Jenny Hasselquist

Jenny Hasselquist

Jenny Hasselquist c. 1915
Born Jenny Matilda Elisabet Hasselquist
31 July 1894
Stockholm, Sweden
Died June 8, 1978 (aged 83)
Stockholm, Sweden
Occupation Ballerina, actress

Jenny Matilda Elisabet Hasselquist, also Hasselqvist, (1894–1978) was a Swedish prima ballerina, film actress and ballet teacher.[1]

Biography

Born in Stockholm, Hasselquist attended the Swedish Opera's ballet school from 1906 and performed with the Royal Ballet from 1910.[2] In 1913, Michel Fokine noticed her talents and ensured she obtained solo roles in La Sylphide and Cleopatra. She became a prima ballerina at the Royal Ballet in 1915.[3]

In 1920, Hasselquist starred in Rolf de Maré's Ballets suédois in Paris. A talented dancer, she had a flair for the modern idiom.[4] However she left de Maré after just one season, apparently dissatisfied with her potential there.[5] She went on to play leading roles in many Swedish and some German silent films including Johan (1921), Vem dömer (1922) and The Hell Ship (1923).[6] She also appeared as a guest dancer in many of Europe's leading theatres including the Coliseum in London, the Théâtre des Champs-Élysées in Paris and the Deutsches Theater in Berlin.[3]

She had her own school in Stockholm, and from the mid-1930s, she taught at the Stockholm Opera's ballet school.[4] She died on 8 June 1978 in Täby, Sweden.[7]

References

  1. ↑ "Jenny Hasselquist" (in Swedish). Teater Sargasso. Retrieved 3 March 2014.
  2. ↑ "Jenny Hasselquist" (in Swedish). Nationalencyklopedin. Retrieved 3 March 2014.
  3. ↑ 3.0 3.1 "Hasselqvist, Jenny Matilda Elisabet" (in Swedish). Svensk uppslagsbok, Vol. 12. 1949. p. 1152. Retrieved 3 March 2014.
  4. ↑ 4.0 4.1 "Jenny Hasselquist" (in Swedish). Store Norske Leksikon. Retrieved 3 March 2014.
  5. ↑ Baer, Nancy Van Norman; Museum, Fashion Institute of Technology (New York, N.Y.). (1995). Paris modern: the Swedish Ballet, 1920-1925. Fine Arts Museums of San Francisco. p. 75. ISBN 978-0-88401-081-4.
  6. ↑ Toepfer, Karl Eric (1997). Empire of Ecstasy: Nudity and Movement in German Body Culture, 1910-1935. University of California Press. p. 153. ISBN 9780520918276.
  7. ↑ "Jenny Mathilda Elisabeth Hasselquist, premiärdansös, skådespelare" (in Swedish). Gultarp Genealogy. Retrieved 3 March 2014.

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