Asta Mollerup, Date of Birth, Place of Birth, Date of Death
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Danish modern dancer and educator
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Place of Birth: Copenhagen, Capital Region of Denmark, Denmark
About Asta Mollerup
- Asta Malthea Mollerup (1881–1945) was a Danish dance teacher who was one of the first to introduce the Danes to modern dance, a new trend which was inspired by the American dancer Isadora Duncan and the German choreographer Mary Wigman.
- From 1914, she ran her own dancing school for children in Copenhagen and in 1927 she founded the Asta Mollerup School for Female Dancers (Asta Mollerup Danserindeskolen).
- Apart from the Royal Danish Academy of Music, it was Denmark's only dancing school.
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