May 16, 2014 6:30 AM

Gallery: Navigate These Swinging Pendulums by Tapping Your Inner Cat Burglar

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*Nowhere and Everywhere at the Same Time No. 2*, an installation by choreographer and artist William Forsythe, is made up of some 400 swinging pendulums.
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The objective: navigate the field without letting them touch you.

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The pendulums are suspended from an automated rig in an empty old marketplace in Brighton, England.
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The piece is one of Forsythe’s “choreographic objects,” artworks that provoke people to move–and to think about movement–in unusual and unexpected ways.

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The original version, first installed in 2005 in a warehouse near New York City’s High Line, engaged professional dancers to respond spontaneously to the unpredictable environment.
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The work explores “the unconscious choreographic competence induced by choreographic situations,” tapping the innate ability we all have to predict and avoid.

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Everyone's dance, of course, will be different.
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But that's part of the fun.

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