Margot Lander, Date of Birth, Place of Birth, Date of Death
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Danish ballet dancer
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Place of Birth: Oslo, Eastern Norway, Norway
About Margot Lander
- Margot Ella Florentz Lander (23 August 1910 – 18 July 1961), a prima ballerina with the Royal Danish Ballet, was the most important Danish ballerina of the first half of the twentieth century. Born in Oslo to Ella Florentz (1891-?), an opera singer, and Marx Gerharh (1871–1938), a journalist, Lander began studying at the Royal Danish Ballet School in 1917 and joined the Royal Danish Ballet in 1928.
- Two years later she married Harald Lander (1905–1971), a dancer and choreographer who became the ballet-master at the Royal Danish Ballet. Margot Lander became principal dancer in 1933 and Denmark’s first prima ballerina in 1942.
- She danced key roles in Harald Lander's ballets, in August Bournonville’s repertoire as well as in Coppélia and Swan Lake before retiring in 1950.
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