The following is an initial meandering musing on dance: casual, staged, amateur, professional, choreographed, spontaneous, celebratory, liberatory.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Six years ago Pet Shop Boys issued their album Electric<\/em> and I bought it for the cut “Love Is a Bourgeois Construct,” a sentiment I’d been voicing for some time. But I was more taken with the promo video for the more nuanced “Vocal.” Directed by photographer and filmmaker Joost Vandebrug, it is compiled<\/a> from amateur video shot at British late-\u201980s raves as well as Manchester’s Ha\u00e7ienda club. Given the visuals, the song suggests a nostalgic number, but the singer is surprised: “Every track has a vocal\/ and that makes a change.” The music\u2014\u201cExpressing passion\/ Expressing pain\u201d\u2014is the glue that binds its listeners as well as the promo’s dancers. It can be seen as a tone-poem-take on the experiences of ecstasy, a drug of choice at the time.<\/p>\n\n\n\n In the milieu of the multitudes, Vandebrug’s choices convey not only that E-intimacy but also a heterogeneity\u2014racial, sensual, presentational, more.<\/p>\n\n\n\n