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Danish ballet dancer (–)

Erik Belton Evers Bruhn (3 October – 1 April ) was a Danish ballet dancer, choreographer, artistic director, actor, and author.

Early life

Erik Bruhn was born in Copenhagen, Denmark, the fourth child and first son of Ellen (née Evers), owner of a hairdressing salon, and third child of Ernst Bruhn.

His parents married shortly before his birth.^[1] Bruhn began training with the Royal Danish Ballet when he was nine years old, and made his unofficial début on the stage of Copenhagen's Royal Opera House in , dancing the role of Adonis in Harald Lander's ballet Thorvaldsen.^[2]

Career

He was taken permanently into the company in at the age of eighteen.

Bruhn took the first of his frequent sabbaticals from the Danish company in , dancing for six months with the short-lived Metropolitan Ballet in England, where he formed his first major partnership, with the Bulgarian ballerina Sonia Arova.

He returned to the Royal Danis