7th
to 8th December 9.30pm
Teatro do Campo Alegre
Companhia Clara Andermatt
(Portugal)
Uma História da Dúvida
(A History of Doubt)
Direction and musical production João Lucas
Dramaturge's assistant João Branco
Set Design MGC Arquitectos Associados
Costumes Ana Direito
Lighting Cristóvão Veríssimo
Film Directed by Ruy Otero
Co-production Festival Mergulho no Futuro - Expo' 98, The Portuguese Ministry of Culture, CCB-Centro Cultural de Belém, Acarte, Calouste Gulbenkian Foundation, Companhia Clara Andermatt (Portugal)
Approximate length 1 hr and 45 mins (no interval)
With Uma História da Dúvida (Prémio Almada '98, a
performing arts' award given in 1998 by the Ministry of Culture) the relationship between
Clara Andermatt and Cape Verde reached a rare moment of aesthetic felicity. It is a tale
of doubts (What is love? What is doubt? What is the future? What is the end of the world?)
that musicians and dancers translate into a flow of movements simultaneously melancholic
and martial. A choreographic moment of poetic muscularity, where the differences that
supposedly separate a gesture of the body from a musical chord are progressively blurred.
A choreographed concert or a musical choreography? Our doubts linger...
"Uma Historia da Dúvida, premiered
in 1998 in the Festival Mergulho no Futuro, is one of Clara Andermatt's and the European
choreographic art's greatest productions."
Maria José Fazenda - Público