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Presenter: Finally, let's take a look at the first major choreographic event to be devoted to the bicentenary of the French Revolution. Staged at the Grand Palais, the ballet by Maurice Béjart opens on Tuesday and is boldly entitled: 1789 and us. Patrick JACOB.

Journalist: Béjart is in town, Béjart is rehearsing and it is this rococo vessel of steel and glass that he and his company have taken over for 1789 and us, the new 1989 show, dedicated, inevitably, to the French Revolution. This time Maurice Béjart pulls no punches. Firstly, for the choice of venue, and secondly for the scale of the performance (2 hours with no interval), and of course for the theme. Béjart has not just come here to blow out the candles.

Maurice Béjart: I believe that the revolution is not a birthday that you celebrate once a year. You should do it every day, every morning. Getting up should be a daily revolution. There is so much going on, so much injustice, so many problems, so much drama in this day and age, that we have to be vigilant all the time. We can't afford to sit back on our laurels and just say: "fantastic, 200 years, let's have a party».

Spectacle: Freedom is all about wanting to do anything, provided that it will not hurt somebody else.

Journalist: "The world is changing, it must change more», wrote Robespierre. This is almost certainly Maurice Béjart's motto. Though the Revolution may now have 200 candles on its

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