Maurice Béjart

Maurice Béjart was a ballet dancer and choreographer born in France and naturalized Swiss posthumously Based successively in Paris Brussels and Lausanne he is recognized as a choreographer having widely toured with the ballet company he founded in Belgium in 1960 Ballet of the 20th Century He founded several dance schools one of which the Rudra School in Lausanne is still open and is one of the most famous professional dance schools in the world He was appointed to the Académie des Beaux Arts from 1994 until his death