{"id":2102236,"date":"2026-08-20T00:00:00","date_gmt":"2026-08-19T21:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/analyse.optim.biz\/?p=2102236"},"modified":"2026-08-20T00:00:00","modified_gmt":"2026-08-19T21:00:00","slug":"wonderland-346","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/analyse.optim.biz\/?p=2102236","title":{"rendered":"Wonderland"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Ahead of All Points East\u2019s weekend debut this Friday, we spoke to 11 of your favourite festival-bound artists to get their cheat codes on what makes them boogie<\/strong>.<\/h3>\n
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Who doesn\u2019t like to dance? It\u2019s a celebration of movement, an excursion of bad energy. Something you do with loved ones, strangers or just by yourself. It\u2019s one of life\u2019s untouchable joys.\u00a0<\/p>\n

What makes us dance varies on the person. Some like a swooning salsa, some an Irish jig, others heavy drums and a wobbly bass. In the case of R&B\u2019s hottest, kwn? \u201cTequila and pretty women.\u201d<\/p>\n

Ahead of London\u2019s day festival series kicking off tomorrow, we asked eleven acts who are set to descend on Victoria Park to answer a single, definitive question: What Makes You Dance?<\/p>\n

Femi Koleoso, Ezra Collective<\/strong><\/p>\n

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\u201cGood Music.\u201d<\/p>\n

Destin Conrad<\/strong><\/p>\n

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\u201cTequila, a good song and the people I love.\u201d<\/p>\n

The Femcels<\/strong><\/p>\n

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\u201cBBC Radio 4.\u201d<\/p>\n

Rose Gray<\/strong><\/p>\n

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\u201cA basement, my best friends, a really good DJ who just gets it, and perfect lighting. Also listening to my new demos ( I dance a lot to them hehe).\u201d<\/p>\n

Nova Twins<\/strong><\/p>\n

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Amy Love \u2013 \u201cIt\u2019s all about the tunes. When the DJ starts spinning 90s and early 2000s R&B, we\u2019ll be dancing all night. Also \u2013 margaritas.\u201d<\/p>\n

Georgia South \u2013 \u201cReceiving good news! The body\u2019s natural response to joy is a lil bum wiggle hehe! Also, lots of tequila shots and 90s girl bangers!\u201d<\/p>\n

Natanya<\/strong><\/p>\n

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\u201cBIG DRUMS AND HEAVY BASS.\u201d<\/p>\n

Bricknasty<\/strong><\/p>\n

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\u201cPure fresh house music. Belters only and jazzy especially.\u201d<\/p>\n

Rochelle Jordan<\/strong><\/p>\n

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\u201cSoulfulness and rhythm. Especially those rhythms that breathe, leaving just enough space to pull you in before they drop you back into the groove. I find that feeling anywhere from R&B to techno. Genre has never mattered as much to me as feeling. If the music has soul, space, and movement built into it, my body responds before my mind does.\u201d<\/p>\n

PARTYOF2<\/strong><\/p>\n

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\u201cIt doesn\u2019t matter if it\u2019s hip-hop, punk, r&b, pop, or something in between. There\u2019s something undeniable about an infectious rhythm that forces you to move no matter how you feel in that moment.\u201d<\/p>\n

Jessie Murph<\/strong><\/p>\n

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\u201cAnything that pulls me out of my head and back into my heart.\u201d<\/p>\n

kwn<\/strong><\/p>\n

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\u201cTequila and pretty women.\u201d<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/section>\n

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Wonderland WHAT MAKES YOU DANCE?\u00a0 Ahead of All Points East\u2019s weekend debut this Friday, we spoke to 11 of your favourite festival-bound artists to get their cheat codes on what makes them boogie. Who doesn\u2019t like to dance? It\u2019s a celebration of movement, an excursion of bad energy. Something you do with loved ones, strangers […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[226,257],"class_list":["post-2102236","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-crawlmanager","tag-wonderlandmagazine-com"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/analyse.optim.biz\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2102236","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/analyse.optim.biz\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/analyse.optim.biz\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/analyse.optim.biz\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/analyse.optim.biz\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=2102236"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/analyse.optim.biz\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2102236\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/analyse.optim.biz\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2102236"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/analyse.optim.biz\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2102236"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/analyse.optim.biz\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2102236"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}