Gillian Wearing takeover: How would you dance in public?

As her Whitechapel Gallery retrospective opens, we look back at the artist's 1994 shopping centre dance-athon to a soundtrack ranging from Nirvana to the Bee Gees. Where would you throw some shapes in public today – and to what tunes?In Gillian Wearing's 1994 artwork Dancing in Peckham, she took to a south London shopping centre and danced as if no one was watching, exploring her longstanding interest in confessional video works. Previously that year, Wearing had posted an advertisement in Tim...

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