Julien Favreau is the Artistic Director of the Bejart Ballet Lausanne.
He has performed numerous iconic roles in the ballets of Maurice Béjart and Gil Roman as a soloist throughout his career. It was therefore fitting that the Béjart Ballet Lausanne Foundation Board appointed him Interim Artistic Director, recognizing his deep connection with the founder's work, on March 1, 2024, before confirming him in this role as Artistic Director from September 1, 2024.

Winner of the Prix des Étoiles de Ballet 2000 in Cannes in 2006 and the Premio Positano "Leonide Massine" per la danza in 2012, Julien Favreau studied classical and contemporary dance at École Nationale de Musique et de Danse de La Rochelle under the direction of Colette Milner. He joined the École-Atelier Rudra Béjart in 1994 and, the following year, noticed by Maurice Béjart, he joined the company. From then on, the Master entrusted him with significant roles created specifically for him, in productions such as Zarathoustra, Le chant de la danse, L'Amour-la Danse, Elton Berg, La Route de la Soie, Enfant-Roi and Nutcracker. In ballet revivals, he was given several key roles such as in The Rite of Spring, Ballet for Life, Serait-ce la Mort?, Brel et Barbara, The Magic Flute, Dibouk, Le Teck and Bhakti.
Under the artistic direction of Gil Roman from 2007 onwards, he took on soloist roles in the BBL's repertoire, starting with the famous role of "La Mélodie" in Bolero, but also in Light, Le Concours, Le Marteau sans maître, Sonate à 3, Béjart fête Maurice, The Ninth Symphony, Un cygne d'autrefois se souvient que c'est lui and Wien, Wien, nur du Allein. Julien also participated in Gil Roman's creations, such as Casino des Esprits, Anima Blues, Aria, Tombées de la dernière pluie, t'M et variations... and Tous les hommes presque toujours s'imaginent. He was featured in the works of BBL's guest choreographers such as Andonis Foniadakis, Sthan Kabar-Louet, Tony Fabre, Marc Hollogne, Yuka Oishi and Valentina Turcu.
Julien Favreau is frequently invited to international galas and was the subject of a documentary directed by Michel Dami in 2005, "Julien Favreau, en attendant Zarathoustra", for the Télévision Suisse Romande.

Elisabet began her dance education with Pastora Martos before training with the Institut Del Teatre in Barcelona. In 1987, she joined the Royal Ballet of Wallonia under the direction of Jorge Lefebre. In 1991, she was named principal dancer with the Ballet de Zaragoza under the direction of Mauro Galindo. In 1997, she joined the Béjart Ballet Lausanne where she danced Boléro.

Maurice Béjart created important roles for her in his ballets: Brel et Barbara, Nutcracker, Zarathoustra, le chant de la danse. She has also interpreted lead roles in ballets, such as The Magic Flute (the Queen of the Night), Serait-ce la Mort ?, Gaîté parisienne, Wien Wien, nur du Allein, L’Amour – la Danse, Ballet for Life, The Ninth Symphony, Sonate n°5 and Im Chambre séparée in Béjart fête Maurice. She took part in numerous creations by Gil Roman, such as Casino des Esprits, Aria, Syncope, Anima Blues, Tombées de la dernière pluie, Impromptu…, t ’M et variations… and Tous les hommes presque toujours s’imaginent. In 2017, she participated in the creation of Dixit, a piece written and directed by Marc Hollogne with choreographies by Maurice Béjart and Gil Roman.

Since 2019, she has also been appointed assistant to the artistic direction.

In 2005, she received the Danza & Danza award for best interpretation for her leading role in Brel et Barbara.

Juichi Kobayashi was born in Tokyo in 1969 and took his first dance classes at the Noriko Kobayashi Ballet Academy in 1979. Six years later, he was awarded the prize for best dancer at the Phyllis Bedells Competition by the Royal Academy of Dance, and the Adelyn Genee Prize gold medal the following year.

From 1986 to 1989, he was in New York and trained with Stanley Williams and Andrei Kramerevsky at the School of American Ballet, which awarded him the Mae L. Wien Award.

Maurice Béjart hired him in 1989. Juichi Kobayashi danced many leading roles until his departure in 2003, including in The Rite of Spring, The Firebird, Pyramids, 1789... et nous, Piaf, Ring um den Ring, Nutcracker, Le Mandarin merveilleux, Bolero, La Mort Subite, Dionysos (suite), Ballet for Life, Dibouk, Messe pour le Temps présent and 7 danses grecques. In 1993, he played one of the main roles in Maurice Béjart's M for the Tokyo Ballet. Maurice Béjart created the ballet Tokyo Gesture for him, as a tribute to Nakamura Utaemon, a famous Kabuki actor.

He was invited three times to the World Ballet Festival in Tokyo, in 1994, 1997 and 2000. That same year, he participated in the Celebrate International Choreographer Gala at the Royal Opera House in London.

Juichi returned to Japan from 2004 to 2012 and worked on many theater and film productions. During that time, he also revived Maurice Béjart's works, Le Mandarin merveilleux, The Firebird, The Magic Flute and Nutcracker, for the Tokyo Ballet, the Paris Opera, the Ballet du Capitole in Toulouse, Victor Ullate's company in Madrid and the Santiago de Chile Ballet.

In 2010, he danced again the role created for him in M with the Tokyo Ballet, as well as the Mandarin (in Le Mandarin merveilleux) in 2013.

From 2016 to 2021, he opened the Orange Ballet School in the south of France with his partner Christine Blanc. In 2021, he was named Artistic Director of the Yokohama Dance Festival, where he produced many shows and also danced a solo created for him by choreographer Abou Lagraa.

In 2022, he participated in the creation of Kaori Ito’s last ballet for the Ballet of the Opera Grand Avignon before joining the Béjart Ballet Lausanne.