{"id":5631,"date":"2020-08-08T05:19:23","date_gmt":"2020-08-08T11:19:23","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/qualityofmercy.com\/blog\/?p=5631"},"modified":"2025-08-03T16:42:14","modified_gmt":"2025-08-03T22:42:14","slug":"everybody-dance-now-5-the-peoples-panopticon","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/qualityofmercy.com\/blog\/2020\/08\/08\/everybody-dance-now-5-the-peoples-panopticon\/","title":{"rendered":"Everybody Dance Now 5: The People&#8217;s Panopticon"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>Yesterday my brother Richard remarked in our weekly transpacific Skype chat, that the cell phone camera has changed everything, from unmasked undistanced kids walking down a hallway in Georgia (I hadn\u2019t yet seen it; he\u2019s on Bangkok time) to gals getting their nails done getting zip-tied on the blacktop near my neighborhood.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<!--more-->\n\n\n\n<p>It\u2019s the People&#8217;s Panopticon. (And no, I haven\u2019t checked to see if I\u2019m coining an old phrase.)<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Some said everything changed on 9\/11, but it didn\u2019t.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Melbourne-based choreographer Bonnie Su did this video two years ago, and like so much relatively recent work it&#8217;s wrapped in another dimension two years later.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Has everything changed? See what you think.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-embed is-type-video is-provider-youtube wp-block-embed-youtube wp-embed-aspect-16-9 wp-has-aspect-ratio\"><div class=\"wp-block-embed__wrapper\">\n<iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"Youth - Daughter || Bonnie Su Dance Choreography\" width=\"525\" height=\"295\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/09yJUYDrBzg?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe>\n<\/div><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>   <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-text-align-right\">See also <a href=\"https:\/\/qualityofmercy.com\/blog\/2019\/01\/28\/everybody-dance-now\/\">Part 1<\/a> \u2022\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/qualityofmercy.com\/blog\/2019\/04\/01\/everybody-dance-now-2-adansual\/\">Part 2<\/a>\u00a0\u2022 <a href=\"https:\/\/qualityofmercy.com\/blog\/2020\/04\/27\/everybody-dance-now-3\/\">Part 3<\/a> \u2022 <a href=\"https:\/\/qualityofmercy.com\/blog\/2020\/07\/11\/everybody-dance-now-4-time-travel\/\" data-type=\"post\" data-id=\"4940\">Part 4<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Yesterday my brother Richard remarked in our weekly transpacific Skype chat, that the cell phone camera has changed everything, from unmasked undistanced kids walking down a hallway in Georgia (I hadn\u2019t yet seen it; he\u2019s on Bangkok time) to gals getting their nails done getting zip-tied on the blacktop near my neighborhood.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":7871,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[214,33,36],"tags":[936,937,938],"class_list":["post-5631","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-dance","category-music","category-video","tag-bonnie-su","tag-cell-phone","tag-panopticon"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/qualityofmercy.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/01\/flip_fone_ani2.gif?fit=1200%2C600&ssl=1","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/paF2cn-1sP","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/qualityofmercy.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5631","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/qualityofmercy.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/qualityofmercy.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/qualityofmercy.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/qualityofmercy.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=5631"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/qualityofmercy.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5631\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":10216,"href":"https:\/\/qualityofmercy.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5631\/revisions\/10216"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/qualityofmercy.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/7871"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/qualityofmercy.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5631"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/qualityofmercy.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5631"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/qualityofmercy.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5631"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}