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Le Presbytère. Ballet for life

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Maurice Béjart's "Le Presbytère. Ballet for life" will be performed at the Festival Ljubljana.

A little over thirty years ago, against the backdrop of the surprising music of Berlioz interspersed with bombing and the sound of machine guns, an unconventional Friar Lawrence cried out to Jorge Donn and Hitomi Asakawa: "Make love, not war!"


Today, Gil Roman, who is about the same age as the creation of my Romeo and Juliet, surrounded by dancers who have never seen this ballet, answers: "You told us to make love, not war. We made love. Why is love waging war on us?" A cry from the youth, for whom the problem of death by love is added to that of the multiple wars that have never ceased in the world since the so‐called END of the last World War!
Above all, my ballets are encounters: with music, with life, with death, with love… with all those whose life and works find a renewal within me. Moreover, the dancer who I am no longer is reincarnated each time by the dancers who surpass this former self.


A love affair with the music by Queen. Invention, violence, humor, love: it’s all there. I love the group. They inspire me and guide me, sometimes through this no man’s land where we will all go one day and where, I am sure, Freddie Mercury is playing a duet on the piano with Mozart. A ballet about youth and hope, as hopeless and optimistic as they are. Despite everything, I believe that “the show must go on”, as Queen put it in one of their songs.

Maurice Béjart, 1997 



 

Béjart Ballet Lausanne
Artistic leader: Gil Roman
Music: Queen, Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart
Choreography: Maurice Bejart
Costumes: Gianni Versace
Lighting: Clément Cayrol
Video editing: Germaine Cohen

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