Dance Your Way Home: A Journey Through The Dancefloor (Faber & Faber)

What does dancing tell us about ourselves, individually and collectively? Dancing doesn't just refract the music and culture within which it evolves; it generates new music and culture. When we speak only of the music. we lose part of the story – the part that finds us dancing as children on the toes of adults; the part that triggers communication across borders and languages; the part that speaks to ordinary dancing, hesitant dancers and the joy of moving to music.

Featuring chapters on pre-school tap and ballet, the reggae dance, youth club and school discos, acid house, jungle and dubstep, new London jazz and mid-age contemporary dance. It covers a lot of different places in the UK as well as sidestepping into Ireland, South Africa and the birthplace of house – Chicago.

Dance Your Way Home is an intimate foray onto the dancefloor – wherever and whenever it may be – that speaks to the heart of what it is that makes us move.

**Postage costs reflect actual cost of posting – which is eye-raising!**

"Essential reading from one of the greatest minds to ever document the inner workings of the rave. Your bookshelf needs this." Charlie Dark

"For anyone who has ever danced – on a famous dancefloor, in a youth centre, in a kitchen – comes a wonderful book so full if knowledge, love and joy in relation to that simple and complex thing: moving your body." Wendy Erskine

"This book is serious! I wish Emma had written this at the start of my years behind the decks. It's a fast track in understanding the secret formula that brings on collective euphoria through music and dance. It's brilliant." Gilles Peterson

"Dance Your Way Home is an invitation to visit illegal basements, township safe spaces, community centres. youth clubs and some of the world's most influential nightclubs to experience the release and healing power of the dancefloor... told with the emotional authority and integrity of lived experience." Richard King

400pp hardback book, with dust jacket. Published by Faber & Faber on March 16th 2023.