Le centaure et l'animal

Tour dates:

Hong-Kong, le French May du 14 au 19 Mai 2012
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Bobigny, MC 93 du 8 au 22 septembre 2012
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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 relation between man and beast, one of our contemporaneousness’s many 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 to this ritual between wildness and poetry. On the borders of genres, Le Centaure et l’animal establishes itself as a clearly spellbinding opera of the bodies, both human and animal.
Philippe Noisette