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Faber secures Warren's 'intimate foray onto the dancefloor'
Faber has secured Dance Your Way Home, a "landmark social history of the dance floor" from Emma Warren.
Alexa von Hirschberg, publishing director, acquired world all-language rights from Cathryn Summerhayes at Curtis Brown. The book will be published on 16th March 2023.
Dance Your Way Home is an "intimate foray onto the dance floor" that is part cultural history and part memoir. The synopsis reads: "Dance is unstoppable expression. Each gesture, flex, slide or shape we make in response to music contains communication and history. We absorb or reject each other’s movement in order to signify that we’re part of a community, or to indicate that we’re not. It shapes us, as we make shapes. Movement is bound to music, not separate from it."
The publisher added: "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 egalitarian communication across borders and languages; the part that speaks to ordinary dancing, hesitant dancers, and the joy of moving to music."
Warren is also the author of Make Some Space: Tuning into Total Refreshment Centre (Sweet Machine) and she published Document Your Culture in spring 2020, designed as a companion piece to Make Some Space.
