More than forty years of professional work for Maurice Béjart: a unique experience to be shared with the dancers of the entire world !
He was trained by his mother, Colette Milner, at the La Rochelle Conservatory in France. In 1973 at the age of 16, he won first prize at the ‘Prix de Lausanne’ international competition. He then went to the Mudra School in Brussels, directed by Maurice Béjart, where he studied for one year before joining the ‘Ballet du XXième siècle’ (Ballet of the 20th Century) company. He danced his first solo roles when he was 17 years old.
Maurice Béjart created many roles for him in the following ballets:
1789 et nous
Acqua alta
Ce que l'amour me dit
Ce que la mort me dit
Dionysos
Gaieté parisienne
Heliogabale
Illuminations
La flûte enchantée
La mort subite
La muette
La nuit transfigurée
La tour
Le concours
Le Molière imaginaire
Les sept danses grecques
L’histoire du soldat
Light
M pour B
Malraux ou la métamorphose des dieux
Messe pour le temps futur
Mozart Tango
Notre Faust
Pyramide El Nour
Ring um den Ring
Souvenirs de Leningrad
Talassa Mare Nostrum
Wien Wien, nur du allein
He has performed the following roles
of the Béjart repertoire:
Bhakti
Farah
Golestan ou le jardin des roses
Le marteau sans maître
L'oiseau de feu
Petrouchka
Pli selon pli
V comme
As a choreagrapher he created ‘Trois pour Trois’ at the Royal Circus in Brussels, and ‘Children’s Corner’ in Milan, in 1984.
In 1992 he decided to give up his career as Béjart Ballet soloist and coach and help Maurice Béjart set up the Rudra Béjart School in Lausanne.
They worked together closely for 35 years and, in accordance with the provisions of Maurice Béjart’s will, Michel Gascard has been appointed director of the Rudra Béjart School in 2007.
Michel Gascard teaches the ballet classes and the Maurice Béjart's repertoire in the form of dance studies.
Every year, Michel Gascard teaches the Maurice Béjart's choreographies on the most famous stages in the world : Béjart Ballet Lausanne, Paris Opera, Scala of Milano, National Ballet of China, Tokyo Ballet, Royal Swedish Ballet, The Monte-Carlo Ballet... .
