“Thirty years of work would require me to look into their chronology. I would like to. But, although I do have many memories of my shows, I remember them in the wrong order. I remember them as the result of an encounter, a feeling, a smell, a music, a country, an audience, but never because of a date, an anniversary, never in the order I have lived them. Of passing time, I know neither the standard nor the measure.”
Bartabas, in L’Almanach Zingaro , Editions Actes Sud, 2014
For this third part of the “Cabaret de l’exil”, Bartabas pays tribute to Persian women.
Whether they’re Afghan or Iranian, they’re all artists in exile too. Resistant and outraged, they claim their identity and summon their antic memory ; the one from the antic Scythian civilisation founded on matriarchy.
To this nomadic people, the horse was at the origin of the remarkable gender equality : riding long distances and encourage its mount to combat was the prerogative of women as much as men, and it was the same for the practice of the art.
Bartabas invites Iranian artists – musicians, singers and dancers – to join his half-women half-horses tribe and, through the voices of famous and anonymous poetesses, to give voice to the song of a Persian woman freed from her mystical attributes and claiming her right to passionate love.
HOW TO GET THERE?
The Zingaro Equestrian Theatre is located at 176 avenue Jean Jaurès 93300 AUBERVILLIERS.
By métro: Line n°7 to the station “Fort d’Aubervilliers”. The closest exit to the theatre is the exit n°1 “Avenue Jean Jaurès”; the entrance to the theatre is about 100 meters away from the metro.
By bike: The closest Vélib’ station is station n°33016 “Fort d’Aubervilliers” (less than 5 minutes’ walk). You can also park your personal bike at the bike parking hoops in front of the theater, which will be guarded.
By car (if you really cannot do without it!): you will access the Theatre through the Porte de La Villette, following the direction “Le Bourget”.
Due to work on the future aquatic center, the car park has been removed. Take your precautions.
If you wish to come by car, we recommend that you park in the La Villette car park, then take metro line 7 (Porte de la Villette -> Fort d’Aubervilliers: 2 metro stops)
RATES
21€ to 59€
From September 4th, we will offer a discount to jobseekers, residents of Aubervilliers and students, booking by phone only: +33 (0)1 48 39 54 17. Please prepare your supporting document in order to get this discount!
We thank people with reduced mobility for booking their places with btoblive@fnac.com, so that we can ensure the best possible welcome !
Online ticket office : https://fb-events.tickandlive.com/
By-phone ticket office : opens on September 4th.
TRAVELLING MAN / Vagabond sans frontière
Ton Piebold a le cœur franc et les fanons légers
De Galway à Wicklow, de Cork à Donegal,
Le son des routes est rempli de ta voix
Des fourrés d’ajonc s’envole la bécasse
De ta mère, tu te souviens
De la chaleur de ses seins
Et des vers qu’elle t’a appris
Parce qu’ils te faisaient pleurer
Tu n’as jamais voulu les écrire
Aucun livre ne voudrait de ces larmes
Tu lances ton visage à la pluie
Et chantes pour apprivoiser les gouttes
Là-bas sur la lande de bruyère pourpre
L’arc-en-ciel se prosterne devant toi
Traveller, tes livres n’ont pas de pages
De Galway à Wicklow, de Cork à Donegal,
Le son des routes est rempli de ta voix.
BARTABAS
37 years after the creation of his first “Equestrian Cabaret”, Bartabas returns to this convivial way of sharing music and songs that recall a country left but never forgotten and renew the secret link to ancestral roots. This first Cabaret of Exile will celebrate the Yiddish culture and Klezmer music of the Eastern European Jewish communities. Bartabas invites the musicians of Le Petit Mish-Mash and actor Rafaël Goldwaser to join his half-human, half-horse tribe, for a joyful and nostalgic cabaret in the colors of Chagall. An invitation to travel that is meant to be discovered fraternally, over a glass of mulled wine at the Fort d’Aubervilliers in the Zingaro Equestrian Theatre, which is always reinvented.
PRACTICAL INFORMATION
From October 19 to December 31, 2021
Tuesday, Wednesday, Friday, Saturday at 8:30 p.m.
Sunday at 5:30 p.m.
Break Monday, Thursday and Saturday December 25
From January 14 to February 27, 2022
Tuesday, Wednesday, Friday, Saturday at 8:30 p.m.
Sunday at 5:30 p.m.
Break Monday, Thursday
From 04 to 27 March 2022
Friday, Saturday at 8:30 p.m.
Sunday at 5:30 p.m.
Break from Monday to Thursday
Suitable for all (please note that the “Carré Or” seats (first three rows) are forbidden to children under 7 years old)
Duration: about 1h45
To book your seats, click here
The ticket office is open from 10 a.m. to 5.30 p.m.
At the Zingaro Theatre, the experience begins before the show!
We welcome you with a convivial and musical atmosphere, from 7pm on Tuesdays, Wednesdays, Fridays, and Saturdays and from 4pm on Sundays.
If you wish to, you can eat at the theatre bar before and after the performance.
We kindly remind you that the doors of the theatre will be closed as soon as the performance begins.
The reception at the theatre is an integral part of the “Zingaro experience”, so we strongly recommend you arrive at least 30 minutes before the performance!
HOW TO GET THERE?
The Zingaro Equestrian Theatre is located at 176 avenue Jean Jaurès 93300 AUBERVILLIERS.
By métro: Line n°7 to the station “Fort d’Aubervilliers”. The closest exit to the theatre is the exit n°1 “Avenue Jean Jaurès”; the entrance to the theatre is about 100 meters away from the metro.
By bike: The closest Vélib’ station is station n°33016 “Fort d’Aubervilliers” (less than 5 minutes’ walk). You can also park your personal bike at the bike parking hoops in front of the theater, which will be guarded.
By car (if you really cannot do without it!): you will access the Theatre through the Porte de La Villette, following the direction “Le Bourget”.
Due to work on the future aquatic center, the car park has been removed. Take your precautions.
