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Maurice Béjart

1927 - 2007

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Maurice Béjart (French: [beʒaʁ]; 1 January 1927 – 22 November 2007) was a French dancer, choreographer and opera director who ran the Béjart Ballet Lausanne in Switzerland. He developed a popular expressionistic form of modern ballet, tackling vast themes. He was awarded Swiss citizenship posthumously. Read more on Wikipedia

His biography is available in different languages on Wikipedia. Maurice Béjart is the 8th most popular dancer (up from 11th in 2019), the 554th most popular biography from France (up from 741st in 2019) and the most popular French Dancer.

Maurice Béjart is most famous for being a choreographer and director of the Ballet de l'Étoile.

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Among DANCERS

Among dancers, Maurice Béjart ranks 8 out of 116. Before him are Isadora Duncan, Rudolf Nureyev, Anna Pavlova, Josephine Baker, Vaslav Nijinsky, and Marie Taglioni. After him are Pina Bausch, Marius Petipa, Bobby Farrell, Mikhail Baryshnikov, Margot Fonteyn, and Maya Plisetskaya.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1927, Maurice Béjart ranks 24. Before him are Ram Narayan, Sidney Poitier, Antônio Carlos Jobim, Angelo Sodano, László Kubala, and Princess Joséphine Charlotte of Belgium. After him are Manfred Eigen, Martin Lewis Perl, Albert Uderzo, George Andrew Olah, John McCarthy, and Rosalynn Carter. Among people deceased in 2007, Maurice Béjart ranks 15. Before him are Ève Curie, Jean Baudrillard, Mstislav Rostropovich, Carlo Ponti, Ernst Otto Fischer, and Kai Siegbahn. After him are Marcel Marceau, Alan Ball Jr., Benazir Bhutto, Sidney Sheldon, Aden Adde, and Albert Ellis.

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In France

Among people born in France, Maurice Béjart ranks 554 out of 6,770. Before him are André Michel Lwoff (1902), Charles, Duke of Orléans (1394), Édouard Mortier, Duke of Trévise (1768), Léon Blum (1872), Isabelle Huppert (1953), and Eugène François Vidocq (1775). After him are Françoise Sagan (1935), Paul Delaroche (1797), Louis-Alexandre Berthier (1753), André Maurois (1885), Jean-Jacques Annaud (1943), and Gaspard II de Coligny (1519).

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Among DANCERS In France

Among dancers born in France, Maurice Béjart ranks 1. After him are Marius Petipa (1818), Jean-Georges Noverre (1727), Jules Perrot (1810), Liane de Pougy (1869), Pierre Beauchamp (1631), La Goulue (1866), Roland Petit (1924), Zizi Jeanmaire (1924), Arthur Saint-Léon (1821), Jean Coralli (1779), and Micheline Bernardini (1927).

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