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Bartabas takes us on Victor Segalen's tracks. Between landscapes and calligraphy, suggested China shows itself then the frame of a very intimate journey. For the first time, Bartabas gives a show onto a theater stage: between tulles and kakemonos, shadows and lights, the scenic space metamorphoses. The reality is not comprehensible any more but entr' perceived.

Recording of the show Opéra Equestre in July 1991 in Avignon. In this show in the form of a ritual challenge, two tribes of horsemen and singers, one of Berber influence, the other of Caucasian influence, meet, compete, play on their differences and their similarities.

Not less than seventy horses and twenty five riders evoke through this magic fresco the dream of the East and the taste of distant fashionable in the XVIIIth century, in the sound of musics consisted at that time in India, in America or in Europe. With the Academy and the equestrian theater Zingaro within the framework of the Night parties of the Palace of Versailles Total duration: 1:55

Just the once will not hurt, Bartabas explores the notion of freedom and has fun with all the dangers. For this creation been born in 2006, the founder of the equestrian theater Zingaro was inspired by the universe of the Gypsies of Central Europe. The artist and the director gathered his best riders and 45 horses. The set is supported by two groups of Rumanian musicians: a brass band of brass instruments native of Moldavia and a set with ropes of Transylvania.