Helena Wulff

Helena Wulff born February 7, 1954 in Stockholm, is a professor of Social anthropology at Stockholm University. She is best known for her writing on national identity, cultural studies and the anthropology of dance, in particular, the relationship between dance and society, social memory, habitus, doxa, modernity, and place. She has done ethnographies of ballet companies in Sweden, London, and New York. Helena Wulff started dance training as a toddler. She attended a ballet school in Stockholm and was trained by a Latvian couple, a former ballet director and a former principal dancer. Wulff was taught under the Vaganova method, a Russian method of teaching classical ballet. An injury prevented her from pursuing a professional career at...