Carina Ari Foundation

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	The award-winner in 1969 Dame Margot Fonteyn to the right: Carina Ari

Carina Ari Foundation

Carina Ari Stiftelsen

The purpose of the Carina Ari Foundation is to give the Carina Ari Award to persons who have commendably promoted Swedish dance.

This was the first foundation that Carina Ari started, and she participated in giving the first award to Birgit Cullberg in 1961.

The Award medal was sculpted by Carina Ari herself, and depicts her in a pose from her own ballet Månstrålen (The Moonbeam).

Background information on the donations and it's founder, see "About Carina" in Chapter 7.

Awardings

The Carina Ari Medal 2010

The Carina Ari Medal 2010 is awarded to NATHALIE RUIZ.

Amongst others, the medal was received by:
Birgit Cullberg, Birgit Åkesson, Mats Ek, Ivo Cramér, Marina Grut, Ana Laguna. Some foreign choreographers who have worked in Sweden and influenced swedish dance are Martha Graham, Merce Cunningham, Maurice Béjart, Serge Lifar, John Neumeier, Pina Bausch, Kurt Jooss, Antony Tudor, Jiri Kylian, and among dancers Margot Fonteyn, Erik Bruhn, Vladimir Vasiliev.

The Foundation´s board of directors:

Chairman: Professor Bengt Häger

Other board members:
Ellen Rasch, Première Danseuse, Royal Swedish Ballet
Gunilla Jensen Peyron, Head of Development, Music and
Dance (SVT Fiction), Dance Critic, Dramaturge
Professor Ana Laguna, Royal Court Dancer