But as with Ms. Zuerner's footwork passage, there is a standout moment in "We Do Our Best" when Ms. Santoro and Ms. Koppe perform a talking duet — they're clueless women talking about other clueless women — while taking small, clipped steps.
Click to view City of Christmas Ghosts was written as a duet between friends talking about life and lost love, but it sounds to me like one of our long phone calls (perhaps with Poly's long chatterbox lines of conversation edited down!) It was great for us to get a chance to hear her sing in that amazing and iconic voice for one last time and it seemed so effortless for her.
However, it wasn't just the duet that got people talking - Tinie high-fived Prince William, who was in the front row of the audience.
Core is also talking with Sony Records about a duets album (as has been done with artists like Frank Sinatra in the past) pairing Elvis with contemporary artists.
But at a duet recital on Thursday evening at Carnegie Hall, the image that came to mind was of a couple out to dinner, each partner talking intently on his cellphone.
Seriously: it's a duet between a terrifying (even moreso now) Ronald McDonald and his talking car, with a special guest appearance from the none other than the cops.
Rufus Wainwright and Emmylou Harris collaborate on the tragic I Eat Dinner, Norah Jones and Martha Wainwright duet on the rousing (Talk To Me of) Mendocino, and there's a historic reunion between Richard and Linda Thompson on the pained Go Leave.
And I don't mean talk more about whether or not Robin Thicke's new single is misogynist because it's literally just the sound of someone throwing some jelly at some tits, or whether or not you can be a feminist and still duet with R. Kelly, but talk more about the kind of sex you want to have, with the people you are having it with.
Cyrus became the talking point of the 2013 ceremony following her raunchy "Blurred Lines" duet with Robin Thicke, but it was Minaj's 'enthusiastic' dance moves that stole this year's show.
Their movement phrases are similarly stop and start, so that the duet at times seems like two separate conversations and at others like two people talking over each other, with only occasional moments of real communion.
