Description
For the third opus of Cabaret de l’exil, Bartabas pays tribute to Persian women.
Whether Afghan or Iranian, they too are artists in exile. Resilient and rebellious, they assert their identity and invoke ancestral memories, those of the ancient Scythian civilisation based on matriarchy. Among this nomadic people, the horse was a source of remarkable gender equality; travelling long distances on horseback and encouraging their mounts into battle was as much the prerogative of women as it was of men, as was the practice of the arts.
Texts and photographs from the show Cabaret de l’Exil – Femmes persanes
Photographs by Alfons Alt
Preface by Bartabas in French
