The expression “troca o passo” (literally “change the step/pace”) is used to refer to the second part of a date without a specific year (…the 1600s and “change the step”). The expression can also be used literally to mean changing foot, in order to align or misalign your step with someone else’s.

After Trolaró, Troca o Passo is the second duet that Ana Rita Teodoro and João dos Santos Martins develop as a pretext to research and reinvent themselves as artist-dancers detached from the idea of a specific project.

Walking is the present trace of a story that has already begun, the unfolding and fading of a form in progress. Is it possible to move forward while maintaining a relationship with the black holes of history? The elliptical curves of the world pull us into archaeological records. We advance and retreat, we align our steps and fall behind, we run and we are ahead, we stop but we continue moving.