Maurice Béjart about Ballet for Life

"Then I found this chalet above Montreux. I sat and marvelled at the landscape which stretched over the Lake Geneva as far as the eye could see. The release of Queen's latest album Made In Heaven came a few days later, and I saw on the cover exactly the same view. I'm very sensitive to this kind of coincidence."

"I began to read books on Freddie Mercury, on his life. I learned that he was born in Zanzibar, that he lived in India, that he had Iranian descent, that his family belonged to the parsee community. "Parsi" came from "Persian". Parsis were the worshipers of Zoroaster-Zarathushtra, they left their native country for Bombay at the time of the Moslem invasion. The birth name of Freddie Mercury is Farrokh Bulsara. I read that he was buried in London after a private ceremony led by zoroastrian priests. In short, I became interested in Freddie Mercury and Queen, and this made me read again Henry Corbin's books.

"Dann fand ich diese Chalet oberhalb von Montreux. Ich saß und bewundern die Landschaft, die sich über den Genfer See, so weit das Auge sehen konnte. Die Freisetzung von Queen's neuesten Album Made In Heaven kam ein paar Tage später, und ich sah auf der die genau die gleiche Auffassung. Ich bin sehr anfällig für diese Art von Zufall. "

"Ich begann zu lesen Bücher über Freddie Mercury, über sein Leben. Ich habe gelernt, dass er geboren wurde, in Sansibar, dass er lebte in Indien, dass er iranischer Herkunft, die seine Familie gehörte zu den parsee Gemeinschaft." Parsi "aus" Persisch ". Parsen waren die Diener der Zoroaster-Zarathushtra, verließen sie ihre Heimat für Bombay zum Zeitpunkt der muslimischen Invasion. Die Geburt Name von Freddie Mercury ist Farrokh bulsara. Ich habe gelesen, dass er begraben wurde in London nach einer privaten Feier führte von zoroastrischen Priester. Kurz gesagt, mein Interesse an Freddie Mercury und Queen, und das hat mich wieder Henry Corbin's Books.

"I see it as a joyful ballet, neither sinister nor defeatest. Inspired by Freddie Mercury and Jorge Donn, it will not be a ballet about AIDS, but about those who died young. Between Queen tracks I'll include some piano or instrumental pieces by Mozart, but not vocal ones, because all the pieces of Queen are sung. Mozart is also someone who died young, at 35, ten

years younger than Freddie and Donn who died in 45."