The clearest representation of the patients' sense of space and time came when Ms. Uchizono moved out of sync with her image, her physical hand trailing and catching up to the projected hand, or vice versa.
Director Stephen Williams described filming at the sea as challenging, since the waves caused cameras, lighting and the scenery where the actors were standing to be "moving out of sync with one another".
His out-of-sync moves went viral, prompting a few entrepreneurial types to attempt to cash in.
Together, these two talented artists tell a sorry little story of a love begun in hope and promise, battered by competing agendas and out-of-sync career moves, and finally buried amid the confusion and pain that breaking up brings.
Yet the out-of-sync feel remains.
It's a bit like when audio and video comes out of sync, where the lips move but the speech comes through the speakers a fraction too late.
Mr. Reich's "Piano Phase" — Russell Greenberg and Mike McCurdy gave a focused, energetic reading on marimbas — is one of several works in which Mr. Reich has two players beginning in sync, gradually moving out of phase and then coming back together in the final bars.
Researchers recruited 264 students from local schools on Marajó island in Brazil to learn four dance moves, then perform them either together or out of sync to a catchy, 130-beat-per-minute electronic dance beat.
