Jorge Donn

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Jorge Donn (1977)

Jorge Donn (born February 25, 1947 in El Palomar , † November 30, 1992 in Lausanne ) was an Argentine ballet dancer of world renown.

Training in Argentina

Jorge Donn (he used his mother's maiden name as his stage name) was born on February 25, 1947 as one of the four sons of Mauricio Itovich and Rosa Donn in El Palomar in the Argentine province of Buenos Aires . Before he had reached the mandatory entry age of 8 years, he attended the ballet school of the Teatro Colón in Buenos Aires , where he studied classical ballet and modern dance (with Renate Schottelius) for 10 years , which is less popular about the classically oriented theater has been.

Decision for Europe

In 1963, at the age of 16, he was accepted into the Corps de ballet des Colón. In the same year Maurice Béjart made a tour of Argentina with his company Ballet du XXe siècle . After Donn attended a workshop with him, he asked if he could continue dancing for Béjart. Béjart told him that he was good enough, but that he had no vacancies in his ensemble. Nevertheless, Donn borrowed money and followed Béjart to Brussels, where he was allowed to stand in for a sick dancer: the beginning of his world career.

Collaboration with Maurice Béjart and world fame

He soon became one of the company's leading solo dancers and danced the leading roles in the Ninth Symphony (1964), in Romeo and Juliet (1966), Messe pour le temps présent (1967), Nijinsky, Clown de Dieu (1971), Notre Faust ( 1975), Bolero (1979) and in numerous other ballet pieces. In 1976 he was invited by George Balanchine to dance for his New York City Ballet . In 1980 he became artistic director of the Ballet du XXe siècle.

In the 1981 film Everybody will receive his wages ... ( Les uns et les autres ) by Claude Lelouch , who made him known worldwide even to an audience inexperienced in ballet, he portrays a dancer who is modeled on Rudolf Nureyev . He dances the Boléro by Maurice Ravel .

When Béjart left Brussels to work in Lausanne, Jorge Donn sought artistic independence from his teacher. He founded his own company, the Europe Ballet , which only existed for a few months. He eventually followed Béjart at his Béjart Ballet Lausanne . Despite the illness (he was HIV- positive) he continued to stand on stage, danced the title role in a new production by Nijinsky in 1990 and gave performances worldwide. In 1992 he died of the immune deficiency AIDS in Lausanne.

repertoire

Maurice Béjart
  • 1964: Divertimento, Les noces (The Wedding)
  • 1965: Renard (The Fox)
  • 1966: Webern Opus V, Romeo and Juliet
  • 1967: Ninth Symphony, Aubade, Messe pour le temps présent, Mathilde
  • 1968: Baudelaire, Le voyage, Bhakti
  • 1969: Lettera amorosa, Cantate 106, Les Vainqueurs (The Winners)
  • 1970: Serait-ce la mort ?, L'oiseau de feu (Firebird), Sonata N ° 5
  • 1971: Le sacre du printemps (The Rite of Spring), Offrande chorégraphique, Chant du compagnon errant (Songs of a Wayfarer), Les fleurs du mal (Flowers of Evil), Nijinsky, clown de Dieu (Nijinsky, Clown of God)
  • 1972: Hommage à Jean Cocteau, Symphonie pour un homme seul (Symphony for a Lonely Man), mood
  • 1973: Le Marteau sans maître, Sonate à trois, Golestan ou le jardin des roses
  • 1974: I trionfi del Petrarca (The Triumphs of Petrarch), Ce que l'amour me dit
  • 1975: Acqua Alta, Notre Faust
  • 1976: Le Molière imaginaire
  • 1977: Héliogabale (ou L'anarchiste couronne), Petrouchka
  • 1978: Gaîte parisienne, Dichterliebe - Amor di poeta, Ce que la mort me dit, Leda (with Maya Plisetskaya)
  • 1979: Boléro (first male performer), Erotica, Les illuminations, Mephisto Walzer (Mephisto Waltz)
  • 1980: Eros Thanatos
  • 1981: La muette, La flûte enchantée (Magic Flute), Adagietto, Light, Divine
  • 1982: Vienna, Vienna, only you alone (Vienna, Vienna, Only You), Thalassa, mare nostrum
  • 1983: Mass pour le temps Future, Vie et mort d'une marionnette humaine
  • 1984: Dionysus
  • 1985: Le concours
  • 1986: Malraux ou la métamorphose des dieux
  • 1987: Souvenir de Leningrad, ... et Valse (... and Waltz)
  • 1988: Dibouk (Dybbuk), A force de partir, je suis resté chez moi
  • 1989: 1789 ... et nous
  • 1990: Nijinsky, clown de Dieu (Nijinsky, Clown of God)
George Balanchine
  • 1973: Meditation
  • 1977: Vienna Waltzes, Bugaku
John Neumeier
  • 1980: Love and Sorrow and World and Dream

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personal data
SURNAME Thursday, Jorge
BRIEF DESCRIPTION argentinian ballet dancer
DATE OF BIRTH February 25, 1947
PLACE OF BIRTH El Palomar , Argentina
DATE OF DEATH November 30, 1992
Place of death Lausanne , Switzerland