Jorge Donn

Jorge Donn in 1977.

Jorge Donn performing IX Symphony Beethoven – choreography Maurice Bejart – Brussels 1976

Jorge Donn (25 February 1947 in Ciudad Jardin, Buenos Aires – 30 November 1992 in Lausanne, Switzerland), was an Argentine internationally known ballet dancer.^[1] He was best known for his work with Maurice Béjart's Ballet of the 20th Century. He died of AIDS on 30 November 1992 in Lausanne, Switzerland.

Repertoire[]

Maurice Béjart

• 1964: by Beethoven (1967?)
• 1966: Webern Opus V, Roméo et Juliette
• 1967: la Messe pour le temps présent
• 1968: Bhakti
• 1970: Serait-ce la mort?, Firebird, Sonate N°5
• 1971: The Rite of Spring, Songs of a Wayfarer, Nijinsky, Clown of God
• 1972: Symphony for a Lonely Man
• 1973: Sonate à trois, Golestan ou le jardin des roses
• 1974: The Triumphs of Petrarch, Ce que l'amour me dit
• 1975: Notre Faust
• 1976: Le Molière imaginaire
• 1977: Héliogabale, Petrouchka
• 1978: Gaîte parisienne, Ce que la mort me dit, Leda (with Maya Plisetskaya)
• 1979: Boléro by Ravel (first male performer), Mephisto Waltz
• 1980: Eros Thanatos
• 1981: Adagietto by Mahler, Light
• 1982: Vienna, Vienna, Only You
• 1983: Messe pour le temps futur
• 1984: Dionysos
• 1985: Le concours
• 1986: Malraux ou la métamorphose des dieux
• 1987: Souvenir de Leningrad, ... and Waltz
• 1988: Dybbuk, A force de partir, je suis resté chez moi

George Balanchine

• 1977: Vienna Waltzes, Bugaku

Filmography[]

• 1975: by Maurice Béjart — as Jorge / The Sun
• 1978: Flesh Color by François Weyergans — as Ramón
• 1981: Les Uns et les Autres by Claude Lelouch — as Boris Itovitch / Sergei Itovitch
• 1990: There Were Days... and Moons by Claude Lelouch — as dancer (uncredited)

References[]

External links[]

• Jorge Donn at IMDb

• Facebook Page
• Unofficial Site