Throughout the 20th century, most of the great European opera houses presented classical ballet as a quintessentially 19th-century art form. But if one European artist should receive the principal ...

Legendary ballet choreographer Maurice Bejart received a final curtain call four days after his death, as friends and family gathered for a farewell ceremony in Lausanne overnight. The curtain rose ...

LAUSANNE, Switzerland — Maurice Bejart, who sought to bring ballet to younger audiences with his provocative choreography, stunning critics with his avant-garde dances, died Thursday, his ballet ...

French choreographer Maurice Bejart has died at the age of 80, according to an official from the ballet company in the Swiss city of Lausanne which he ran for 20 years. "We are informing the dancers.

Maurice Bejart - who sought to bring ballet to younger audiences with his provocative choreography, stunning critics with his avant-garde dances - died Thursday, his ballet company said. He was 80.

Maurice Bejart, for four decades an extraordinarily innovative and influential choreographer and company leader in Europe who often received critical scorn in the English-speaking world, has died. He ...

LAUSANNE, Switzerland — Maurice Bejart — who sought to bring ballet to younger audiences with his provocative choreography, stunning critics with his avant-garde dances — died Thursday, his ballet ...

LAUSANNE, Switzerland–Maurice Bejart – who sought to bring ballet to younger audiences with provocative choreography and stunned critics with avant-garde dances – died yesterday. He was 80. Bejart, ...

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Maurice Béjart , the French choreographer who died yesterday aged 80, was a provocative populist in ballet whose fanatical supporters were equalled by those who believed he was a poseur - among whom ...