Honing in on local nights, and independent venues ‘Together On the Floor’ taken across various dance floors in the North West situates itself in a wider lineage of nightlife photography which takes seriously the experience of people on a night out. As the dancers in the images cling to each other in their best dress while outside the dancefloor the United Kingdom experiences an ever-increasing rise of the cost of living and political turmoil, the project poses the coming together of people as a holy holy activity, and invites you to see it so too. 

The poem displayed below is from an ongoing collaborative relationship between Sasha Shuttleworth and Kerim Kaylon, ;In The Heart of The Recession’ 2023 is a record and a prayer created out of a sense of desperation to not forget in easier times the devastation created by fourteen years of austerity.  Scan the QR code to listen in full.

Together On The Floor is a live Project, updated and exhibited as it grows.

Dancers in Manchester for Brazilian night Nossa at YESMCR, Soup, inc dj’s Donna Leake, Mi Gusta

 

Gig For Gaza Fuel & Withi Public Hall South Manchester, Bloom Exhibition The DBA Cheetham Hill

Danvers, 0800 disco Leeds, Machester So La Flair, Canal Street.

 

Sounds Of The Other City, Old Abbey Tap House

Riot Garden, Withington Public Hall, 2023

 

The Witching Hour, Manchester 2023

Withington Pride, // Riot Garden Takeover 2023