DANCER

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. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Maurice Béjart has received more than 248,747 page views. His biography is available in 50 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 49 in 2019). Maurice Béjart is the 11th most popular dancer, the 741st most popular biography from France (down from 630th in 2019) and the 2nd 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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  • 250k

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  • 65.17

    Historical Popularity Index (HPI)

  • 50

    Languages Editions (L)

  • 7.21

    Effective Languages (L*)

  • 3.53

    Coefficient of Variation (CV)

Among DANCERS

Among dancers, Maurice Béjart ranks 11 out of 116. Before him are Josephine Baker, Vaslav Nijinsky, Pina Bausch, Bobby Farrell, Marius Petipa, and Marie Taglioni. After him are Margot Fonteyn, Mikhail Baryshnikov, Maya Plisetskaya, Jean-Georges Noverre, Martha Graham, and Michel Fokine.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1927, Maurice Béjart ranks 29. Before him are Harry Belafonte, Simone Veil, Hubert de Givenchy, Robert Hossein, Marshall Warren Nirenberg, and Gilbert Bécaud. After him are Martin Lewis Perl, Juliette Gréco, John McCarthy, Rosalynn Carter, Raúl Alfonsín, and Manfred Eigen. Among people deceased in 2007, Maurice Béjart ranks 19. Before him are Kurt Vonnegut, Mohammed Zahir Shah, Carlo Ponti, Sidney Sheldon, Benazir Bhutto, and Kai Siegbahn. After him are Ryszard Kapuściński, Jean-Pierre Cassel, Sri Chinmoy, Ernst Otto Fischer, Albert Ellis, and Nils Liedholm.

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In France

Among people born in France, Maurice Béjart ranks 741 out of 6,770. Before him are John, Duke of Berry (1340), Jeanne Hébuterne (1898), Nicolas-Louis de Lacaille (1713), Bruno Latour (1947), Dom Pérignon (1639), and Catherine Labouré (1806). After him are Albert I, Prince of Monaco (1848), Jean-Baptiste de La Salle (1651), Eugène Edine Pottier (1816), Clotilde (475), Jérôme Lalande (1732), and Charles Hermite (1822).

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Among DANCERS In France

Among dancers born in France, Maurice Béjart ranks 2. Before him are Marius Petipa (1818). After him are Jean-Georges Noverre (1727), La Goulue (1866), Pierre Beauchamp (1631), Liane de Pougy (1869), Roland Petit (1924), Jules Perrot (1810), Zizi Jeanmaire (1924), Arthur Saint-Léon (1821), Micheline Bernardini (1927), and Jean Coralli (1779).

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