As they moved closer towards each other, so did the music, eventually forming a duet.
With cathartic waves of drumming, Kid Millions of Oneida formed a duet with the tenor saxophonist Jim Sauter of Borbetomagus.
A couple of years later, Wright and Jack Anglin formed a duet act, Johnnie & Jack, and she toured with them in the then conventional role of the "girl singer".
After his wife's death, in 1974, Mr. Schnabel formed a duet with the Canadian pianist Jean Rowland, with whom he made several recordings.
Throughout "Dance Machine" an oppressive, contrived eroticism persists, yet relationships keep forming: a duet for Megumi Eda and Cristian Laverde König shows an aloof, fragile partnership, while Masayo Yamaguchi and Jeffrey C. Sousa perform with robust playfulness.
Ochs and Glover formed a duet called "The Singing Socialists", later renamed "The Sundowners", but the duo broke up before their first professional performance and Glover went to New York City to become a folksinger.
Each takes the form of a duet backed by a 16-strong, black-clad ensemble.
During the opening section, set to Stravinsky's Dumbarton Oaks, 13 dancers fizz across the stage in speedy, zig-zagging starbursts of movement, the choreography only slowing down when two of them collide to form a rapt duet.
The song of the indri can last 45 seconds to more than 3 minutes and tends to coordinate to form a stable duet comparable to that of gibbons.
Several days before, Ms. Bird saw a performance of Vivaldi's Gloria danced by the company and, because of the choreography, discovered that the soprano and bass lines form an interlocking duet: something she had never fully appreciated, even when she had performed the work.
