Alice O'Grady

Professor on club culture, participation, and dancefloor wellbeing

Based in Leeds, United Kingdom · From United Kingdom

A conference talk, not a performance set. She’s there to speak on club culture, participatory practice, and the social value of dancefloors, with the focus on wellbeing and belonging rather than music playback.

More about Alice O'Grady

Professor of Applied Performance at the University of Leeds, working on electronic dance music culture, participatory performance, and research in club and festival settings. Her writing includes early Dancecult work on underground club culture and festival scenes, and a later strand on older women in electronic dance music culture.

Playing

2026-10-23 12:30 · Why Humans Still Need Dancefloors? · Felix Meritis

For fans of

Hillegonda Rietveld, Sarah Thornton, Will Straw

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