If you wish to come by car, we recommend that you park in the La Villette car park, then take metro line 7 (Porte de la Villette -> Fort d’Aubervilliers: 2 metro stops)
RATES
21€ to 57€
From September 1st, we will offer a discount to jobseekers, residents of Aubervilliers and students, booking by phone only: +33 (0)1 48 39 54 17. Please prepare your supporting document in order to get this discount!
We thank people with reduced mobility for booking their places with btoblive@fnac.com, so that we can ensure the best possible welcome!
“Nowadays, I take more and more pleasure in being alone with my horses, very early in the morning, before the life of men starts. At sunrise, in silence and concentration, is when the body and mind are most available for deep listening. As a performer, I am searching for these moments, which are impossible to recreate.
With Entretiens Silencieux, I want to show how, simply, one’s devotion to their work, art, and listening to the horse can release a universal emotion. It is an adventure which puts the viewer in a position of proximity, intimacy, almost indecency… So that they may surprise what is usually kept from sight.”
Bartabas
With the support of the IRCAM, Manuel Poletti will create the sound rendering, generated and edited in real time, in order to put the intimacy of the man and the horse, evolving as one, in music.
This show is a part of the Festival Paris l’été.
* Online booking *
In the Manège of the Palace of Versailles’ Great Stables
From Wednesday, July 14th to Wednesday, July 28th, 2021
At 11 AM
Rest days: Mondays & Fridays
Info & booking : www.parislete.fr/en / +33 1 44 94 98 00
Estimated duration: 1h10
Suitable for ages 12 and up
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This show was created in Théâtre équestre Zingaro
as a part of Festival d’Automne à Paris
From Wednesday, December 16th, 2020 to Sunday, January 3rd, 2021:
shows were canceled due to the sanitary situation.
“Like a breath of the soul,
“a horse neighs somewhere,
until the end of time.*”
“For almost thirty years, horses have been the centre of the Zingaro adventure, living and working by our side. They are the inspiration of our creations, our source of desire.
In contact with them, we have learned to go wild, to receive the lessons they have been willing to teach us, to understand that they are a “memorial part of ourselves**”.
For this ultimate creation, I wanted to celebrate them as the true actors of this original “Equestrian Theatre”… To show a ritual without memory, a ceremony where the viewer will see the animal as the mirror of humanity.
In order to do so, we must learn to strip ourselves of our ego, to trade our individual body for a shared, anonymous body… To be a mere presence in the background; to become “horse puppeteers” and with them, to discover new lands…” – Bartabas
* Joseph Delteil ** Michel Onfray
Ex Anima is available on DVD here.
A creation by: Théâtre équestre Zingaro
Conception, stage direction, scenography: Bartabas
Original music:
François Marillier, Véronique Piron, Jean-Luc Thomas, Wang Li
Compositions based on the breath:
Instruments: Hulusi (Chinese flute) ; Tin-Whistles (Irish flutes) ; Bansurî (flute from north India) ; Shakuhachi, Ryuteki, Nôkan (Japanese flutes)
Produced by:
Théâtre Équestre Zingaro
Coproduced by:
Bonlieu Scène nationale Annecy,
Espace Malraux Scène nationale de Chambéry et de la Savoie,
Live Music Production, Théâtre de Caen, Le Quartz – Scène Nationale de Brest
Press Office: Rémi Fort – MYRA
+33 (0)1 40 33 79 13 – remi@myra.fr
Copyrights:
Photography © Marion Tubiana
Graphic Design: Vincent Kervel based based on an engraving of Hans Baldung Grien
Title design © Ernest Pignon-Ernest
With, in their own role:
Cintrón, Dominguín, Manzanares, Nimeño, Arruza, El Gallo, Belmonte, Bombita, Chicuelo, El Cordobés, Paquirri, El Soro, Manolete, El Viti, Guerre, Famine, Conquête, Misère, Lug, Dagda, Ogme, Nuada, Credne, Mac Oc, le Grincheux en alternance avec le Curieux, Angelo, Tsigane, Van Gogh, Calacas, Lucifer en alternance avec Bamako, Majestic, Noureev, la mule, l’âne, Le Caravage, Le Tintoret, Zurbarán, Posada, Soutine
with the cooperation of:
Bartabas, Marc Batailley, Yannick Boutet, Cécile Borry, Thierry Brillaud, Christophe Brisset, Henri Carballido, Marjolaine Carme, Lucie Delorme, Manon Demarcq, Mathieu Deveyer, Pierre-Léonard Guétal, Jeanne Guépratte, Philippe Imbréa, Thierry Imbréa, Julien Koch, Ouali Lahlouh, Yannick Laisné, Romane Lejaille, Edouard Lejeune, Julie-Sarah Ligonnière, Mathias Lyon, Coralie Martinot, François Marillier, Christelle Naddéo, Anne Perron, Véronique Piron, Sophie Prietz, Etienne Regnier, Emmanuelle Santini, Alice Seghier, Olivier Serpette, Jean-Luc Thomas, Camille Tartakowsky, Hervé Vincent, Léa Vuillemin, Justine Walter, Wang Li, David Weiser, Messaoud Zeggane.
Ex Anima was created in Aubervilliers on October 17th, 2017.
Théâtre Zingaro – Aubervilliers, from October 17th, 2017 to March 11th, 2018
2018
Bonlieu Scène nationale d’Annecy and Espace Malraux Scène nationale de Chambéry et de la Savoie, April 19 – May 13
Live Music Production, Avenches (Suisse) June 8 – July 1st
Théâtre de Caen, September 29 – October 25
Théâtre Zingaro – Aubervilliers: November 9th, 2018 – March 3rd, 2019
2019
Hérault Culture, Béziers, April 23 – May 19
Les Nuits de Fourvière, Parc de Parilly, June 14 – July 24
Côte Ouest, Place des Quinconces, August 17 – September 14
Le Quartz, Scène Nationale de Brest, Fort de Penfeld, October 4 – 27
Scène Nationale Châteauvallon – Liberté, Anse Eric Tabarly à Toulon, November 19 – December 15
“They shoot angels, don’t they?” (Elegies)
In a unique space – is it the bottom of a volcano? – Bartabas returns on stage and delivers us a fascinating equestrian and poetic musing. For this new creation, he comes down again in the arena like an archangel fallen from his purgatory.
