TrocA O PASSO

Ana Rita Teodoro + João dos Santos Martins

©José Carlos Duarte

23.08.2026 | 17:30

The expression "troca o passo" is used to indicate the second part of a date without a defined year (...one thousand six hundred and troca o passo). The expression can also be used literally and mean to switch feet, to align or misalign one's step with another person.

After Trolaró, Troca o Passo is the second duet that Ana Rita Teodoro and João dos Santos Martins have developed as a pretext for researching and reinventing themselves as artist-dancers, free from the idea of a specific project.

Walking is the present trace of a story that has already begun, the blossoming 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 suck us into archaeological records. We advance and retreat, we adjust our pace and are late, we run and are ahead, we stop but continue to go. A walking duet with butoh.

FREE ENTRY | 55 MINUTES | +6

Capacity: 50 seated + 50 standing

Credits

Choreography and performance
Ana Rita Teodoro and João dos Santos Martins

Light, space and floral arrangements
Filipe Pereira

Costumes
Outfit made with clothes worn on a Friday morning.

Songs inspired by
Knee (1986), by Meredith Monk; 5pm ringtone (goji no chaimu) from the village of Saruhashi

Executive production and management
Lysandra Domingues, Andrei Bessa and Maria Monteiro, Catalina Lescano and Helena Baronet | Associação Parasita, Association Mimaï

Residences
Dance House, Parasite Space, Dance Forum (Portugal); Hijikata-Nakanishi Memorial Saruhashi Soko (Japan)

Support
NPO Dance Archive Network; DGArtes Internationalization Support Program; Camões – Portuguese Cultural Center in Tokyo

Production
Associação Parasita

Acknowledgments
Toshio Mizohata, Connor Scott, Yumi Tateishi, Morishita Takashi, Takao Kawaguchi, Yui Baba, Casa da Dança, Dimitri Rey

Parasita is a structure funded by
República Portuguesa – Ministério da Cultura/Direcção-Geral das Artes