Out to the Dancers
Explore personal stories around the power of music, dance and community with Dance Your Way Home author Emma Warren and Ezra Collective’s Femi Koleoso.
Ezra Collective’s Femi Koleoso and author and Dance Your Way Home co-curator Emma Warren share common ground. In 2019, Ezra Collective appeared in Warren’s self-published book Make Some Space.
A few years later, Koleoso requested an early copy of Dance Your Way Home, and the band read it as they were working on the album that became their multi-award-winning Dance, No One’s Watching (2024).
Outspoken advocates for the ways music and dancing can unite people, they discuss how shared dance floors have appeared in each other’s work.
They delve into stories and moments they’ve experienced on the dance floor, along with their important connections to the people and places that carve out space for the next generation, in youth clubs and music projects.
Need to know
A post-show book signing takes place with Emma Warren with copies of her latest book, Dance Your Way Home, available for purchase.
For your visit
This event is held at the Purcell Room Southbank Centre
The Purcell Room is located in the Queen Elizabeth Hall, which is open from 90 minutes before events start until they finish. It’s closed at all other times.
Plan your visit
The Purcell Room is an auditorium located within our Queen Elizabeth Hall.
Getting here
Our address is Southbank Centre, Belvedere Road, London, SE1 8XX.
The nearest tube stations to us are Waterloo and Embankment; Waterloo is also the nearest train station. And more than 20 different London bus routes pass within 500 metres of our venues. More information on getting here by rail, road or river is available on our Getting here page.
We’re cash-free
Please note that we’re unable to accept cash payments across our venues.
Access
We’re working hard to remove barriers, so that our facilities and events can be accessible to as many people as possible.
All help points, toilets, performance and exhibition spaces at the Southbank Centre are accessible to all, as are the cafes, bars and restaurants. We also have excellent public transport links with step-free access.
All information about booking wheelchair spaces, step-free access, blue badge parking, access maps and guides and other help available whilst you’re here, including details about our Access Scheme, can be found on our Access page.
Food & drink
From coffee to cocktails, filling favourites to fine dining, plus some of London’s best street food – it’s all here at the Southbank Centre.