Irja Hagfors

She participated actively in the new dance interpretation of the public polemic,[obscure] achieving this most prominently in the Tulenkantajat, in the 5th to 10th editions of the journal in 1929, together with Antti Halonen and Raoul af Hällström.

But unlike her opponents, she was able to clearly see the potential for a new dance classical ballet a deeper and more diverse expression.

[1] Hagfors studied for a few years in Central Europe in the Rudolf von Laban movement analysis and the German dance theatre.

[obscure] Hagfors made a significant cultural act when she translated Bertolt Brecht's book on theater theory into Finnish (1954).

[3] In 1954, Irja Hagfors married Atos Wirtanen, a writer and Member of Parliament, who died in 1979.