Erik Bruhn
Erik Bruhn Erik Bruhn was born on October 3, 1928 in Copenhagen, and died April 1, 1986 in Toronto. ... Bruhn was a Danish dancer, choreographer, and company director. Bruhn began his dance training when he was six years old at a local ballet school in the village of Gentofte. Bruhn began his dance training when he was six years old at a local ballet school in the village of Gentofte. ... In 1942, at age fourteen, Bruhn appeared as a principal dancer in a student production of August Bournonville’s Napoli and displayed in public for the first time the purity of his line, the lightness of his jump, the cleanness of his footwork, and his exceptional facility for the Bournonville technique. ... In the first part of his career, Bruhn was the epitome of the classical dancer—Le danseur noble et sérieux—and one of the most elegant performers in the world.