Skolt Saami Dance: The Transformative Journey of Tradition, Resilience, and the Arctic Quadrille

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Petri Hoppu (Oulu University of Applied Sciences, Finland) Dr Marko Jouste

Skolt Saami Dance

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ISBN: 9781350249417

The Transformative Journey of Tradition, Resilience, and the Arctic Quadrille

Petri Hoppu (Oulu University of Applied Sciences, Finland), Dr Marko Jouste

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English

Bloomsbury Academic
19 February 2026

Folk dancing

Series: Dance in the 21st Century

This is the first book in English exploring the quadrille as danced among the Skolt Saami, one of the indigenous Saami peoples in Northern Europe.

The Skolt quadrille - the focus of this book - offers a fascinating case of transnational movement of dance forms, as well as insights on a living dance tradition in a specific indigenous culture. Today, the Skolts’ quadrille is a social dance with six figures, and it is most often danced by four couples. The dance resembles quadrilles in northern Russia, but its historical roots are in the imperial French quadrille.

This book traces the history of the Skolt Saami through the lens of their dance and what is known of the Skolt quadrilles from historical sources. This is contrasted with contemporary narratives and practices, including interview materials with practitioners. The Skolt quadrille is examined as embodied action and as performance, taking place amid changing historical, social and cultural discourses. The book considers how the dance represents issues attached to the Skolt people's identity as a religious minority, both among the Finnish majority and the Saami; an evacuated community, living amid other Saami groups and Finns; and as Finnish citizens, most speaking Finnish as their first language.

By: Petri Hoppu (Oulu University of Applied Sciences Finland), Dr Marko Jouste
Imprint: Bloomsbury Academic
Country of Publication: United Kingdom
Dimensions: Height: 232mm, Width: 156mm, Spine: 20mm
Weight: 280g
ISBN: 9781350249417
ISBN 10: 1350249416
Series: Dance in the 21st Century
Pages: 216
Publication Date: 19 February 2026
Audience: College/higher education , Primary
Format: Paperback
Publisher's Status: Active

Petri Hoppu is Principal Lecturer of Dance (Oulu University of Applied Sciences) and Adjunct Professor (Docent) in dance studies (Tampere University), as well as co-editor of Nordic Dance Spaces (Ashgate 2014). His areas of expertise incude theory and methodology in dance anthropology, research of Finnish-Karelian and Saami vernacular dances and Nordic folk dance revitalization.