Appealing to the primordial bond between dance and music, four pairs of performers and instrumentalists are brought together in this project to conceive and present a series of ‘planned improvisations’. This is a proposal that places the performer at the centre of the creative process and seeks to capture the moment before the creative material is fixed—a space full of digressions, nuances, and paths to be paved.
'Duplas' is a series of four dialogues between one person who plays and another who dances, giving us a glimpse of different possible relationships between movement and music, calling on a diversity of styles ranging from baroque to experimental music. We can watch these four duets on a late afternoon on May 22, in Jardim da Estrela, as part of the Cumplicidades Festival, one of the EVC's partner festivals for this year's edition of the In Transit Program.