— This podcast is a spoken dance floor that brings together voices, bodies, experiences and memories of people who danced with us over the years. Produced slowly during the year 2021, with the closing of clubs and disappearances of a collective way of living the night, this podcast arose from the desire to keep dancing alive thanks to the oral memory of our dear guests. Our invitation was also accompanied by two questions to be answered in a personal way: to offer some of the knowledges acquired on the dance floor and their strategies for keeping active during isolation pandemic times and dancing towards an unknown future. We are immensely grateful to each guest for their participation, their generosity in sharing and their patience and understanding with our slow production process. Participating, speaking and dancing are Diego Bustamante, Anne Duffau, Pablo Fernández, Sonia Fernández Pan, Sabel Gavaldon, Ariadna Guiteras, Inish, Verónica Lehner, Manuela Lomba, Stephen McEvoy, Lucía Morales, Irina Mutt, OYOKO, Jay R Heald, Cristina Ramos, Eva Rowson, Tine Semb, Karina Sletten, Eirik Sördal, Kaeto Sweeney, Kentaro Terajima, and Carolina Velasco. Most voice notes were recorded between April–August 2021. One additional on New Years Eve, 2021.

Image credit: Sonia dancing to wake up a fermenting ginger beer made with Eva in Eva’s kitchen in Barcelona, 2017.

Editor’s note: In 2018 we, Eva Rowson and Sonia Fernández Pan, started a conversation from the dance floor thanks to the invitation and support of Bergen Techno Fanzine and Karmaklubb*. The first two episodes of We don’t stop, together were a conversation written between the two of us for Bergen Techno Fanzine (Issue 5, 10 November 2018), ↗︎ reprinted by Karmaklubb* and a ↗︎ sequel for Karmaklubb* (2019), and also a public presentation within Karmaklubb*’s ‘↗︎ Talks & screenings (on various forms of queerness) — part 5: Genders (etc.) in flux’ in collaboration with ↗︎ Shine Utopians in 2019 (7–10 November, Dansens Hus, Oslo). In 2020 Tine Semb, founder and organiser of Karmaklubb*, proposed to continue our conversation in podcast format. After meaningful hesitations and reflections on how to continue together, the desire arose to listen to the voices of people with whom we have a personal connection, making the conversation into a collective dance floor.

Immense and ongoing thanks to: Tine Semb for her energy, trust, understanding and patience with our process. Stephen McEvoy for his careful editing and production process of this podcast which also includes a spectral experience of techno music, turning it into a threshold of a club. Every person who joins our spoken dance floor with their bodies, curiosity, listening and time.