“Meanwhile” begins with Knight and Harris pressed together, one standing in front of the other. Their arms are carved into rigid angular positions that sharply change like flashing photographs or the ticking of a clock. Knight’s hands grow through the space between Harris’ arms and her waist, like a vine through a chain link fence. Harris’ arms react with new openings, which Knight fills again and again. As they switch places then converge once more, their fragmented images start to blend and flow. 

Skeels is an international choreographer acclaimed particularly for his large-scale works, including various productions for Cirque du Soleil as well as commissions by major companies such as Les Grands Ballets Canadiens de Montréal and Nederlands Dans Theater. As Rossi does with “Desire Path,” Skeels’ intimate “Meanwhile” finds movement by engaging with his dancers’ negative space, the natural openings created by each body's shapes. 

After Knight and Harris’ first duet, they separate into virtuosic, winding solos. Harris performs a series of attitude turns and abrupt flips of direction, then slides across the grey floor on her knees. Knight similarly glides, sucked backwards on his belly after quick, frantic hand and head gestures. In burgundy and orange unitards, they look like flowers that are plucked by the wind: Swept up in a large gust, they tumble, then plummet into the water, and sail off downstream.