We have been inviting and welcoming guests since the first LNOBT Open Festival. This year, the festival will welcome one of the world's most famous ballet companies - Béjart Ballet Lausanne, founded by choreographer Maurice Béjart. The company will perform three legendary ballets during the evening in Vilnius.
Alors on danse...! (Let there be dance!..., choreographed by Gil Roman, to music by John Zorn, Citypercussion, Bob Dylan). Choreographer Gil Roman says of this ballet: "In these turbulent times we wanted light. I created a sequence of choreographies based on classical techniques with the sole purpose of making dancing fun!"
7 danses Grecques (7 Greek Dances, choreographed by Maurice Béjart, based on the music of Mikis Theodorakis). The Greek Dances by Maurice Béjart do not illustrate or reproduce traditional Greek folklore, but reveal the inner strength of the traditional creativity of the Greek people. According to the choreographer, he has tried to borrow as few authentic Greek dance steps as possible in his Greek Dances, some of which use only two or three, some none. But it is these dances that have become the most popular and the most "Greek"!
Boléro (choreographed by Maurice Béjart, music by Maurice Ravel) is a legendary work by Maurice Béjart, which was premiered in 1961 at the Théâtre Royal de la Monnaie in Brussels, and it is still a masterpiece in the repertoire of the Béjart company to this day, astonishing everyone by the way it has become aesthetically pleasing.