Jorge Donn (25 February 1947 in Ciudad Jardin,

Buenos Aires Buenos Aires ( or ; ), officially the Autonomous City of Buenos Aires ( es, link=no, Ciudad Autónoma de Buenos Aires), is the capital and primate city of Argentina. The city is located on the western shore of the Río de la Plata, on South ...

– 30 November 1992 in

Lausanne , neighboring_municipalities= Bottens, Bretigny-sur-Morrens, Chavannes-près-Renens, Cheseaux-sur-Lausanne, Crissier, Cugy, Écublens, Épalinges, Évian-les-Bains (FR-74), Froideville, Jouxtens-Mézery, Le Mont-sur-Lausanne, Lugrin (FR ...

Switzerland ). Swiss law does not designate a ''capital'' as such, but the federal parliament and government are installed in Bern, while other federal institutions, such as the federal courts, are in other cities (Bellinzona, Lausanne, Luzern, Neuchâtel ...

), was an Argentine internationally known

ballet Ballet () is a type of performance dance that originated during the Italian Renaissance in the fifteenth century and later developed into a concert dance form in France and Russia. It has since become a widespread and highly technical form of ...

dancer. He was best known for his work with

Maurice Béjart Maurice Béjart (; 1 January 1927 – 22 November 2007) was a French-born dancer, choreographer and opera director who ran the Béjart Ballet Lausanne in Switzerland. He developed a popular expressionistic form of modern ballet, talking vast th ...

's ''

Ballet of the 20th Century Ballet of the 20th Century (french: Ballet du XXme Siècle), was a ballet and contemporary dance company in Brussels, Belgium in 1960, by the French/Swiss choreographer Maurice Béjart. For many years it was the official dance company of the Théât ...

''. He died of AIDS on 30 November 1992 in

Repertoire

; Maurice Béjart * 1964: '' Ninth Symphony'' 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 , image = Roerich Rite of Spring.jpg , image_size = 350px , caption = Concept design for act 1, part of Nicholas Roerich's designs for Diaghilev's 1913 production of ' , composer = Igor Stravinsky , based_on ...

'', ''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 Maya Mikhailovna Plisetskaya (russian: link=no, Майя Михайловна Плисецкая; 20 November 1925 – 2 May 2015) was a Soviet and Russian ballet dancer, choreographer, ballet director, and actress. In post-Soviet times, she he ...

) * 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 ''Vienna Waltzes'' is a ballet choreographed by George Balanchine to music by Johann Strauss II, Franz Lehár and Richard Strauss, made as a tribute to Austria. It premiered on June 23, 1977 at the New York State Theater, performed by the N ...

'', ''

Bugaku is a Japanese traditional dance that has been performed to select elites, mostly in the Japanese imperial court, for over twelve hundred years. In this way, it has been known only to the nobility, although after World War II, the dance was ope ...

Filmography

*1975: '' Je suis né à Venise'' by

— as Jorge / The Sun *1978: ''

Flesh Color Flesh Color (French: Couleur Chair) is a 35 mm film by François Weyergans (Prix Goncourt 2005). Weyergans is one of the forty members known as immortals of the French Academy (L'Académie française). It features a band called Flesh Colour f ...

'' by

François Weyergans François Weyergans (; 2 August 1941 – 27 May 2019) was a Belgian writer and director. His father, Franz Weyergans, was a Belgian and also a writer, while his mother was from Avignon in France. François Weyergans was elected to the Acadé ...

— as Ramón *1981: ''

Les Uns et les Autres ''Les Uns et les Autres'' is a 1981 French film by Claude Lelouch. The film is a musical epic and it is widely considered as the director's best work, along with '' Un Homme et une Femme''. It won the Technical Grand Prize at the 1984 Cannes Film ...

'' by

Claude Lelouch Claude Barruck Joseph Lelouch (; born 30 October 1937) is a French film director, writer, cinematographer, actor and producer. Lelouch grew up in an Algerian Jewish Family. He emerged as a prominent director in the 1960s. Lelouch gained criti ...

— as Boris Itovitch / Sergei Itovitch *1990: '' There Were Days... and Moons'' by

— as dancer (uncredited)

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