#swedish dancer

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Carina Ari dans la danse d’Anitra, Divertissement, 1921

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Jenny Hasselquist (1917) by Henry B. Goodwin

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Swedish ballet dancer and choreographer, Birgit Cullberg, was born Aug. 3, 1908 (d. 1999). Her work was a great uplift and modernization of Swedish ballet, starting in 1950 with her version of Fröken Julie, based on the Strindberg play of the same name.

In the 1960s Cullberg headed her own ballet company, after working for the London Royal Ballet in the mid 1950s. She continued choreographing major plays and operas until her retirement in 1985.

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