Because here the sky of the angels announces of dry land and the surges aim to be cavalier.
Even the paradise of horses is not an easy one anymore.
To which messenger should one dedicate themself, when the circle of hell keeps being reversed and the seraphs with bashed up wings keep reconquering their kingdom?
In which star to trust as we walk on a thread over volcanoes?
What assumption to believe in when the punishment happens to the sound of church organs?
With this new show, the thirteenth in thirty years, Zingaro pursues its indomitable, equestrian and poetic quest, into the unknown. The laughter also ambles often in this pit of chimeras, each time reinvented, where whitefaced clowns who look like butchers twist and turn on popular tunes.
On achève bien les anges (élégies) is available on DVD here.
A creation by: Théâtre équestre Zingaro
Conception, stage direction, scenography: Bartabas
Stage direction Assistant: Anne Perron
Costumes: Laurence Bruley, assisted by Yannick Laisné, Anaïs Abel, Lucie Bourdais, Julia Brochier, Sonia Evin, Thérèse Fert, Maud Lemercier, Samir N’ Khili
Wigs and make-up: Cécile Kretschmar
Accessories: Lélia Demoisy, Benjamin Lefebvre, Alicia Maistre, Johann Perruchon, Blueberry Pichon, Sébastien Puech, Roland Zimmermann
Photography: © Hugo Marty
Title Design: Ernest Pignon-Ernest
Press Contact : DRC/ Dominique Racle
Coproduction
Les Nuits de Fourvière – Lyon
La Coursive, Scène Nationale de La Rochelle,
CIRCA, Pôle National Cirque – Auch,
Le Quartz, Scène Nationale de Brest.
On achève bien les anges (élégies) was created on June 8th, 2015 at Les Nuits de Fourvière festival in Lyon.
With:
Horseriders:
Bartabas, Stéphane Drouard,
Michaël Gilbert, Loreleï Josserand,
Noureddine Khalid, Mathias Lyon,
Gaëlle Pollantru-Gevertz, Etienne Régnier,
Alice Séghier, Messaoud Zeggane.
Musicians:
François Marillier (Music Direction),
Janyves Coïc, Cyrille Lacombe,
Yuka Okazaki, William Panza, Paulus.
Butcher-confectioner:
Riton Carballido
Horses:
Angelo, Antonete, Arruza, Barock, Belmonte, Bombita, Cagancho, Calacas, Le Caravage, Chicuelo, Conchita-Citron, Conquete, Dominguin, El Cordobes, El Gallo, El Soro, El Viti, Famine, Guerre, Joselito, Le Greco, Majestic, Manolete, Manzaneres, Misère, Nimeño, Paquiri, Posada, Soutine, Tarzan, Tintoret, Zurbaran, La Mule et L’âne.
2015-2016 TOUR
Nuits de Fourvières – Lyon: June 8 – July 1, 2015
Circa – Auch: August 21 – September 9 ,2015
Théâtre Zingaro – Aubervilliers: October 23 – December 31, 2015
Le Quartz – Scène Nationale de Brest: March 26 – April 24, 2016
La Coursive – Scène Nationale de La Rochelle: May 3 – 22, 2016
Sortie Ouest- Béziers / Printemps des Comédiens: June 11 – July 10, 2016
Théâtre Zingaro – Aubervilliers: September 30 – December 31, 2016
After “Entr’aperçu” (“Glimpse”) and “Le Centaure et l’animal” (“The Centaur and the animal”), Bartabas returns to the stage for a « mano a mano » with contemporary flamenco dancer Andrés Marín, in a dialogue between man, animal, dance and the silent music of Tomas Luís de Victoria; proving once again that flamenco is a living art that knows no boundaries.
Golgota is available on DVD here.
Production: Bartabas and Andrés Marín
Conception, stage direction, scenography: Bartabas
Stage direction Assistant Anne Perron
Costumes: Sophie Manac’h and Yannick Laisné
Accessories: Sébastien Puech
Music: Tomás Luis de Victoria
Choreographed and performed by:
Andrés Marín and Bartabas
Musicians: Christophe Baska, Adrien Mabire, Marc Wolff
Actor: William Panza
Horses: Horizonte, Tintoret, Soutine, Champagne and Lautrec the donkey.
2013 – 2016 TOUR
Golgota was created on October 8th, 2013.
2013
Annecy – Aix-en-Provence – Amiens
2014
Paris – La Rochelle – Blagnac – Lyon – Perpignan – Châteauvallon – Vaison-la-Romaine – Torino (Italy) – Mulhouse – Brest – Antibes – Lorient – Tarbes – Albi
2015
Bordeaux – Quimper – Valenciennes – Roma (Italy)
2016
London (UK)
After having pounded the ground of his Théâtre Equestre Zingaro for more than a quarter of a century, Bartabas is now tackling the skies. There he intends to celebrate with renewed vigour, chasing after the grim reaper and the living dead on horseback. Prepare yourself to enter into the dance of the joyful soul, performed before your very eyes and above your head. A twofold, wild and furious carnival, led by the sound of Chinchineros drums, Mexican brass bands and the barrel organ, with, as always, the presence of horses, the surest psychopompos animal ever to act as escort, steed, messenger and guardian angel.
A creation by: Théâtre équestre Zingaro
Conception, stage direction, scenography: Bartabas
Stage direction Assistant Anne Perron
Decorations and costumes: Laurence Bruley
Masks: Cécile Kretschmar
Musical advisor : Jean-Pierre Drouet
Coproduction: La Coursive – Scène Nationale de La Rochelle, Les Nuits de Fourvière – Lyon, LMP Music production – Switzerland.
