Ellen Price

Ellen Price (the full name is Ellen Juliette Collin Price de Plane; June 21, 1878, Snekkersten - March 4, 1968, Brøndby Municipality) was a Danish ballerina and actress, a model for the statue The Little Mermaid in Copenhagen.

Ellen Price was born in the well-known artistic family: her father Andreas Nicolai Carl Price (1839–1909) and her mother Helga Collin (1841–1918) were ballet dancers in Royal Danish Theatre; the cousin of her father Juliette Price (1831–1906) was a Danish prima ballerina; other relatives were actors and musicians too.^[1]^[2]^[3]

In 1889 - 1895 Ellen Price was trained at school of Royal Danish Ballet^[1] and then arrived in theater of Royal Danish Ballet; she debuted on May, 28th 1895 — pas de trois in ballet "Window" (La Ventana) of composer Hans Christian Lumbye, choreographer is August Bournonville.^[1]^[2] In 1903 she became a prima ballerina of Royal Danish Ballet.

Among his roles: La Sylphide, Cinderella, Little Mermaid etc.

You Tube: Ellen Price filmed 1903 — La Sylphide (opening solo)
You Tube: Ellen Price filmed 1906 — La Sylphide (longer solo)

The role of the Little Mermaid gave her the most unexpected glory. Ballet The Little Mermaid, based on Hans Christian Andersen's fairy-tale and set to music by Fini Henriques, has been put by the choreographer Hans Beck (1861–1952) in 1909, Royal Danish Ballet.^[4] Once among spectators of ballet there was a Danish brewer and art collector Carl Jacobsen; this ballet has made upon him such strong impression that he has ordered to the sculptor Edvard Eriksen to make a statue of the Little Mermaid.^[5] The ballerina has refused to pose bared, and the sculptor has molded only her head. For a body he used his wife Eline Eriksen.^[6] The sculptor Edvard Eriksen created the bronze statue, which was unveiled on 23 August 1913. Carl Jacobsen presented a statue to the city. Now the statue The Little Mermaid became a symbol of Copenhagen.

Ellen Price worked in Royal Danish Ballet till 1913. Then she became the drama actress. She worked at drama theater of city Aarhus and has acted in two silent film.

Ellen Price died on March 4, 1968, Brøndby Municipality. She is buried in the small city Gudhjem on the Danish island Bornholm in a southwest part of Baltic Sea.^[7]

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Name	Price, Ellen
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Date of birth	June 21, 1878
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Date of death	March 4, 1968
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