Choice Time: Why Being Able To Choose Stops Action in its Tracks

From a corporeal perspective, this type of alienation returns as an excess of gesticulation, of disordered patterns seeking amelioration through organized communal release. The indecisive nature of modern society is best resolved through the ordered patterning of group choreography, as delineated in the above video. However, from a pure choreography perspective, we can then understand the decline of modern dance (which rewards singular works that are not easily performed by just anyone) and the rise of the dance flash mob (which by its very nature obviates choice and requires literal lockstep adherence in order for the performance to be a success) as yet another symptom of the Ideology of Choice embedded in Capitalism. Moreover, this "decision" to participate in a flash mob, already requiring that one does not fully think for ones self and absolves one's responsibility through the rubric of "play," feels like "true" action, and thus terminates while mimicking real social action. Perhaps we can think about the incredible array of dance competition TV shows as an attempt to harness the result of the angst of choice while generating even more, and therefore more ways to capitalize on this emotion/sensation of lack of actual social action.