Program Le centaure et l’animal

With this show, the thirteenth in thirty years, Zingaro continues his indomitable, equestrian and poetic quest into the unknown. Laughter often goes along in this pit of chimeras each time reinvented, where white clowns looking like butchers are stirring to popular tunes.

CABARET DE L'EXIL Portrayed by Alfons Alt   Total adventure in the heart of an ageless story; for almost forty years, Zingaro has continued his theatrical journey. To offer oneself to the public on horseback is to speak with them; invent an immemorial language ... An exchange beyond words, when the language of men is led to disappear and be reborn with the winds of history.   Exile almost always leads to the enrichment of one's own roots, it imposes a rebirth, a detachment from one's ancestral ties. Receiving this new sap requires courage and openness. This first "Cabaret of Exile" celebrates Yiddish culture and its klezmer music; a nomadic world in reference to the perpetual uprooting of the Jewish people. Yiddish, the language of exile par excellence, is today a dying language that may one day be reborn. As Bashevis Singer said with his devastating and devastating humor, when presenting his Nobel Prize for Literature: “I am often asked why I write in such a dead language. Why ? Because I believe in the resurrection. Not just in the resurrection of tongues, but in the resurrection of men. A dying tongue… perfect for those who are neither alive nor dead: ghosts! Nothing fits a ghost story better than a dying tongue. The more the language is dead, the more the ghosts are alive. "   Inspired by the bestiary of this "Cabaret of Exile", Alfons Alt reveals beyond nostalgia, which crosses time to imprint our souls, a real resurrection.   BARTABAS

"Entretiens Silencieux" was performed at the Equestrian Academy of Versailles in July 2021, in collaboration with Paris l'été festival and Festival d'Automne. Jean-Louis Sauvat sketches.

Get ready to enter a joyfully macabre soul dance, unfolding before your eyes as well as above your head. A double carnival led to the sound of chinchineros' drums, Mexican brass bands and barrel organs. With again and again the horse, the safest psycho-pumping animal as ferryman, messenger and guardian angel. A creation of the Zingaro Equestrian Theater Design, scenography and staging: Bartabas Assistant director: Anne Perron Sets and costumes: Laurence Bruley Masks : Cécile Kretschmar Musical adviser : Jean-Pierre Drouet Photography: Agathe Poupeney and Hugo Marty Title Drawing : Ernest Pignon-Ernest