March 1: Today in Dance

Born Today: Else Fisher-Bergman

Swedish choreographer Else Fisher-Bergman (1918–2006) was briefly married to famed director Ingmar Bergman in the 1940s. Fisher-Bergman appeared in several Swedish films and wrote children’s books, including Beppo the Clown, which she made into a dance pantomime, produced by Bergman, in 1942. Their best-known project was the groundbreaking movie, The Seventh Seal (1957), for which…