- Ballet dancer and choreographer.
- Biography in: "The Scribner Encyclopedia of American Lives". Volume Two, 1986-1990, pages 135-138. New York: Charles Scribner's Sons, 1999.
- He was a smoker.
- Bruhn was posthumously recognized in 1987 for "exemplary contributions to Canada and its culture" as the first recipient of the annual Pagurian Award for Excellence in the Arts.
- The Erik Bruhn Prize was named in his honor was first awarded in 1988.
- He began training with the Royal Danish Ballet when he was nine.
- Longtime lover of Rudolph Nureyev.
- Unmarried.
- Father: Ernst E. Bruhn; Mother: Ellen Evers.
- Bruhn was posthumously honored for "exemplary contributions to Canada and its culture" as the first recipient of the annual Pagurian Award for Excellence in the Arts in 1987, one year after his death.
- Clive Barnes had named Erik Bruhn "the greatest male classical dancer of his time".
- Prima Ballerina Absolutta Natalia Makarova called him one of her all-time favorite partners.
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