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Letters: Sue Bingham helps organise a charity event where people of all ages can dance their cares away in a village hall, while Dave Mcglade worries about the loss of spaces for all forms of dance

21, Mar, 2023 @5:42 PM

In an isolated world, humans need to dance together more than ever – but we're running out of places to do it | John Harris

The demise of clubbing isn’t just a cultural loss, it’s an existential deprivation for generations who are coming of age, says Guardian columnist John Harris

John Harris

19, Mar, 2023 @1:00 PM

Tell me about it, stud: the rapturous return of the butch lesbian scene

With sold-out club nights from Bristol to Birmingham, a long-marginalised subculture is enjoying a brilliant post-pandemic resurgence

Ella Braidwood

08, Mar, 2023 @10:00 AM

Goth’s undead! The dark return of Britain’s spookiest subculture

From Wednesday Addams to Gen Z’s body-modified clubbers, the black-eyeliner brigade is back – and wearing its deathhawk hair higher than ever. But did it ever go away?

Sylvia Patterson

20, Feb, 2023 @6:00 AM

‘It was a proper shebeen, man!’: how Sistermatic blazed a trail for Black queer sound systems

Ahead of a one-off return, the founders of the pioneering Brixton lesbian night recall how they protected their clientele and why a new generation needs to ‘party with their auntie’

Jason Okundaye

15, Feb, 2023 @2:00 PM

‘Similar to criminal conspiracy’: draconian new law targets Italian ravers

Giorgia Meloni’s rightwing coalition passes bill that means event organisers can have their phones tapped and face six years in jail

Giorgio Ghiglione

06, Jan, 2023 @4:49 PM

DJ Sama’ Abdulhadi on techno and tenacity: ‘As a Palestinian you know life could be over in 10 minutes’

The dancefloor gave Abdulhadi freedom from the political pressures she faces as ‘a woman, an Arab and Palestinian’. Despite a set at a mosque threatening to land her in jail, she won’t stop in her pursuit of it

Dhruva Balram

06, Jan, 2023 @10:00 AM

New music for 2023: George Riley, the R&B songwriter and club kid who is switching on the joy

Her acclaimed debut album came out of a dark place – but the experimental London musician has a new lease of life for 2023

Christine Ochefu

02, Jan, 2023 @12:00 PM

Maxi Jazz: the calm eye in the centre of Faithless’s rave storm

Only Keith Flint and Maxim of the Prodigy rivalled Jazz in his command of the stage at the helm of a superstar 90s dance act – but there was more to him than his ability to energise a crowd

Gabriel Szatan

26, Dec, 2022 @11:09 AM

I’m an older man and I love to dance. What’s wrong with that? | Phil Hilton

Dancing brings joy and has huge health benefits, but would-be older clubbers like me too often meet suspicion and derision, says Phil Hilton

Phil Hilton

22, Dec, 2022 @10:00 AM

Socials club:best Insta and Twitter accounts capturing UK nightlife

Great nights out are gone too soon, often lost in a hungover haze. Thankfully, social media accounts are capturing the scenes that deserve to be remembered

Rosanna McLaughlin

22, Dec, 2022 @8:00 AM

The trip that finally conquered my desperate yearning to be cool | Megan Nolan

An encounter in a New York nightclub left me squirming with inadequacy, a feeling I thought I had left behind, says the writer Megan Nolan

Megan Nolan