Inga Jacobi
Norwegian ballet dancer (1891-1937)
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| Intro | Norwegian ballet dancer (1891-1937) | |
| Places | Norway | |
| is | Dancer Ballet dancer | |
| Work field | Dancing | |
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| Birth | 2 July 1891, Magdeburg |
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Inga Jacobi (2 July 1891 – 1937) was a German-born ballet dancer and choreographer who settled in Norway.
She was born in Magdeburg to engineer Bernhard Theodor Albert Jacobi and Ragna Hansen Mjøen, and was a cousin of actor Fridtjof Mjøen. She settled Kristiania in 1915, and married art historian Henrik Grevenor in 1919. She studied ballet with Émile Jaques-Dalcroze. Among her students was Gerd Kjølaas. She died in Germany in 1937.