Ballet of the 20th Century

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Ballet of the 20th Century ({{langx|fr|Ballet du XXme Siècle}}), was a ballet and contemporary dance company in Brussels, Belgium{{cite book|author=Max Millard|title=100 New Yorkers of the 1970s: Revised Edition of Original Version|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=rAJ1BAAAQBAJ&pg=PT50|date=9 September 2014|publisher=otbebookpublishing|isbn=978-3-95676-686-2|page=50}} in 1960, by the French/Swiss choreographer Maurice Béjart.{{cite book|author=Lynn Garafola|title=Legacies of Twentieth-Century Dance|url=https://archive.org/details/legaciesoftwenti0000gara|url-access=registration|date=28 January 2005|publisher=Wesleyan University Press|isbn=978-0-8195-6674-4|pages=[https://archive.org/details/legaciesoftwenti0000gara/page/192 192]–}} For many years it was the official dance company of the Théâtre Royal de la Monnaie.

The company was known for including South and East Asian elements in its performances.{{cite book|author1=David M. Brownstone|author2=Irene M. Franck|title=20th century culture: a dictionary of the arts and literature of our time|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=ZZQUAQAAIAAJ|date=1 May 1991|publisher=Prentice Hall|isbn=978-0-13-210519-4|page=36}}