Why Dance Ersatz?
Because once, in another lifetime, my band Surplus Stock cut a record called The Dance Ersatz.
Post-punk. No-wave. Electronic chaos.
We didn’t want to follow dance music — we wanted to replace it. Now this show carries on, where we left off, many years ago.
Because everything is dance music. If you can feel it, you can move to it.
Dancing is rebellion.
Dancing is survival.
Dancing is freedom.
And dancing is hope.
We sing and dance to throw off the chains, to punch holes in the skyt, to light up our souls.
Dance Ersatz is jazz. It’s folk. It’s punk. It’s glitch and groove, sweat and poetry.
It’s rough and it’s beautiful.
It’s loud and it’s silent.
It’s everywhere, and nowhere you expect.
Come with me.
Across the borders, across the genres, across yourself.
Maybe you’ll dance.
Maybe you’ll just listen and breathe.
But the music will be there.
Waiting.
For when you are ready.