Photography: © Agathe Poupeney (2 to 10) / © Hugo Marty – (11)
Title design: Ernest Pignon-Ernest
With
Horseriders: Laurence Dirou, Michaël Gilbert, Noureddine Khalid, Mathias Lyon, Gaëlle Pollantru, Etienne Régnier, Alice Seghier, Messaoud Zeggane
Musicians: Sébastien Clément (en alternance avec Théo Mérigeau), François Marillier (en alternance avec Richard Dubelski)
Chinchineros : Pepa Toledo et Luis Toledo
Le Baron as himself
Horses: Antonete, Arruza, Belmonte, Bombita, Cagancho, Calacas, Chamaco, Chicuelo, Conchita Citron, Dominguin, Edwin, El Cordobes, El Gallo, El Soro, El Viti, Espartaco, Joselito, Lobero, Majestic, Manolete, Manor, Manzanares, Nimeno, Paquiri, Phare Ouest, Posada, Tarzan
Calacas was created in Aubervilliers on November 2nd, 2011.
2012 – 2014 TOUR
2012
La Coursive, Scène Nationale de La Rochelle,
Festival des Nuits de Fourvière à Lyon,
CIRCA, Pôle National Cirque de Auch
Le Quartz, Scène Nationale de Brest.
Théâtre équestre Zingaro, Aubervilliers
2013
Mulhouse – Genève – Bègles – Aubervilliers
2014
Mexico City (Mexico) – Martigues – Yutz – Calais – Caen
“The centaur and the animal”
« Guided by man during the long apprenticeship that is dressage, the horse accesses a level of “knowledge”, thus turning man and animal into a centaur.
Conversely, man looks to bring back to the surface the animal instinct at the origins of his creation, like a journey back through evolution, a regression back into the deepest layers of his being. »
Bartabas
« Bartabas’s meeting with Ko Murobushi, one of the most famous and renowned artists in Japan, heir to Tatsumi Hijikata’s rules of Butoh, looks to be an exciting artistic adventure that examines the boundaries and passages between two sensitive and exceptional worlds. This proffered work also probes the question of animality and the relationship between man and beast, one of our many contemporary questions.
The intense depth of Ko Murobushi’s choreography and the poignant strength of Bartabas’ equestrian movements is set to open up an unexpected continent, which will undoubtedly propel us into a time and mythical space of deep and radiant beauty. »
Jose Montalvo
« Bartabas and Ko Murobushi conjure spells where body language, as if trapped in a halo of mystery, borrows from the imagination of Butoh or free dance. The horses, Horizonte, Soutine, Pollock and Le Tintoret, invite themselves into this ritual between wilderness and poetry. At the edge of genres, Le Centaure et l’animal establishes itself as a clearly spellbinding opera of the bodies, both human and animal. »
Philippe Noisette
Le Centaure et l’Animal is available on VOD here and on DVD here.
Conception, stage direction, scenography: Bartabas
Choreography: Ko Murobushi and Bartabas
Music: Jean Schwarz
Light: Françoise Michel
Production: Théâtre équestre Zingaro – Théâtre National de Chaillot – Sadler’s Wells Theatre – Arts 276/Automne en Normandie
With the support of Odyssud – Blagnac et of l’ EPCC Le Volcan, Scène nationale du Havre
Photography: © Nabil Boutros
With:
Bartabas and Ko Murobushi
and the participation of Raveendran Peringaden
Horses: Horizonte, Soutine, Pollock and Le Tintoret
Text by Lautréamont, from ‘Chants de Maldoror’
said by Jean-Luc Debattice
2010 – 2013 TOUR
Le Centaure et l’Animal was created on September 14th, 2010 at Odyssud-Blagnac
2010
Odyssud-Blagnac / Le Havre, Le Volcan – Festival Automne en Normandie / Paris – Théâtre national de Chaillot
2011
La Rochelle – La Coursive / Londres – Sadler’s wells (UK) / Montpellier / Barcelone (Espagne) – Turin – Annecy
2012
Brest / Amiens / Hong-Kong (Chine) / Bobigny
2013
Santiago (Chili)
Meaning “sight” or “vision” in Sanskrit, the term Darshan is a practice that consists in glimpsing the divine, such as in the temporary unveiling of the statue of a god or the fleeting contemplation of a special deity or holy person. This “vision” is meant to convey to the spectator some of the virtues and teachings attributed to the represented subject. Darshan thus combines visual solicitation and revelation. It reveals a part of what is invisible: it increases your sight tenfold.
For this Théâtre Equestre Zingaro’s creation, Bartabas has designed a huge circular shadow theatre in strange continuous movement, leading the audience into pleasant gravitation.
Once more, Bartabas invites us on a journey to our inner selves. He offers a palette of strong emotions that travel through time and space in a shadow theatre where dreams ride around on horses.
A creation by: Théâtre équestre Zingaro
Conception, stage direction, scenography: Bartabas
Stage direction Assistant: Anne Perron
Photography
© Agathe Poupeney : (1, 2, 4, 6, 7 et 8)
© Antoine Poupel : (3, 5, 9 et 10)
With
Horseriders
Bartabas, Manuel Bigarnet, Marion Duterte, Michaël Gilbert, Pauline Gosselin, Solenn Heinrich, Gaëlle Pollantru-Gevertz, Benoît Margat, Étienne Régnier, Alice Seghier, Messaoud Zeggane
Horses
Antonete, Apollon, Arès, Ascleptos, Arruza, Belmonte, Bombita, Cagancho, Chamaco, Chicuelo, Chronos, Conchita, Citron, Déméter, Dionysos, Dominguin, Edwin, El Cordobes, El Gallo, El Soro, El Viti, Éros, Espartaco, Frascuelo, Héphaïstos, Héra, Hermès, Joselito, Lobero, Loulou 90, Majestic, Manolete, Manor, Manzanares, Nimeño, Pan, Paquiri, Poséidon, Xisto, Zeus and Horizonte.
