Rudi van Dantzig

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Rudi van Dantzig (Amsterdam, August 4, 1933), is a Dutch choreographer, ballet dancer and writer. Since 1965 he is co-artistic leader of Het Nationale Ballet (Amsterdam, The Netherlands). After Sonia Gaskell (left in 1969) and his other colleague left in 1971, he was the only artistic leader, till 1991.

In 1986 he wrote an autobiographical novel, Voor een verloren soldaat, about his love affair while a young boy with a Canadian soldier, which became a great success. It was awarded several times and a film was made of it. An English translation, For a Lost Soldier, was published in 1996. Van Dantzig published a biography of the Dutch artist and resistance fighter Willem Arondeus in 2003.

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Utrecht, Luuk: Rudi van Dantzig: a controversial idealist in ballet. Zutphen, 1992.