Date&Time

Oct. 13th (Fri) 8pm

Oct. 14th (Sat) 8pm

Oct. 15th (Sun) 3:30pm

Venue

Guangming Culture & Art Centre

Repertoire Introduction

Tous les hommes presque toujours s'imaginent

Choreography/Gil Roman

Music/John Zorn

Scenario and videos collaborator/Marc Hollogne

Costumes design/Henri Davila

Lighting design/Dominique Roman

Premiere: Opéra de Lausanne, April 52019 

John Zorn is one of the leading composers of contemporary American music. January 2016, the Village, New York. The two artists exchange for the first timeabout their respective artistic experiences, cultural heritage, and desire to transcend it and free themselves from it in order to push back the boundaries ofart. Naturally, Gil Roman shares with him his desire to use his music for one of his ballets. 

Liebe und Tod 

Choreography/Maurice Béjart

Music/Gustav Mahler

Costumes design/Henri Davila

Lighting design/Dominique Roman

Premiere: Bunka Kaikan Theatre, Tokyo, April 14, 2002

Revival: Petit Theatre, Verone, October 19, 2013 

Maurice Béjart created many ballets to the music of Gustav Mahler: Le chant du compagnon errant, Ce que l'Amour me dit, Ce que la Mort me dit, Adagietto,A force de partir je suis reste chez moi....

In Liebe und Tod the choreographer takes a song already made to dance, Where the beautiful trumpets blow, with a new creation for Gil Roman: The Death ofthe Drum. The latter is choreographed to Der Tamboursg'sell, another Mahler song from the collection Des Knaben Wunderhorn. 

Bhakti III 

Choreography/Maurice Béjart

Music/traditional Indian music

Decor and costumes/Germinal Casado 

"Through love, the worshipper identifies with the divinity and experiences each time the legend of his god, who is himself only one of the faces of reality andnameless.

Shiva, the third person of the Hindu trinity (Brahma, Vishnu, Shiva). 

God of destruction (which is mainly the destruction of the illusion of personality). God of dance. His wife Shakti is nothing other than his life energy, whichemanates from him and returns to him, motionless yet eternally in motion."

- Maurice Béjart, 1968

Boléro 

Choreography/Maurice Béjart

Music/Maurice Ravel

Stage design & Costumes/Maurice Béjart

Lighting design/Dominique Roman

Premiere/Théâtre Royal de la Monnaie,Brussels–January 

10,1961 Ballet du XXe siècle

Performed and praised all over the world for more than half a century, Boléro is an absolute must. A classic in the modern passing of time. Without furtherdescribing a ballet that needs no introduction, let us simply point out that Maurice Béjart returns to the spirit of the Rite of Spring in a very different style. Inthis sense, unlike most artists who have illustrated Boléro choreographically before him, he spurns the easy choices of a picturesque exterior to simply – butso forcefully – express the essential. 

Artist Lineup

Béjart Ballet Lausanne 

Since its inception in 1987, Béjart Ballet Lausanne is a reference in the choreographic world. Chosen as his successor by Maurice Béjart, Gil Roman isleading the Company and preserving its artistic excellence, since the disappearance of the Master in 2007. Maurice Béjart always wanted to open the worldof ballet to a larger audience. Animated by the same spirit, Gil Roman and his dancers perform all over the world. Béjart Ballet Lausanne is one of thevery few companies able to fill vast spaces such as the NHK Hall of Tokyo, the Kremlin State Palace of Moscow, Odeon of Herodes Atticus in Athens, thePalais des congrès de Paris. 

Maurice Béjart

Founder and former artistic director of Béjart Ballet Lausanne 

Maurice Béjart was born in Marseille on January 1, 1927. He began his career in Vichy in 1946. In 1960 Maurice Béjart launched, in Brussels, Le Ballet du XXe Siècle.In 1987, Le Ballet du XXe Siècle became the Béjart Ballet Lausanne. From LesBallets de l’Etoile in Paris in 1955 to the creation of the Béjart Ballet Lausanne in1987, the choreographer had marked Dance forever. While working on what would behis last creation, Le Tour du Monde en 80 minutes, Maurice Béjart passed away inLausanne on November 22, 2007. 

Gil Roman

The artistic director of Béjart Ballet Lausannez 

After intensive training with Marika Besobrasova, Rosella Hightower, and JoséFerran, Gil Roman joined Maurice Béjart at Le Ballet du XXe Siècle in 1979. Afterhaving performed Béjart's most renowned ballets for more than thirty years, thechoreographer appointed him as his successor and Artistic Director of the BéjartBallet Lausanne in 2007. In 2015, Gil Roman received the insignia of Knight of theNational Order of Merit (Chevalier dans l’Ordre national du Mérite) from France’sAmbassador in Switzerland. This prestigious award celebrates the career, culturalinfluence, and creative spirit of the Artistic Director.