No room for panic
April 23, 2020

Feeling completely free - dancing alone in hotel room in mandatory quarantine

Australian music writer Ben Freeman went into mandatory 14 days of quarantine after returning to Sydney from Berlin, and found his hotel room to be a - nightclub just for himself. He described it to Guardian: "On my first day, after doing a lousy excuse for a hotel workout, I began to just naturally have a boogie to whatever house mix I was listening to. All of a sudden, the anxiety about returning home and feeling confined subsided; I closed my eyes and was back on the dancefloor. What began as just a random shake of my ass quickly turned into a daily ritual. I was content with the fact I was dancing alone in my quarantine hotel room, lapping up the ridiculousness of it all. Funnily, both feelings weren’t dissimilar, I felt as alone in the world when I envisioned myself in a club and when I looked out the hotel window at Sydney Harbour. Finding comfort in solitude was calming and cathartic when the world felt so distant".