‘That’s where I found my family’: dancefloor devotees on hedonistic moves and healing grooves

A new season at London’s Southbank Centre is inspired by Emma Warren’s book Dance Your Way Home, about the potency of communal movement. She and other artists involved explain why the dancefloor is their happy placeEmma Warren, author of Dance Your Way Home and co-curator of the festival: I remember someone asking me, ‘Where’s your happy place?’ I said it’s in the middle of the dancefloor. They thought that was funny, as most people would think of somewhere solitary, in nature, under a tree, but I was like, no, my happy place is in the squash, surrounded by a lot of people, where your movement is connected to everybody else’s.Dance Your Way Home is at the Southbank Centre, London, from 23 July to 29 August Continue reading...

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