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The Guardian - UK
The Guardian - UK
Entertainment
Lyndsey Winship

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

‘Friendship, internal strength, collaboration’ … the dancefloor awaits.
‘Friendship, internal strength, collaboration’ … the dancefloor awaits. Photograph: Robert Clayton/Alamy

‘A whole-body experience’

Emma 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.

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