ABSTRACT
This chapter addresses the impact the production of folk dance spaces has had on the embodied presentations and representations of a region. Folk dance events appear as a form of transnational cultural activity that has been shaped through organised and changing dance practices as well as ideals and ideologies of Nordic cooperation. The cooperation itself has been a complicated process during which the extension of a Nordic region has continuously been reviewed and imaginary geographies constructed. National symbols have been an essential part of all-Nordic folk dance events since the beginning. The folk dancers' Nordic ethnoscape was experienced as a real unity, which can be seen in the dance programmes of folk dance organisations and individual groups especially after the Second World War. The folk dance conference in Stockholm in February 1939 was the first to draw explicit guidelines for future cooperation.
