ABSTRACT
This chapter surveys the whole range of dancing activities across the Nordic countries in the first three decades of the twentieth century through a class reading. It discusses how the parent's class influences the offspring's path. The hypothesis is that there is a correlation between the social backgrounds of the leading or most visible individuals of a dance category and how they contribute to situating this dancing, for instance, through the social spaces with which they engage when dancing. The folk dance agents selected were pioneers of the folk dance movement and were identified with the advice of fellow folk dance researchers in the other Nordic countries, from among people who collected and/or published dances, people who were important leaders or instructors, and people who wrote about folk dance. The most striking feature for Sweden is that there are eight individuals whose parents have a job requiring tertiary education in the folk dance category in theatre dance.