TOUR 2009 – 2010
For the 25th anniversary of the Théâtre équestre Zingaro, Bartabas decided not to go around the world with big tops, horses and caravans.
Taking the opposite direction, he chose to stay in his wooden theatre during the whole 2009-2010 season, and created Darshan for the first time in the Fort of Aubervilliers, where it was performed 175 times.
“Between the dark greens of Transylvania, the land of a thousand mountains, and the light green washes of Moldavia, woods and meadows stretch out with no fences or barbed wire to separate them into small portions. It is here or perhaps even further away over the horizon, that the musicians have their origins – musicians from the Transylvanian “taraf” of Cluj-Napoca and players in the Shukar fanfare from Zece Prajini in Moldavia. Sons of India, then heirs to the markets of Central Asia, called, depending where they are, Romany, “tsigane”, “manouche”, “yéniche”, “gitan”, gypsy, Circassian, Bohemian, “romanichel” or “marligodier” – terms that today all have a more or less marginal connotation, and which are the milestones on their long journey to the west. In Romania, they can talk to each other in Romanian, Hungarian and sometimes even in German. At the time of the First Empire, they still had their place as genealogical bards and advisors to the princes in power in Central Europe since the 14th century and they possessed herds of well-fed livestock and horses. However, the language they speak amongst themselves, Romany, is derived from Sanskrit, and Indo-European words ring strangely in the ears of contemporary listeners. So, “Battuta”, the name of the show, a word used both in Romany and Rumanian, enters into the game of zigzagging definitions.
In the energy of the battuta, Bartabas releases, one after the other, the keys to the show and perhaps its enigmas as well, for despite its musical framework, the show is very different from simply being an evocation of Central European gypsies.”
Françoise Gründ
A creation by: Théâtre équestre Zingaro
Conception, stage direction, scenography: Bartabas
Stage direction Assistant: Anne Perron
Costumes of the riders and horses: Marie-Laurence Schakmundès and Sylvie Berthou
Costume makers: Eve Leroux, Evelyne Mettot, Alain de Raucourt, Gérard Viard, Yannick Laisné, Mathilde Augereau
Costume of the bear: Gérard Viard
Dresser: Yannick Laisné
Photography © Antoine Poupel
Production
Théâtre Équestre Zingaro, Istanbul Foundation for Culture and Arts, Festival d’Avignon, Théâtre de Namur, La Coursive, Scène Nationale de La Rochelle.
With:
Horseriders:
Mathieu Bianchi, Manuel Bigarnet, Julie Blavier, Sarah Boulier, Damien Chauvet, Sébastien Desenne, Abderrahman El Bahjaoui, Abdessadek El Bahjaoui, Michael Gilbert, Benjamin Grain, Solenn Heinrich, Jonathan Lambert, Alice Seghier, Batraz Tsokolaev, Cédric Vallas, Messaoud Zeggane
Moldavian Shukar brass band:
Costel Alexandru, Gheorghe Dumitru, Dumitru Gavril, Vasile Gavril, Constantin Pantiru, Costica Pantiru, David Pantiru, Janica Pantiru, Liviu Pantiru, Stefan Trifan
Transylvanian Taraf :
Francisc Balogh, Aladar Pusztai, Florin Szilaghi, Alexiu Turca, Kalman Urszuj
Horses
Apollon, Ares, Chronos, Demeter, Dionysos, Eros, Hephaistos, Hera, Hermès, Pan, Poseidon, Zeus, Antonete, Arruza, Belmonte, Bombita, Cagancho, Chamaco, Chicuelo, Conchita, Dominguin, El Cordobes, El Gallo, El Soro, El Viti, Espartaco, Frascuelo, Joselito, Manolete, Manzanares, Nimeno, Paquiri. Lobéro, Loulou, Meia lua, Monoi. and Narthex the donkey
2006 – 2009 TOUR
Battuta was created in Istanbul in May, 2006 and performed more than 430 times in France and abroad.
2006
Istanbul (Turkey) – Avignon (FR) – Namur (Belgium) – Luxembourg (L.) – Aubervilliers (FR)
2007
Rennes (FR) – La Rochelle (FR) – Avenches (Switzerland) – Aubervilliers (FR)
2008
Hong-Kong (China) – Poznan (Poland) – Lyon (FR) – Brussels (Belgium) – Aubervilliers (FR)
2009
Tokyo (Japan) – Moscow (Russia)
“Sunrise”
Far from ingenious devices and tricks and just long enough for the sun to rise, Bartabas parts with the spectacular in favour of listening and touching on the basics, savouring with the audience a magical moment, suspended in time and unpretentious, in which the relationship between man and beast is reinvented.
From Fès to Avignon, not forgetting Paris, Bartabas made his silent “prayer” accompanied by music.
This is not a show. There is nothing to see and everything to experience.
Bartabas has chosen to share this precious, fragile moment “almost unashamedly”: his daily routine with his horses, at dawn.
Horserider : Bartabas
Horse : Le Caravage
Charcoal drawings by Jean-Louis Sauvat
Lever de Soleil was created in 2006 and performed in:
2006 : Paris, Avignon (FR), Namur (Belgium)
2007 : Ile d’Aix, Fès (Morocco), Laon (FR)
2008 : Lyon (FR)
2009 : Paris
2010 : Printemps des Comédiens – Montpellier (FR)
2011 : Fère en Tardenois (FR), St Michel en Thiérache (FR), Meinier (Switzerland)
2012 : Fontevraud Abbey (FR), Saint-Denis (FR), Brest (FR)
2013 : Lormont (FR), Blanquefort (FR)
2017 : Saint-Michel en Thiérache Abbey (FR)
2018 : Lake of Annecy (FR), Saint-Jorioz (FR)
2019 : Villenave-d’Ornon (FR)
“Glimpse”
“So many things, half-seen, can never be seen.”
Victor Segalen – in ‘Paintings”
Bartabas takes us in the footsteps of Victor Segalen. Among landscapes and calligraphy, the China that is suggested is then revealed within the framework of a very intimate voyage. For the first time, Bartabas is directing a show on a theatre stage: the ‘ring master’ is tackling the frontal stage of the Théâtre du Châtelet.
