You most certainly know Bartabas, founder of the Zingaro equestrian theater and the Versailles equestrian academy. Today, we honor a book that traces its universe and its sources of inspiration: Bartabas, Zingaro, a theater for horses.
Since his meeting with the artist in 1978, Fabienne Pascaud has followed all her evolution and today gives us an intimate essay, a dive into the heart of the history of Bartabas and the Zingaro equestrian theater, who celebrated his forty years. “” He has become a theater hero in a certain way, a fictitious and true being at the same time “, She said. A character and a company with multiple facets, and an endless imagination. With Bartabas, it is the horse the artist above all. This book also involves different close to Bartabas, like Jean-Louis Gouraud, André Velter, Laure Guillaume, Jérôme Garcin. The artist also speaks and gives us his thinking about reading, writing, cinema, racing fields.
Bartabas, Zingaro, a theater for horsesby Fabienne Pascaud, Actes Sud, 192 p., 23 €.
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