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...thing is certain: since Italian Dancer Paolo Bortoluzzi left Maurice Béjart's Brussels-based Ballet of the Twentieth Century to join the American Ballet Theater in June, he has caused more excitement in the U.S. than any male dancer since Rudolf Nureyev leaped through the Iron Curtain...
...live the story with me now. I want them to say, 'Oh, isn't it awful, that poor boy lost his girl.' " As for his unorthodox gestures, which some observers describe as a carryover from his twelve years with the oriental-inspired, contemporary-styled Béjart company, Bortoluzzi says: "My personality is the same whether I dance for Béjart or whether I dance Giselle, and I don't intend to change...
Maurice Béjart and his Brussels-based Ballet of the 20th Century, at Brooklyn's Academy of Music, were trying to demonstrate why European audiences regard them as the most avant of the avantgarde. At 43, Béjart is famous for dealing in shock effects, trying to interest the young and preaching that dance is mass ritual best staged in, say, Yankee Stadium. Other Béjart proclivities include a fondness for propaganda and a belief that the union of male and female, explicitly demonstrated, is a major balletic theme. For music he mixes Wagner with Indian...
...something very important, you have achieved freedom." Free or not, Paris audiences enjoyed the joke, and so did the critics. "There is a little of everything in this choreographic ceremony," said Le Figaro reverently. "Pure plasticity, provocation, tenderness, violence. But there is above all the imagination of Béjart, more effervescent than ever...
Critics declared it "a real triumph," "a revolution." Enthused Paris' Le Monde: "Here is the masterpiece of all symphonic choreographies." Said Béjart coolly: "I didn't say anything Beethoven didn...