Harald Kreutzberg

Harald Kreutzberg (December 11, 1902–April 25, 1968), was a German dancer and choreographer.

Kreutzberg was born at Reichenberg/Liberec. Trained at the Dresden Ballet School, he 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. He died in Bern. [1]

Kreutzberg made a rare appearance on television in the 1960s, 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. [2] It was shown in the U.S. in 1965 by CBS,[3] and repeated several times afterward, but eventually superseded by the nearly full-length Baryshnikov version in 1977.