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Sep 23, 1936 Oslo, Eastern Norway, Norway Died on 19 Dec 2016 (aged 80)
Norwegian dancer and professor
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About Anne Borg
- Anne Borg (née Nicolaisen; 28 September 1936 – 19 December 2016) was a Norwegian ballet dancer and choreographer. She was born in Oslo to engineer Reidar Nicolaisen and visual artist Ingrid Sigmundsen.
- She studied ballet with Gerd Kjølaas and Rita Tori, danced at varied theatres in Oslo, and eventually as solo dancer at Den Norske Ballett.
- She was appointed at the Norwegian National Opera and Ballet from 1960.
- Her breakthrough dancing role was as "Swanhilda" in Copélia in 1962.
- She was appointed ballet director at the Opera from 1970-77, and a second period from 1983 to 1988.
- She served as rector at the Norwegian National Academy of Ballet from 1991 to 1995.
- In 1988 she was decorated Knight, First Class of the Order of St.
- Olav.Borg received the Oslo City art award in 1978 and the Arts Council Norway Honorary Award in 2013.
