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Dance Your Way Home: A Journey Through the Dancefloor

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Premium Digital includes access to our premier business column, Lex, as well as 15 curated newsletters covering key business themes with original, in-depth reporting. Publisher Faber's blurb about 'Dance Your Way Home' reads: "This book is about the kind of ordinary dancing you and I might do in our kitchens when a favourite tune comes on. Weaving together memoir and social history, it explores dancing through stories that include her memories of 1980s school discos, moral panics in 1930s Ireland, and the grime and dubstep milieus of London in the early 21st century.

Not sure about you but when we were still in primary school aged 11 the youth club was where we went to do (admittedly pretty terrible) breakdancing to the sound of Streetsounds Electro compilations whilst eating crisps. She asks questions about what dancing means through the lens of Britishness, Englishness and, in turn, what those terms even mean.She shows how we each evolve our own personal dance, the culmination of the cultural and interpersonal lives we’ve led. She enlists Damon to walk – ie compete – in his first ball and blows his mind by deconstructing the American dream as “being able to fit into the straight white world … isn’t that what you’re trying to do? The Financial Times and its journalism are subject to a self-regulation regime under the FT Editorial Code of Practice. That feeling on the dancefloor that you’re all aiming at something, and trying to create something, is really, really powerful. The dancefloor can be aplace in which people who have different life experiences, who walk through the world in away that brings different responses from the state, can have acommunal experience,” Warren says.

So when you’re dancing, you’ve got that basic thing, which is incredibly individual, but then you’ve got the way that you’re feeling that day, that morning, that evening, that year.Alternatively, the “dancing” could be a metaphor for social activism and funk music a symbol of social justice. She weaves together the possibilities of intergenerational dance, of cross-cultural dance (at one point, she shows a couple at the English folk music and dance centre Cecil Sharp House videos of Chicago footwork dancers), asks questions about class, and seeks to imagine something more unified and accessible than the current situation in this country allows for. Blanca Rodriguez works in a nail salon by day and is breaking away from the House of Abundance by night: one of several teams competing in the underground ballroom scene, populated mostly by black and Latino trans and gay people. PLEASE NOTE: due to extremely high demand, this title will take three to five working days to be dispatched.

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