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Maurice Béjart (born January 1, 1927) is the French choreographer who runs the Béjart Ballet.
He was born in Marseille, France and founded the Ballet de l' Etoile company in 1954. In 1960 he founded the Ballet du XXe Siècle in Brussels and in 1987 moved to Lausanne in Switzerland, where he founded Béjart Ballet.
External links
- Official biography (http://bejart.ch/fr/bejart/bio.htm) (in French).
- Biography (http://www.inamori-f.or.jp/KyotoPrizes/contents_e/laureates/profile/co_15infmaurice.html)