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Birgit Cullberg

1908 - 1999

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Birgit Ragnhild Cullberg (3 August 1908 – 8 September 1999) was a Swedish choreographer. Her father Carl Cullberg was a bank director and her mother was Elna Westerström. Cullberg was born in Nyköping and was married from 1942 to 1949 to actor Anders Ek. She was the mother of Niklas Ek in 1943, and twins Mats Ek, and Malin Ek in 1945. Read more on Wikipedia

Her biography is available in different languages on Wikipedia. Birgit Cullberg is the 78th most popular dancer (down from 75th in 2019), the 811th most popular biography from Sweden (down from 693rd in 2019) and the 2nd most popular Swedish Dancer.

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Among DANCERS

Among dancers, Birgit Cullberg ranks 78 out of 116. Before her are Marie Rambert, Alvin Ailey, Sylvie Guillem, Alicia Markova, Olga Spessivtseva, and Kenneth MacMillan. After her are Frankie Manning, Natalia Dudinskaya, Joaquín Cortés, Avdotia Istomina, Birju Maharaj, and Katherine Dunham.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1908, Birgit Cullberg ranks 306. Before her are Enrique Peralta Azurdia, José Antonio Remón Cantera, Paula Mollenhauer, Vano Muradeli, Hans Werner Richter, and Maximos V Hakim. After her are Osvaldo Velloso de Barros, Luis de Souza Ferreira, Rostislav Plyatt, Karl Warner, Antonio Pesenti, and Concha Piquer. Among people deceased in 1999, Birgit Cullberg ranks 211. Before her are Christopher Cockerell, Bing Xin, Raúl Silva Henríquez, Lloyd La Beach, Rick Danko, and Hideo Itokawa. After her are Celso Torrelio, Sarah Kane, João Cabral de Melo Neto, Alain Peyrefitte, Umyar Mavlikhanov, and Robert Douglas.

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In Sweden

Among people born in Sweden, Birgit Cullberg ranks 811 out of 1,879. Before her are Hugo Wieslander (1889), Gunnar Johansson (1924), Gerhard Louis De Geer (1854), August Malmström (1829), Harald Edelstam (1913), and Sven Markelius (1889). After her are Gunnar Lindström (1896), Rosa Taikon (1926), Carl Hårleman (1886), Quorthon (1966), Sven Gustaf Wingqvist (1876), and Ingemar Johansson (1924).

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Among DANCERS In Sweden

Among dancers born in Sweden, Birgit Cullberg ranks 2. Before her are Marie Taglioni (1804).

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