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The Ballet Gulbenkian, founded in Lisbon in '65, has been under the artistic direction of Brazilian Iracity Cardoso since '96 and has become one of Europe's foremost contemporary dance companies. The underwater world provides the inspiration for Didy Veldman's See Blue Through, while Mauro Bigonzetti's explosive Cantata is a hymn to the kindred atmospheres of Lisbon and Naples, "to their old quarters, to the spirit, beauty, enthusiasm, energy and character of Portuguese and Neapolitan women," as the choreographer himself puts it. At the Liceu the company will also be giving the first performance of a new work by
Cesc Gelabert, Charmes, based on three of
Frederic Mompou's inter-war works which, in Gelabert's words, "are full of suggestions and sensations which I propose, not to illustrate, but to share".