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b'"The dance floor is a portal and a transmission tool in addition to being a technology of togetherness." The British author\\u2019s new book, Dance Your Way Home, offers a sociocultural history of the dance floor.\\n\\nEmma Warren has been documenting grassroots music culture since co-founding Jockey Slut magazine in the mid \'90s. From those early years to subsequent stints at THE FACE and Brixton\\u2019s youth-run Live Magazine, her journey of personal growth has become intertwined with nightlife.\\n\\nIn this episode, the UK author speaks with Aaron Gonsher, former editor-in-chief of the now-defunct Red Bull Music Academy, about her new book, Dance Your Way Home: A Journey Through The Dance Floor. Writing about how music thrives through in-person connections and physical spaces, she provides a social history of the dance floor while highlighting the power of communion.\\n\\nTheir conversation is a fascinating and far-ranging one; they speak about writing from the heart and Warren\'s deep connections with nightlife communities. She also talks about how the dance floor acted as a palliative in times of personal strife. "As I was writing [the book] and working it out through the writing, I realised that the less my dad could move or had control over his body, the more I needed to dance and have control over mine," she says of her father\'s disability. "So, I feel this absolute connection to the strength which you bring on the dance floor: that core control, that tightening of your body, that loosening of your limbs when you\'re moving and just how important that was to me\\u2014and what a life saver, really."\\n\\nWarren is also the author of three other books, including Make Some Space: Tuning Into Total Refreshment Centre, Document Your Culture: A Manual and Steam Down: Or How Things Begin. Listen to the conversation to hear her thoughts on why we dance together and what dancing tells us about ourselves.'