Reviewed by Eric Saeger
From the title you might deduce either a) weirdo indie techno or b) epic hipness fail by old dudes. Actually it’s neither, this large-scale prog-jazz project. It could be more rightly assumed that the word ‘dance’ really means ‘play’ in this context, as the scope of these ten mini-concertos allows for some cutting loose by this jazz orchestra, a project backed by France’s Ministry of Culture – do we even have something like that in the US? Noises are allowed, so there are circuit-bendings and organic glitches, such as a ping pong ball dropped into piano wires. Overall the feel is proggy, à la John McLaughlin, Weather Report, etc., although percussion plays a major role (’Racing Heart, Heart Racing’ is a bizarre sort of careering zydeco) and the curve balls tend to get a lot of English on them (the coda of ‘Flying Dream’ finds the full-blown horn section cooking up something out of a 60s action TV drama).
Grade: A
