Until february 14, 2007
On a side ten musicians of the Moldavian brass band Shukar de Zece
Prajini in the crash of coppers, other five of the Transylvanian taraf
of Cluj-Napoca in the transport of the cords. They go along the
incredible round by the horses and the acrobats. We rediscover with an
intact pleasure the beautiful spectacle presented last summer within
the framework of the Festival of Avignon. Battuta means “beaten”,
“Roumanian impulse”, “beaten” and “joke” in Italian, “rod of chief” in
Spanish… and also returns to the Moroccan traveller of the XIVth
century, Ibn Battûta…
After a long round, Zingaro found its village of wood buildings of
Aubervilliers. In the hearth decorated with elements of the preceding
productions, all the history of the equestrian Theatre is there, with
the first posters of Chambas, the masks Tibetans, all these objects
which return to the real voyages of Bartabas and the imaginary voyages
in which it has involved for more than twenty-five years its public. We
passe by two galleries above them stables to join the room plunged in
the half-light. A water column which will not cease running, image of
the eternal restarting of the life, is used as axis with the track on
which already the horses have patience. They will leave the scene only
one hour and half later, after having crossed water and for certain to
have rolled itself in ochre sand, with complete freedom.
Here, lifting continuations, removals, exercises, all is played insane
pace, so quickly that the slower images which stress the spectacle, the
magic appearance of married with the veil which flies for example, are
like suspended fragments of a dream, so quickly that one is never
certain all to seize! It is superb. Radiant joy and the elegance of
excellence, humour, 35 horses, some dogs, a bear a little gift Juan, a
goose with the spread wings, and these 16 dazzling riding, girls like
boys, in the romantic transport of Roms. For so many shared happiness,
children like adults, by the grace of a sensitive ultra artist named
Bartabas.
