"Assimilation," choreographed by Adi Boutrous, is a performance that features himself and another male dancer, Jeremy Alberge. The performance starts on the second floor of the Umm el-Fahm Art Gallery and then moves as the dancers skillfully descend the tight steps of the gallery, located in an outdoor space, before re-entering the closed area of the lower level of the gallery. This movement from top to bottom and inside and outside through a tight space, pulls the audience into the dancers' intimate acts. As the dancers navigate complex physical positions, the physical discourse calls into question different dimensions of bodily interactions, the spectrum between intimacy and public performance and strength and vulnerability. The performance is in dialogue with Boutrous’ video installation “Pigments,” part of the exhibition cluster “Always of Dawn.”