Alignigung II (2020)

In a video installation distilled from a live performance that Forsythe choreographed and directed in 2016 dancers Rauf Rubberlegz Yasit and Riley Watts clasp and unclasp each other in complex configurations that make it difficult for the viewer to determine where one body ends and the other begins This slowmotion physical and optical puzzle which Forsythe calls an entanglement is a choreographic event from which the common elements typically associated with choreographythe structural development of time and space and the visual isolation of partshave been subtracted The complex threading of the dancers bodies into their own negative spaces creates visual conundrums that defy the apparent logic of the situation The title is a play on words that like the human situation it describes threads two languages together the English word align which sounds like the German word allein alone is fused with the German word Einigung agreement