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...phenomenal Moiseyev Dance Company was playing to capacity crowds, while the waiting line for standing room coiled around the block. To the north, aficionados flocked to the spring rites as celebrated by Martha Graham and her dance company. But most excitement focused around Denmark's Erik Bruhn, a handsome, blond, well-muscled performer for the American Ballet Theater who not only has the best profile since Barrymore's but may just be the finest classical male dancer now before the public...
Technique Is Not Enough. The Ballet Theater has fallen off from its earlier, more sparkling days, but any shoddiness in its corps or weakness in the orchestra was forgotten on opening night in the performances of Erik Bruhn and Oklahoma-born Maria Tallchief. Appearing in the lead roles in Miss Julie, based on the theme of Strindberg's chilling play, they gave one of modern ballet's truly electric performances-taut, technically polished, tingling with passion. The following evening, in the more elegant climate of Swan Lake, they were equally convincing, and had critics groping for comparisons with...
Trained in Denmark, Bruhn leaped to fame in 1955, when he appeared in Giselle with the American Ballet Theater in a performance that Dancer-Choreographer Ted Shawn recalls as "one of the two greatest performances I've ever seen." Back home Bruhn, 32, is the idol of the Royal Danish Ballet, where he has brought new life to the classic roles reserved for a premier danseur noble. His technical credentials include a fine dramatic sense and an ability to leap with a high-arching grace, to turn with cat quickness and fluidity on the ground or in midair...
Greatness Is All. Bruhn devotes four months of the year to the Royal Danish Ballet, the rest to Ballet Theater and to a staggering round of guest appearances. When he accompanied the Ballet Theater to Russia last year, he was so applauded (one critic called him "the greatest male dancer to perform in the Soviet Union in the past 25 years") that the Bolshoi Ballet has invited him as a guest soloist for six months, starting next fall...
...Bell Telephone Hour (NBC, 9-10 p.m.). Jose Iturbi, Renata Tebaldi and Shirley Jones, with Dancers Maria Tallchief and Erik Bruhn. Color...