Ask la Cour

Ask la Cour Rasmussen (born ) and is the son of ballet dancer and former Royal Danish Ballet associate artistic director Lise la Cour and conductor . His maternal half-brother, Nilas Martins, was a principal dancer with the New York City Ballet. As a child, he had no interest in ballet, instead preferring soccer and skateboarding. However, when he was nine, he overheard his mother telling a friend the Royal Danish Ballet School needed more boys, so he decided to audition for the school, and was accepted. and was soon cast in solo roles. He made his company debut in Balanchine's The Nutcracker.

In his career, he had danced 60 ballets, including works by George Balanchine, Jerome Robbins, Peter Martins, August Bournonville, Christopher Wheeldon, Justin Peck, Alexei Ratmansky, Benjamin Millepied, Jorma Elo, Susan Stroman, Lauren Lovette, Boris Eifman, Robert Binet and Richard Tanner. He also originated roles in some ballets, such as Wheeldon's Shambards and After the Rain, Ratmansky's Voices, Peck's The Most Incredible Thing and Lovette's Not Our Fate.

In January 2020, la Cour became the artistic director of the Commack, New York-based Frank Ohman School of Ballet and New York Dance Theatre. He then returned to the Royal Danish Ballet to teach and coach apprentices.