There's a striking evocation of a sudden squall in which all hands become entangled in a giant cat's cradle of straining hemp.
"She was wearing a long, dangly necklace and when the pianist came down to this end, and she stood up ready to turn the page, his left hand got entangled in her necklace.
It is a gesture repeated in "Talking," where the hand, now disembodied, becomes entangled with a beaded rope and a trail of cigarette smoke to make a kind of sign, recalling the calligraphy of the early abstractions.
It landed in not one, but two girls' hands, who proceeded to get entangled in an intense tug-of-war.
If they became entangled in a prolonged, hand-to-hand grapple, where their light shields and thrusting spears were confronted with Roman swords and armour, they had little hope of success.
And though no one ever spotted us hand in hand, to all eyes we were connected, entangled.
Mr. Chen See, Ms. Egtvedt and Ms. Mazzini cross their hands and are the first to get entangled.
The system has stymied aid organizations for years, and Katz said that for years aid organizations have "thrown up their collective hands and said 'we don't really want to deal with this.'" The Red Cross entangled itself in a web of other organizations, often paying them to do relief work, themselves struggling in Haiti.
"They want to keep a free hand in how to rule Iraq, not to be entangled with any local force, not only the Shiites," said Ghassan Atiyyah, editor of the Iraqi File, an opposition newsletter published in London.
As the dancers get entangled in heaps, huddles and coils, they keep their hands joined.
