{"id":2566,"date":"2026-03-23T01:44:30","date_gmt":"2026-03-22T21:44:30","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.actutech.app\/topical-dancer-is-propulsive-playful-and-political\/"},"modified":"2026-03-23T01:44:30","modified_gmt":"2026-03-22T21:44:30","slug":"topical-dancer-is-propulsive-playful-and-political","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.actutech.app\/en\/topical-dancer-is-propulsive-playful-and-political\/","title":{"rendered":"Topical Dancer is propulsive, playful, and political"},"content":{"rendered":"<figure>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"Album cover of Charlotte Adigery and Bolis Pupul\u2019s Topical Dancer, featuring a black and white photo of them dancing while connected at the hands via long shared sleeves.\" data-caption=\"Siri, can you tell me where I belong? | Image: DEEWEE\" data-portal-copyright=\"Image: DEEWEE\" data-has-syndication-rights=\"1\" src=\"https:\/\/platform.theverge.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2026\/03\/topical-dancer.jpg?quality=90&amp;strip=all&amp;crop=0,0,100,100\" \/><figcaption>\n\tSiri, can you tell me where I belong? | Image: DEEWEE\t<\/figcaption><\/p><\/figure>\n<p class=\"has-text-align-none\">Last week&rsquo;s <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theverge.com\/entertainment\/891057\/what-were-listening-to-watching-and-reading\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">recommendation<\/a>, Sotomayor&rsquo;s <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theverge.com\/entertainment\/895065\/sotomayor-wabi-sabi-review\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><em>Wabi Sabi<\/em><\/a>, has a very particular vibe that you don&rsquo;t find in a lot of records. One of the few things it called to mind was 2022&rsquo;s <a href=\"https:\/\/charlotteandbolis.bandcamp.com\/album\/topical-dancer\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><em>Topical Dancer<\/em><\/a> from Charlotte Adigery and Bolis Pupul, which I ended up revisiting this week a lot.<\/p>\n<p class=\"has-text-align-none\">The two records don&rsquo;t seem particularly alike on the surface. But they&rsquo;re both rough around the edges smash-ups of electronic and organic elements packaged for dancefloor abandon. The way the sounds and rhythms click together feels very much of the same ilk.<\/p>\n<p class=\"has-text-align-none\">There are, of course, differences. Significant ones. Adigery and Pupul draw more heavily from rock and early electroni \u2026<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.theverge.com\/entertainment\/898796\/charlotte-adigery-bolis-pupul-topical-dancer-review\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Read the full story at The Verge.<\/a><\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Siri, can you tell me where I belong? | Image: DEEWEE Last week&rsquo;s recommendation, Sotomayor&rsquo;s Wabi Sabi, has a very [&hellip;]<\/p>","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"site-sidebar-layout":"default","site-content-layout":"","ast-site-content-layout":"","site-content-style":"default","site-sidebar-style":"default","ast-global-header-display":"","ast-banner-title-visibility":"","ast-main-header-display":"","ast-hfb-above-header-display":"","ast-hfb-below-header-display":"","ast-hfb-mobile-header-display":"","site-post-title":"","ast-breadcrumbs-content":"","ast-featured-img":"","footer-sml-layout":"","theme-transparent-header-meta":"","adv-header-id-meta":"","stick-header-meta":"","header-above-stick-meta":"","header-main-stick-meta":"","header-below-stick-meta":"","astra-migrate-meta-layouts":"default","ast-page-background-enabled":"default","ast-page-background-meta":{"desktop":{"background-color":"var(--ast-global-color-5)","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""},"tablet":{"background-color":"","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""},"mobile":{"background-color":"","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""}},"ast-content-background-meta":{"desktop":{"background-color":"var(--ast-global-color-4)","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""},"tablet":{"background-color":"var(--ast-global-color-4)","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""},"mobile":{"background-color":"var(--ast-global-color-4)","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""}},"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2566","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-non-classe"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.actutech.app\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2566","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.actutech.app\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.actutech.app\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.actutech.app\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.actutech.app\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2566"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.actutech.app\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2566\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.actutech.app\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2566"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.actutech.app\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2566"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.actutech.app\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2566"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}