{{Short description|Norwegian dancer (1937–2017)}} {{Infobox person | image = | caption = | name = Hanne Skram | birth_date = {{Birth date|1937|11|14|mf=y}} | birth_place = Bærum, Norway | death_date = {{Death date and age|2017|01|11|1937|11|14|mf=y}} | death_place = Oslo, Norway | occupation = Dancer | yearsactive = | spouse = Knut Skram | children = | mother = | father = | relatives = }}
'''Hanne Marie Skram''' (née '''Thorstensen''', November 14, 1937 – January 11, 2017) was a Norwegian dancer.<ref name="SNL">{{cite encyclopedia |title=Hanne Skram |encyclopedia=Store norske leksikon |publisher=Kunnskapsforlaget |location=Oslo |url=https://snl.no/Hanne_Skram |access-date=April 12, 2022 |year=2021 |language=no}}</ref><ref>{{cite book |last1=Åstrand |first1=Hans |title=Sohlmans musiklexikon |date=1975 |publisher=Sohlman |location=Stockholm |page=223}}</ref><ref>{{cite encyclopedia |editor-last=Holmesland |editor-first=Arthur |title=Hanne Skram |encyclopedia=Aschehougs konversasjonsleksikon |year=1971 |publisher=Aschehoug |volume=17 |location=Oslo |page=439 |language=no}}</ref>
Skram trained at Alfhild Grimsgaard's ballet school<ref name="Nekrolog">{{cite news |title=Nekrolog: Hanne Skram |url=https://www.aftenposten.no/nekrolog/i/dEqOB/nekrolog-hanne-skram |access-date=April 12, 2022 |work=Aftenposten |date=January 17, 2017}}</ref><ref name="Niehaus">{{cite book |last1=Niehaus |first1=Max |title=Ballett Faszination: vom Studio zur Bühne |date=1972 |publisher=Nymphenburger Verlagshandlung |location=Munich |page=177}}</ref> and in Paris, London, and New York.<ref name="SNL"/> She became a dancer at the Norwegian National Opera and Ballet in 1959.<ref name="Nekrolog"/><ref name="Niehaus"/> She became the principal dancer in 1968 and had a number of solo roles.<ref name="Niehaus"/> For 18 years she led the Hanne Skram Ballet School. She was married to Knut Skram,<ref name="SNL"/><ref name="Nekrolog"/> with whom she had two children: the lawyer Kristin Skram Brændvang and the composer Henrik Skram.<ref>{{cite news |last1=Bjørhovde |first1=Hilde |title=Henter Hollywood-dirigent til Nasjonalballettens Hamlet-fantasi |url=https://www.aftenposten.no/kultur/i/8w8542/henter-hollywood-dirigent-til-nasjonalballettens-hamlet-fantasi |access-date=April 12, 2022 |work=Aftenposten |date=September 14, 2018}}</ref><ref>{{cite encyclopedia |last1=Nergaard |first1=Knut |title=Henrik Skram |encyclopedia=Store norske leksikon |publisher=Kunnskapsforlaget |location=Oslo |url=https://snl.no/Henrik_Skram |access-date=April 12, 2022 |year=2021 |language=no}}</ref>
==Solo dance performances== * Brian Macdonald's ''Pointe Counterpointe'' (retitled ''Aimez-vous Bach?'') * Birgit Cullberg's ''Miss Julie'' as Julie * Frédéric Chopin's ''Les Sylphides'' * Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky's ''Swan Lake'' as Odette * Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky's ''The Nutcracker'' * Sergei Prokofiev's ''Romeo and Juliet'' as Juliet * Sergei Prokofiev's ''Cinderella'' as Cinderella
==Filmography== * ''Millionær for en aften'' as a dancer
==References== {{reflist}}
==External links== * {{IMDb name|0861789|name=Hanne Skram}} * [https://sceneweb.no/nb/artist/21242/Hanne_Skram Hanne Skram] at Sceneweb * [https://filmfront.no/aktor/46266/hanne-thorstensen Hanne Skram] at Filmfront
{{DEFAULTSORT:Skram, Hanne}} Category:1937 births Category:2017 deaths Category:20th-century Norwegian actresses Category:Norwegian female dancers Category:Norwegian dancers Category:People from Bærum