Dancing Identities is a continuing project exploring identity within the Northern Soul Dancefloor. The series is an ink monoprint of the dancefloor mapping the steps and movements of Shaafi Parvez through gestural mark making and dance. The prints are hand framed on a tray frame using scrap floor board to resemble a polished wood dancefloor.

A monoprint of a Northern Soul dancefloor, marked with feet and hands through dance.

This print is taken from the song Crying Over You by Duke Browner.

Crying Over You, 107x91cm, Monoprint on Paper

Shaafi Parvez dances to Crying Over You by Duke Browner on an ink covered sheet which is then monoprinted.

Crying Over You, May 2023 (Shaafi)

This print is taken from the song Ton of Dynamite by Frankie (Love Man) Crocker.

Shaafi Parvez dances to Ton of Dynamite by Frankie Crocker on an ink covered sheet which is then monoprinted.

Ton of Dynamite, May 2023 (shaafi)

Dancing Identities

An archive of dance videos from all over the world filmed i n kitchens and work spaces.

A collection of Home Dance videos sent in after various call outs asking for people to dance at work or in their homes.

Northern Soul: Outside the Floor

Dancing Identities is a continuing project exploring identity within the Northern Soul Dancefloor. The series is an ink monoprint of the dancefloor mapping the steps and movements of Shaafi Parvez through gestural mark makin...

Archie Hassall

Final work

Crying Over You, 107x91cm, Monoprint on Paper

Crying Over You, May 2023 (Shaafi)

Ton of Dynamite, May 2023 (shaafi)

Research and process

Northern Soul: Outside the Floor

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