Dueto (2019)

We exist with each other, in a conflict that brings love and death closer together. There is a
struggle that involves the relationship with the other, and only then can we live a truth in
intimacy. The possibility of experiencing this truth on our horizon can never be done
without the willingness to go through the crudeness of mutation that disfigures the very
notion of the utopian body. This metamorphosis only happens together and against the
body of the other, and in it lies the hidden violence of a subversion of roles.
Here, the body exposes itself in the crudeness of arising from nothing, and thus becoming
everything. It is lost in the transparent incomprehension of its fragility and subverts this
meaning in the perverted provocation of difference. A dance that emerges from the

intimate deformation of the state of the observed body. We will never be more than what
we are naked.
Duet is a dance piece by Diana Niepce, which premiered in December 2020 at CCB,
Lisbon.

Artistic direction and choreography: Diana Niepce
Performers: Diana Niepce, Hugo Cabral Mendes
Light Design: Carlos Ramos
Music: Jonny Kadaver
Costumes: Silvana Ivaldi
Production Manager: Joana Costa Santos
Production: As Niepce’s
Distribution: Something Great
Coproduction Residency: O Espaço do Tempo
Coproduction: Produções Independentes/Self-Mistake (2020), Centro Cultural de Belém
Support: Biblioteca de Marvila – CML