For this venture, Bartabas has chosen horses as his travelling companions, lost in these Chinese landscape paintings… Amongst tulle and kakemonos, shadows and light, the stage is transformed. The reality is no longer perceptible: all we can do is catch glimpses of it. This change of perception will enable us to truly experience this imaginary voyage.
Photography
© Fred Chehu (1, 2 and 4 to 10)
© Antoine Poupel (3 and 11)
Conception, stage direction: Bartabas
Stage direction Assistant: Anne Perron
Assisted by: Camille Foucher
Musical creation: Jean-Pierre Drouet
Music instruments created by: Claudine Brahem
Scenography and video: Eric Duranteau
Scenography collaborator: Murielle Trembleau
Calligraphy, paintings: Yolaine Escande
Costumes: Yohji Yamamoto, Marie-Laurence Schakmundès, Gérard Viard
Lights creation: Manuel Bernard, Loïc Merrien
Sonic space design: Etienne Bultingaire
Horse logistics: Etienne Gasson
Horse carers: Anne-Laure Clusaz, Laetitia Mouis, Léa Forge, Cécile Kluk, Sarah Boulier
Dresser: Yannick Laisné
With
Bartabas
Sole Mïo
Miyoko Schida
Shadows
Francis Fouchier, Franck Bonnot
Musicians
Jean-Pierre Drouet, Gaston Sylvestre
Horses
Horizonte, Le Caravage, Lobero, Pantruche, Soulages, Zanzibar, Mars, Vénus, Pluton, Saturne, Mercure, Jupiter
The words of Victor Segalen are read by Bartabas
Thanks to Renato Berta, Yohji Yamamoto, Théâtre Zingaro, Paraiso Production Diffusion, France Culture
DATES
‘Entr’Aperçu‘ was created for the Théâtre du Châtelet (Paris) and performed from September 14 to 23, 2004.
“To approach Tibet, even just with imagination or thought, is already an elevation. By exploring a sphere like this one, rendering it with sudden intuitions and transfigured scenes, Bartabas performs a new prodigy. In “Loungta, les chevaux de vent” (“the horses of wind”), he draws his inspiration, as accurately as possible, and with great respect, from a singular civilization with a unique spirituality, without drifting away from his horseman perspectives, his personal quest, his aesthetics.
Here, the breath of Tibet, with its rites, its dances, its masks, its symbols and the deep songs of the Gyuto monks, imposes itself with appearances, violent tremors, calm meditations, contorted parades, as if the merry-go-round of existence was performed against a sheer, rear background, on every visible and invisible modes, as if the glimpsed images combined the force of a wraith and the power of revelation. In every instant, the gaze is alarmed, enchanted, pushed around, invited to follow paths through airlocks of light and shadows, with unexpected breaks, flashes of conscience, unveilings turned into offerings.” – André Velter
A creation by: Théâtre équestre Zingaro
Conception, stage direction, scenography: Bartabas
Stage direction Assistant: Anne Perron
Costumes: Marie-Laurence Schakmundes, assisted by Eve Leroux, Elisabeth Cerqueira, Evelyne Mettot, François Siméon, Yannick Laisné, Alain de Raucourt
Masks: Ehrard Stiefel with Dominique Contesso assisted by Aydé Rouvière and Sigfrido Rivera
Hats and accessories: Gérard Viard
Make-up and hairstyles: Caroline Roy-Gönpo
Painting of the Dome and sets: Didier Martin and Laurence Durlot, Anne Garcia, Valia Sanz
Photography © Antoine Poupel
Production:
Théâtre Zingaro, in coproduction with the Theatre of Namur-ADAC, Le Cargo/Maison de la culture de Grenoble, Lille 2004, La Coursive – scène nationale de La Rochelle.
With the support of the French Ministère de la Culture, Conseil Général de Seine-Saint-Denis and the City of Aubervilliers.
Many thanks to the Department of Culture of the French Embassy in Delhi, to Mr. Tashi Phuntsok and Mr. Wangpo Bashi – Office of the Tibet in Paris, representative of His Holiness the Dalai Lama.
With:
Horseriders: Bartabas, Manuel Bigarnet, Ketile Dubus, Abderrahman El Bahjaoui, Mickael Gilbert, Benjamin Grain, Solenn Heinrich, Elodie Mathieu, Etienne Régnier, Igor Verlivskoï, Messaoud Zeggane
Tibetan Singer – dancer: Tenzin Gönpo
Dancers – musicians: Fabrice Andriamilantonirinason, Abdouel Karimou
The monks of the Monastery of Gyuto: Jhamba Genden, Lobsang Dargey, Tenzin Norbu, Migur Dorjee, Gyurmey Chogyal, Tashi Yoeser, Dhondup Thinlay, Lobsang Dorjee, Ngawang Thapkhe, Tsering Wangchuck
Horses: Apollon, Arès, Ascleptos, Chronos, Coppi, Darri, Demeter, Dionysos, Eros, Flash Okie Reina, Hades, Hephaistos, Hera, Hermes, Heza Great Royal Kid, Horizonte, Kid Label, King Black Solano, Le Caravage, Lobéro, Pan, Pantruche, Poseidon, Priape, Zanzibar, Zeus, and Narthex the donkey
Loungta was created in Moscow in May 2003 and performed 485 times in France and abroad.
2003-2005 TOUR
2003
Moscow (Russia) – Avignon – Namur (Belgium) – Grenoble – Aubervilliers
2004
Rennes – La Rochelle – Barcelona (Spain) – Nancy – Lille – Aubervilliers
2005
Tokyo (Japan) – Avenches (Switzerland) – Rome (Italy)
For the first time ever, Bartabas has choreographed a dance of horses and riders on composed pieces of music: ‘The Rite of Spring’ and the ‘Symphony of Psalms’ by Stravinsky and ‘Dialogue de l’Ombre Double‘ by Pierre Boulez.
