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Thursday, November 22, 2007

Choreographer Maurice Béjart Dies

"Just one month before his swan song Around the World in Eighty Days was set to premiere, a spokesperson for Béjart Ballet Lausanne announced that Maurice Béjart died in a Lausanne hospital Thursday." -- Deutsche Welle, 11/22/2007

Read the story here.

Update:

The New York Times reports today that the Alvin Ailey American Dance Theater's upcoming season, starting November 28, will open with a tribute to Béjart and the company premiere of Firebird (1970), the first complete Béjart ballet to be staged by an American dance company.
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