Harald Kreutzberg
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Harald Kreutzberg (December 11, 1902, Reichenberg/Liberec - April 25, 1968) was a German dancer and choreographer.
Trained at the Dresden Ballet School, Kreutzberg also studied dance with Mary Wigman and Rudolf Laban.
An important figure of the German modern dance, he founded a school in Bern in 1955. Its ballets combined the drama and humor, with an emphasis on inventive scenes.
Kreutzberg made a rare appearance on television in the 1960's, when he was featured in the dual roles of Drosselmeyer and the Snow King, in a heavily abridged German-American co-production of Tchaikovsky's The Nutcracker. It was shown in the U.S. in 1965, and repeated several times afterward, but eventually superseded by the full-length Baryshnikov version in 1977.
