What is Rudi van Dantzig?
[[File:Rudi van Dantzig (1979).jpg|thumb|Rudy van Dantzig (1979)]] '''Rudi van Dantzig''' (4 August 1933 – 19 January 2012) was a [[Dutch people|Dutch]] [[choreographer]], [[ballet dancer]] and [[writer]]. From 1965 until his death he was the artistic co-leader of the [[Dutch National Ballet]] in [[Amsterdam]].<ref>{{cite news| url=https://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/obituaries/culture-obituaries/dance-obituaries/9057493/Rudi-van-Dantzig.html | location=London | work=The Daily Telegraph | title=Rudi van Dantzig | date=2 February 2012}}</ref> ==Life== Van Dantzig was born in [[Amsterdam]]. After [[Sonia Gaskell]] (left in 1969) and his other colleague left the Dutch National Ballet in 1971, he was the only artistic leader until 1991. ==''For a Lost Soldier''== In 1986 he wrote an autobiographical novel, ''Voor een verloren soldaat'', about his [[homosexuality]] and [[sexual relationship]] [[pederasty|while a young boy]] with a [[Canadians|Canadian]] soldier. The book became a great success and received several awards; an English [[translation]], ''For a Lost Soldier'', was published in 1991. In 1992 a Dutch movie with the same title (English version: ''[[For a Lost Soldier]]'') was based on it. Van Dantzig also published a biography of the Dutch artist and resistance fighter [[Willem Arondeus]] in 2003. ==Death== Van Dantzig died in 2012, aged 78 from [[lymphoma]] and [[male breast cancer]].<ref>{{cite web|author=Redactie|url=http://www.trouw.nl/tr/nl/4512/Cultuur/article/detail/3128956/2012/01/19/Choreograaf-Rudi-van-Dantzig-overleden.dhtml|title=Choreograaf Rudi van Dantzig overleden|publisher=Trouw.nl|accessdate=2012-01-19}}</ref> ==References== {{reflist}} ==More reading== * Utrecht, Luuk: ''Rudi van Dantzig: a controversial idealist in ballet''. Zutphen, 1992. {{ISBN|906011776X}} ==Other websites== *[http://www.levenlangtheater.nl/rudi%20van%20dantzig/ Source (in Dutch)] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20141109054459/http://www.levenlangtheater.nl/rudi%20van%20dantzig/ |date=2014-11-09 }} *[