Birgit Cullberg

Birgit Ragnhild Cullberg (3 August 1908 – 8 September 1999) was a Swedish choreographer.

[1] Her father Carl Cullberg was a bank director and her mother was Elna Westerström.

[2] Cullberg was born in Nyköping[3] and was married from 1942 to 1949 to actor Anders Ek.

[1] In 1960, Cullberg was appointed director and choreographer at the Stockholm City Theatre.

[6] The Swedish Arts Grants Committee instituted the Cullberg scholarship in her honour, and she was awarded an honorary professorship at Stockholm University, where she had studied when she was young.