Birgit Cullberg, a pioneering experimental choreographer in Sweden who earned an international reputation through her intense dramatic ballets and vigorous social-protest pieces, died on Wednesday in Stockholm, where she lived. She was 91.
Although Miss Cullberg was a disciple of the German Expressionist choreographer Kurt Jooss, her own style fused modern dance and ballet. She was resident choreographer of the Royal Swedish Ballet from 1951 to 1957, and her most famous works were danced by ballet companies throughout the world.
She was the mother of Mats Ek - a Swedish choreographer or re-made Giselle to a modern dance.
Title - Birgit Cullberg, 91, Swedish Choreographer
Author - Anna Kisselgoff
Published - 1999
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