Erik Bruhn Oct 3, 1928 - April 1, 1986
Rudolph Nureyev March 17, 1938 - Jan 6, 1993
friends, lovers, premier ballet dancers, lost to AIDS
ph. Diane Arbus 1963
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Erik Bruhn (3 October 1928 - 1 April 1986), principal dancer with the Royal Danish Ballet. at Kronborg Castle, Elsinore. Kronborg’s name is known all over the world because Shakespeare made the castle the scene of his tragedy Hamlet. Photo by Serge Lido, 1953.
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Erik Bruhn rehearses a lift with Nadia Nerina as Rudolf Nureyev looks on.
"Sleeping Beauty", London, 1961
Photo by Michael Peto [x]
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1 aprile … ricordiamo …
1 aprile … ricordiamo …
#semprevivineiricordi #nomidaricordare #personaggiimportanti #perfettamentechic
2023: Dario Campeotto, cantante, attore e doppiatore danese di famiglia italiana, divenne noto per aver rappresentato la Danimarca all’Eurovision Song Contest 1961. Si cimentò poi nell’operetta e intraprese anche una carriera di attore. Fu inoltre attivo nel doppiaggio. Fu sposato due volte. Con la prima moglie, l’attrice Ghita Nørby, visse per un periodo in Italia. Ebbe tre figli. (n.…
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The National Ballet of Canada 2022-2023 Season
The National Ballet of Canada announces 2022-2023 season which includes the world premiere of MADDADDAM by Wayne McGregor and Margaret Atwood.
Wei Wang, Maria Kochetkova and Henry Sidford in Anima Animus. Photo by Erik Tomasson, courtesy of San Francisco Ballet
Hope Muir, who became Artistic Director of The National Ballet of Canada at the beginning of this year, has announced the 2022-2023 season, her first full season with the company.
Highlights include:
World Premiere of MADDADDAM by Wayne McGregor and Margaret AtwoodWorld…
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Dancers Erik Bruhn and Rudolf Nureyev on holiday in the Greek Islands (photo by Serge Lido, dated 1963).
Nureyev was a great admirer of Bruhn, having seen filmed performances of the Danish dancer on tour in Russia with the American Ballet Theatre, although stylistically the two dancers were very different.
The two men met in 1961 shortly after Nureyev’s defection to the West and Bruhn is reported to have been the great love of Nureyev’s life (source: “Rudolf Nureyev: The Life” by Julie Kavanagh, 2007). They remained close for 25 years until Bruhn’s death in 1986 at the aged of 57.
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I told my friend about how much Goncharov 1973 has affected me, becoming my favourite movie, and she tried to search it up online. Then, all confused came back to me, asking why isn’t she finding it anywhere, and I think we need to adress this matter.
Goncharov is, despite all criticism, a queer piece of media. Not only that, but it has Russian queer characters, set in a yet Sovietic time-frame.
We all know the tensions between the East and the West during that time, screw it, the tensions are still alive even now. All the “homo propaganda” that Russia tries to silence and ridicule and blame on the West for all its gay people. And sadly, Goncharov 1973, is maybe one if its biggest victim.
Until just a few days, if you searched online Goncharov 1973 dir. Martin Scorsese you would have found nothing. The entire movie was removed from history, all scenes burned and all posters ripped due to the Soviet Union’s pressure for it to be deleted.
[ID a screenshot of a french market application where a rare version of Goncharov is being sold at an overpriced price (150€ when the original price was 15€).
Translation: “Collector version of Martin Scorsese’s 1973 mafia movie.
No more in market, thus the price (not debatable, i won’t answer foolish proposals)
Can be passed in hand in Lile (France) or sent with care” End ID]
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Thus the only sources were the limited physical copies created during the short time it was available for sale.
This proves the recent analysis (here too), that men have a hard time escaping the violent environment they were set in, that that’s how it must be. All the queer tendencies having to be silenced because it’s an anomaly (we’ve all seen the goncharov x andrey scenes, idc how you can say they’re just partners in crime, there’s definitely more) or how women must, despite their own preferences, stand next to a man. How their worth is based solely on their support to another man, unable to chose their own life path (the katya and sofia scenes touched me more than almost any GLs i might have read fr).
The movie did mock these stereotypes, that’s why it rubbed the Soviet Union the wrong way and it stirred such a controversy.
But in the end, the ones who suffer the most are the queer people from there. Just because they don’t have a voice anymore it doesn’t mean there never existed, or still exist, queer people in Russia. Just open a history book my friend, there are endless examples: Tchaikovsky was a gay man who is thought to have been assassinated because of his orientation. [ID a famous picture of Piotr Tchaikovsky next to Iosif Kotek, said to be the composer’s partner End ID]
Konstantin Somov, whose connection with Methodiy is said to be just “friendship” despite his writings in his journal. [ID a painting done by Konstantin Somov depicting Methodiy Lukyanov in PJs, said to be the “one who loved Somov the most” as Somov wrote End ID]
Rudolf Nureyev, bisexual, who was even expulsed from the Soviet Union during that time and who was never able to see his mother until the moment she died… [ID a portrait of the famous Russian ballet dancer, Rudolf Nureyev, who was in a long term relationship with Danish ballet dancer Erik Bruhn, until the latter’s death End ID]
They existed, they exist. They people who suffer the most. Stop silencing queer media and queer people! It is important…
Let’s spam Goncharov everywhere. Goncharov and Andrey and Katya and Sofia. They are all valid. Let’s not leave their story fade in vain.
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Rudolf Nureyev and his lover Erik Bruhn enjoying the sun, the sea, and each other.
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