Carina Ari Foundations

Carina Ari Award Medal

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

La danse pour les oiseaux

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).

The Foundation´s board of directors:

Chairman: Professor Bengt Häger
Other board members:
Ellen Rasch, première danseuse
Gunilla Jensen Peyron, dramaturge and dance critic

The Carina Ari Award 2001:

The Carina Ari Foundation Gold Medal for 2001 was awarded to the choreographer and dancer Merce Cunningham.

The motivation of the jury was:

For his numerous important guest performances in Sweden, including a world première in Stockholm,
for generously accepting young Swedish dancers at his school,
and for opening up new, unforeseen dimensions in the art of movement for us all.