Alexandra Posted March 14, 2003 Share Posted March 14, 2003 I just received word today that Niels Bjørn Larsen, one of the great Danish mimes, and a former artistic director of the Royal Danish Ballet, has died. There's an obituary in today's Politiken, but it is not available on line (that I could find). He was 89. Link to comment
Alexandra Posted March 18, 2003 Author Share Posted March 18, 2003 There's an obituary of Larsen in the Guardian today (by Mary Clarke, a long-time RDB watcher) Danish master of dance and mime I would take a small exception to Clarke's comment that "his classical techniquie had suffered during the time with Schoop" [a pantomime company with which Larsen was associated briefly] and note that Larsen was never a classical dancer. He was a character dancer, a mime. (And proudly so; it's what he wanted to do.) Link to comment
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