Triptyk is available on DVD here.
A creation by: Théâtre équestre Zingaro
Conception, stage direction, scenography: Bartabas
Stage direction Assistants: Patricia Lopez, Anne Perron
Choreography Assistant: Julio Arozarena
Costumes: Marie-Laurence Schakmundés, assisted by: Eve Leroux, Perrine Coquin, Virginia Foal, Hadja Seghiri, Emerantine Vignon
Bootmaker: Patrick Valdivia
Make-up creation: Isabelle Guillaume
Headgear creation: Estelle Ramousse, Isabelle Guillaume
Sculptures: Jean-Louis Sauvat
Photography © Antoine Poupel
With
Horseriders: Bartabas, Dominique Beslay, Manuel Bigarnet, Kétile Dubus, Abderrahman El Bahjaoui, Abdessadek El Bahjaoui, Michael Gilbert, Laure Guillaume, Magali Huercio, Laetitia Letourneur, Elodie Mathieu, Pénélope Purtell ou Pamela Djae, Etienne Régnier, Messaoud Zeggane.
Dancers: Julio Arozarena, Anouck Tissot.
Kalaripayatt Dancers : Shamsudheen Areekal Meethel, Sreenivasan Edappurath, Unni Krishnan Inneerakath Madhavan, Manoj Palamparambil Kuttan, Binoy Palayil Abraham, Raveendran Peringadan Sankuru, Rakesh Pulukkaol.
Clarinet player : (alternately) Alain Damiens (solist at l’Ensemble Inter Contemporain) or Yoshinobu Kamei
Horses: Akim, Babile, Balanchine. Barychnikov, Coppi, Dari, Est, Farinelli, Gitan, Goya, Grain d’or, Horizonte, Lifar, Luz, Nijinsky, Noureev, Nord, Ouest, Picasso, Porcinelli, Ramonero, Riton regent, Sud.
2000-2002 TOUR
Triptyk was created in Amsterdam in April 2000 and performed more than 370 times in France and abroad.
2000
Amsterdam (Netherlands) – Lausanne (Switzerland) – Avignon – Anvers (Belgium) – Villepinte – Aubervilliers
2001
La Rochelle – Lyon – Moscow (Russia) – Barcelona (Spain) – Namur (Belgium) – Athens (Greece) – Aubervilliers
2002
St Etienne – Montpellier – Los Angeles (USA)
“[…] For Zingaro, each representation is but a step of a long journey. Eclipse is showing the path traveled. A new approach: dancers have become riders alongside riders turned dancers. A new constraint this time: no more colours, only darkness and light. Foremost, a new musical encounter: the Shinawi melodies and the “bloody voices” of Pansori song; or the sharing by the tribe of the ancestral inner strength from the land of calm mornings: Korea. […]” – Anne Laurent
A creation by: Théâtre équestre Zingaro
Conception, stage direction, scenography: Bartabas
Costumes
Conception and making of costumes: Marie-Laurence Schakmundes, with: Hélène Dumont, Malika El Houssine, Yannick Laisné, Eve Leroux, Evelyne Mettot, Denis Charlemagne.
Make-up: Isabelle Guillaume
Wigs: Marandino
Horses’ costumes: Yannick Laisné, Jocelyn Petot, Max Soulignac.
Photography: © Antoine Poupel
Production
Théâtre Zingaro – Rurhfestspiele in Recklinghausen – Théâtre de Vidy in Lausanne – Festival d’Avignon – Roularta Events in Anvers – La Coursive in La Rochelle – Théâtre du Gymnase in Marseille.
Partners
With the support of: the French Ministère de la Culture, of Conseil Général de Seine-Saint-Denis and the City of Aubervilliers.
With the support of La Maison des Cultures du Monde.
Special thanks to: l’UBP Madeleine, French Cultural Centre in Seoul, Korean Cultural Centre in Paris.
With :
Horseriders :
Julio Arozarena, Bartabas, Nathalie Barot, Manuel Bigarnet, Catherine Bosch, Kétile Dubus, Abderrahman El Bahjaoui, Laure Guillaume, Etienne Regnier, Quincella Swyningan, Aicha Touré, Messaoud Zeggane.
Korean music:
Singer of Pansori : Sung-Sook Chung
Musicians : Jong Lak Roh, Sung Su Han, In Tae Kim, Sean Jea Kim, Dae Gu Lee, Kee Young Nam.
Horses:
Brosok, Diktor, Djinn, Dombay, Domino, Donor, Edwin, El Chulo, Felix, Gamo, Horizonte, Lautrec, Meaoula, Mowgli, Orlof, Ocliv, Picasso, Quixotte, Ryton Regent, Sold’Oa, Sultan, Terminator, Vinaigre, Xantos, Xérès, Zingaro.
1997 – 1999 Tour
Eclipse was created in Recklinghausen (Germany) in May 1997 and performed 376 times in France and abroad
1997
Recklinghausen (Germany) – Lausanne (Switzerland) – Avignon (FR) – Anvers (Belgium) – Aubervilliers (FR)
1998
La Rochelle (FR) – Marseille (FR) – New-York (USA) – Aubervilliers (FR)
1999
Aubervilliers (FR) – Lyon (FR) – Spoleto (Italy) – Namur (Belgium)
“Chimera”
The Théâtre équestre Zingaro stirs together several travel cultures, which gave birth to it and inspired it. Suffused with the heritage of its imaginary ancestors, the Zingaro tribe slowly became a wandering people, with ancestral cultures. With Chimère, Zingaro goes back in time, guided by horses towards the banks of the Indian civilization, in the desert plains of Thar, to the origins of the nomadic people.
