Serait-ce la mort ?, Adage pour deux et Boléro at La Grange au Lac in Évian

The Béjart Ballet Lausanne will return on June 30, 2025, to La Grange au Lac in Évian. The company will perform iconic pieces by Maurice Béjart: Serait-ce la mort ?, Adage pour deux and Boléro.

The evening opens with Serait-ce la mort ?, in the words of Maurice Béjart: “These are the four last “Lieder” by Richard Strauss, composed in Switzerland, partly in Lausanne. The title of the ballet is taken from the last verse of the final Lieder: ‘Is dies etwa der Tod?’ A man on the verge of death recalls three women he loved during his life. But a fourth figure always comes between him and the loved ones. He never knew her—who is she? ‘Serait-ce la mort ?‘”

The second choreographic piece of the evening is Adage pour deux, a pas de deux taken from Malraux ou la Métamorphose des dieux, created in 1986 at the Cirque Royal in Brussels, set to the music of Ludwig van Beethoven.

The evening concludes with Boléro, a ballet created in 1961 to Maurice Ravel’s mesmerizing score. The central role—the Melody—is alternately performed by a male or female dancer, while the Rhythm is embodied by a group of dancers.

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