Event

Music in the Middle: An Evening of Duets

Music in the Middle is the NW premier of Deborah Hay's duet Found Music, as well as that of two duets created by long time collaborators and Portland favorites Cydney Wilkes (Cul De Sac) and Mike Barber (Bomb), These two duets explore the artists' responses to how two individuals can inhabit the same space. Original music for Bomb and Cul de Sac is composed by Barber's and Wilkes' long time collaborator Heather Perkins. www.waterdogstudio.com. Barber's duet, Bomb was created from the computer visual of Heather Perkins' score, without having heard the music, done in an effort to break patterns and find new ways of initiating material for choreography. Wilkes' Cul de Sac uses concepts of anonymous proximity set in a mildly uncomfortable climate, such as a hot humid day, where interchanges disassociate from motivations. Both works make use of the duo's intelligence, clarity, grace, and powerful shared performance energy.