A creation by: Théâtre équestre Zingaro
Conception, stage direction, scenography: Bartabas
Stage direction Assistant: Patricia Lopez
Conception and making of costumes: Marie-Laurence Schakmundes with Hélène Dumont, Yannick Laisné
Horses’ costumes: Marie Cabanac, Maïka Fernandez
Photography © Antoine Poupel
Production
Théâtre Zingaro – Ruhrfestspiele – Conseil général de Seine Saint-Denis – Festival d’Avignon with the support of the French Ministère de la Culture and the City of Aubervilliers
with the cooperation of Adami
with the cooperation of la Maison des Cultures du Monde
Special thanks to M. Keshav Kothari, M. Komal Kothari and to the UBP.
With :
Horseriders: Bartabas, Manuel Bigarnet, Shantih Breikers, Jean-Pierre Drouet or François Bedel, Arnaud Gillette, Laure Guillaume, Claire Leroy, Brigitte Marty, Pierrick Moreau, Jocelyn Petot, Bernard Quental, Etienne Regnier, Eva Schakmundes, Shantala Shivalingappa or Mahalaksami Ravindran, Max Soulignac
Musicians from Rajasthan
Anwar Khan, Barkat Khan, Bundu Khan, Fakir Khan, Ghewar Khan, Habib Khan, Hakam Khan, Kheta Khan, Nagge Khan, Samundar Khan
Group leader: Sawaî Singh Rathore
Horses: L’Araignée, Boris, Diktor, Djin, Dombay, Domino, Felix, Felouz, Goya, Jazz, Latoso, Lautrec, Micha-Figua, Orlof, Quichotte, Raspoutine, Redondo, Ryton Regent, Sol d’oa, Swann, Vinaigre, Verano, Xantos, Xeres, Zingaro, Zorba
TOUR 1994-1996
“Chimère” was created in Recklinghausen (Germany) in May 1994 and performed more than 400 times in France and abroad.
1994
Recklinghausen (Germany) – Vienna – Avignon – Lausanne (Switzerland) – Aubervilliers
1995
Brussels (Belgium) – La Rochelle – Lausanne (Switzerland) – Lyon – Aubervilliers
1996
Toulouse – Montpellier – Nice – Marseille – Anvers (Belgium) – New-York (USA)
Through the encounter of its nomadic ancestors, Zingaro goes deeper into its quest for an archaic identity. As a witness and partner in this human adventure, the horse reflects the identity of the man by his side and is a result of his history and spiritual aspirations. […] In this ritual challenge of a show, two tribes of riders and singers – one influenced by the Berbers, the other by the Caucasians – meet and compete with each other, playing on their differences and similarities.
Bartabas
The Opéra Equestre film is available in DVD here.
A creation by Théâtre équestre Zingaro
Conception, stage direction, scenography: Bartabas
Costumes: Marie-Laurence Schakmundès
Photography © Antoine Poupel
With:
Horseriders: Bartabas, Manu Bigarnet, Shantih Breikers, Pierre Furic, Patrick Labasque, Claire Leroy, Alfred Manuel, Brigitte Marty, Jocelyn Petot, Pascal Petot, Bernard Quental, Etienne Régnier, Geneviève Renon, Eva Schakmundès, Juliette Sane, Max Soulignac
Musicians: Fatima Aibout, Tamaz Butskhrikidze, Jean-Pierre Drouet, Maizer Gazdeliani, Aïni Iften, Toma Karanadze, Yvan Kavlelichivili, Tariel Khatchidze, Nadia Lekaf, Chota Machakadze, Levieri Mikadze, Afida Tahri, Rkia Tahri, Chermadis Tchkouaseli, Samia Yahiaoui, Tamaz Zakarachvili
Horses: Arlequin, Athys, Boris, Dicktor, Djinn, Dolaci, Dombay, Domino, Félix, Istanbul, Jazz, Latoso, Micha Figa, Orlov, Pacha, Quixote, Rarouck, Raspoutine, Redondo, Ryton Régent, Swann, Timour, Verano, Zingaro
Donkeys: Amos, Lucienne, Popov and Caramel the camel
TOUR (1991-1993)
Recklinghausen (Germany), Avignon, Aubervilliers, Lyon, Montpellier, Nancy, Caen, Le Havre, Toulouse, Anvers (Belgique), Madrid (Espagne)
Equestrian Cabaret
“Its caravans, its music and its horses give it the looks of a circus but here, the show is a ritual, the music a vocation and the love of horses a religion. There are no ‘numbers’ but rather a touch, a note, a whole, a moment, a scene…”
Bartabas
The Cabaret Equestre film is available in DVD here.
TOURS
Cabaret I Tour (1984 – 1987) : Bordeaux, Nîmes, Paris, Les Mureaux, Martigues, Avignon (Festival Off), Aurillac, Poitiers, Chambéry, Montpellier, Riom, Lyon, Hérouville, Toulouse, Epinal, Mulhouse, Saint-Étienne, Madrid, Logroño, Zamora, Avila, Sitges, Yverdon, Geneva, Lausanne, Monthey, Sarrebruck, Nuremberg.
Cabaret II Tour (1987 – 1989) : Avignon (Festival Off), Paris, Nantes, le Havre, Lyon, Reims, Villeneuve d’Ascq, Lille, Bordeaux, Villeurbanne, Modène, Milan, Rome, Naples, Bari, Sant’arcangelo, Pontedera, Volterra, Mantoue, Massa, Copenhagen, Arhus, Geneva, Namur.
Cabaret III Tour (1989 – 1990) : Avignon (Festival In), Aubervilliers, Modena, Milano, Roma, Volterra
A creation by Théâtre équestre Zingaro
Conception, stage direction, scenography: Bartabas
Photography © Alain Sauvan (4 & 7)
Presidents: Richard Esteban (aka « le Potier »), Dominique Girard (aka « le Baron »)
Cast in Cabaret I :
Horseriders: Bartabas, Branlo, Cascabelle, Geza, Igor, Bernard Malandin, Napoléon Gulliver, Nigloo
Horses: Akim, Champagne, Chaparo, Dolaci, Mirage, Raymonde (the Mule), Redondo, Zingaro
“Les Micos”: Mathias Crespin, Gaby, Frank Herscher, Marcus, Paulus