Jorge Donn (Spanish: Jorge Raúl Itovich 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. His nephew, Aliocha Itovich, is now a famous French filmmaker.
Repertoire edit
- 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, 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 edit
- 1975: Je suis né à Venise 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 edit
- ^ Lariviere, Michel (2017-10-19). Dictionnaire historique des homosexuel.le.s célèbres (in French). Groupe CB. ISBN 978-2-36490-810-9.
External links edit
- Jorge Donn at IMDb