Jorge Donn

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

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

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)