There was a time not long ago when, for most around the world, tearing up the dance floor was but a distant memory. It’s a moment that Claire Marie Healy, the editor of A24’s latest coffee table book On the Dance Floor: Spinning Out on Screen, remembers all too well. “We started developing the book in 2021 as we were coming out of a series of lockdowns,” she says. “With dance floors having been shut during that time—and only really just starting to get going again—it felt like an interesting moment to reflect on what dance floors really mean to us, and what they have meant to us. And what they can mean to us in the future.”
Across 424 playfully designed, lavishly illustrated pages, On the Dance Floor does just that. “I think it’s definitely a lot of bang for your buck,” Healy says, in something of an understatement. The weighty tome takes deep dives into some of the most memorable dances from film, art, and literature—everything from medieval woodcuts of danses macabres to a still of Jennifer Lopez on the pole in Hustlers, and an extract from Edith Wharton’s The Age of Innocence to a conversation between Gaspar Noé and choreographer Nina McNeely about the former’s drug fueled-frenzy of a film, Climax (2018). There are also a series of original essays and so-called “dance floor dispatches,” the latter from various artists, musicians, and writers meditating on what exactly it is that lends the dance floor its enduring cultural potency.
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