Birgit Åkesson
Swedish music educator
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Birgit Åkesson's Degrees
- PhD Music Education Lund University
- Masters Music Education Lund University
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(Suggest an Edit or Addition)According to Wikipedia, Anna Ida Birgit Åkesson, born 24 March 1908 in Malmö; died 24 March 2001 in Stockholm, was a Swedish choreographer, dancer and dance researcher. Biography Birgit Åkesson trained as a dancer at Mary Wigman's school in Dresden from 1929 to 1931. After having danced with her a few years, Åkesson knew she wanted something else from this art, but she could not quite put her finger on it yet. She wanted to explore the body's possibilities and limitations. She then decided to go to Paris and start from zero. According to her, she listened to her body and the memories that were stored in it. In 1934 she made her debut with her very own choreography at the Comédie-Française in Paris, but her real breakthrough came only in 1951, when she performed two solos, one in complete silence. After these performances the press went wild and she soon became one of the leading figures in European avant-garde dance.
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