Welcome to the homepage of the network of dance scholars at the universities of Copenhagen, Gothenburg, Stockholm, Tampere and Trondheim (NTNU) and the project Dance in Nordic Spaces (1.10.2007 - 30.6.2012). The project aims to investigate dance and dancing as participants in the development of “Norden”, with a focus on comparative perspectives from the late 19th through the 20th century. The project belongs to the research program Nordic Spaces: Formation of States, Societies and Regions, Cultural Encounters, and Idea and Identíty Production in Northern Europe after 1800.

On this site, you can find information about this project, on our exploratory workshops and Nordic dance research on a more common level. You are welcome to comment our work and co-operate with us.

The project is administrated by the Department of Music Anthropology, University of Tampere, Finland.

Pictures

Left: Springar fra Nordre Sunnmøre

Right up: Stockholm championships in dancesport 1938

Right down, left: Stina Ahlberg and Mattias Ekholm in For Better, For Worse by Efva Lilja, photo Hans Skoglund

Right down, right: Beáta Palya, Hungarian Dress, folk dance group Motora, photo Jussi Hynninen