Marta Chaves and Rosiris Garrido met at the National Circus School (Rio de Janeiro) in 1992 and in 1995, when they were part of the troupe named Atrupelados (a company which used to melt the circus, the theatre and the music), they created an aerial duo hoop act. Some time later, when the canadien choreographer Allain Veuilleux has been in Brazil, this performance was reworked with him.

In 1997, this duo performance was selected for the Festival International du Cirque de Demain, in Paris. By this time, the choreographer Dani Lima remade the direction of the performance and, some time later, Marta and Rosiris decided to call it OURO, giving it a brazilian name.

The Festival in Paris represented an open door to an international career. OURO has already been performed in Germany, Canada, Belgium, Sweden, France, Switzerland, Holland. And, for tree years, Marta and Rosiris did a tour with the Cirque du Soleil, in the show Pomp Duck and Circumstance.

OURO uses poetry, sensuality, dance, energy. The two brazilian artists use aesthetics and images which are often unfamiliar to, with their own movements, transmit sensations, emotions... It`s a work of art, either sweet or aggressive, sometimes spontaneous and delicate, sometimes tense and hard.