Justice minus the DANCEing (belated post)

I intended to post something to this tune a long time ago, but I was pretty busy lawyering the shit out of some people. I, along with several of you, saw Justice perform several weeks ago at Terminal 5 in New York. I love Justice. The album, the DANCE video, the French-house-techno thing. Love it. I think that the venue is solid too. Huge open space, three floors with bars. It has a good club feel with the vaulted loftiness of a proper auditorium. The show, however, while fun, was highly imperfect, and I think that for the forthcoming reasons, this was the necessary outcome.

In Terminal 5 that night, there were thousands of people packed in, all facing the direction of the stage. While the lights were well done (see photo for the general layout of the stage), there was no room to dance, and it was very clear that the "band" was simply playing the majority of their album by pushing button, perhaps with minimal beat matching and certainly with the occasional roof-raising gesture to the crowd. I enjoyed the songs, but by the halfway point I was pretty bored and antsy. The crowd called for an encore (by singing "We Are Your Friends" chorus en masse, which was awesome), but the guys just appeared on the second story balcony and waved. I am sure that they didn't do an encore because they didn't pre-program an encore into their button pushing. My point here is that the two members of Justice, as electronic music producers, have no business giving a concert in the same manner as a live group that does anything live on-stage. This music would be best enjoyed in a proper club-type atmosphere, with the focus on dancing and community, rather than pretending that anything is actually being re-created on stage that the crowd must intently watch. So, I guess I am asking, is the problem here isolated to this concert? Isn't this a problem that the industry, while marketing electronic music side-by-side with "live" music (rightfully), cannot allow for any variety in the method or mode of concert presentation? Is this a stupid question?