DANCE

The Swiss welcomed French choreographer Maurice Bejart Monday after his decision last week to move his Ballet of the 20th Century company from Brussels to Lausanne. The Lausanne newspaper La Suisse trumpeted “We Won!” on page one, adding that “The curtain has fallen, and we applaud.” Bejart announced Monday that the Swiss financial offer--an annual budget of 5.2 million Swiss francs ($3.5 million) and an undisclosed amount for Bejart himself--was duplicated by a Parisian arts consortium, but Bejart chose Lausanne, a city of only 120,000, over the French capital because the choreographer said that he sensed the “risk of a prospective adventure” in the Swiss city. The 60-member ballet makes its Lausanne debut Dec. 18 and will perform between 15 and 20 ballets of varying lengths in its first year of residency in the city.