woman.

From New York Times • Apr. 19, 2022

In 1961 she worked with Maurice Béjart and his Ballets of the 20th Century, choreographing “Les Quatre Fils Aymon” with him.

From New York Times • Sep. 1, 2017

It performed 65 ballets by Balanchine, Jerome Robbins and Maurice Béjart, and played a major role in preserving the Balanchine tradition.

From New York Times • Sep. 21, 2016

There were now four ladies, Madeleine Béjart, Geneviève Béjart, Duparc, and Debrie; the two brothers Béjart—the youngest, Louis, had joined at Lyons—Duparc, Debrie, Dufresne, and Croisac making, with Molière himself, eleven persons.

From The Great Events by Famous Historians, Volume 11 by Johnson, Rossiter