Maya Plisetskaya - Boléro by Ravel

Composer Maurice Ravel
Choreography by Maurice Bejart
Ballet du XXe Siècle, Brussels

One of Béjart's masterpiece works of dance was choreography he set to French composer Maurice Ravel's Boléro. Created in 1960 for the Yugoslav ballerina Duška Sifnios, the dance features a dancer on a tabletop, surrounded by seated men, who slowly participate in the dance, culminating in a climactic union of the dancers atop the table. Amongst the dancers, who would later perform Béjart's interpretation of "Bolero," include Sylvie Guillem from the Paris Opera Ballet, Grazia Galante, Maya Plisetskaya, Angele Albrecht, and Roberto Bolle. In a twist, Jorge Donn also played the role of the principal dancer, becoming the first male to do so.