Pioneer of a new expression, conjugating equestrian art, musics, dance and comedy, Bartabas invented and staged tactfully, ardour and intuition, a new shape of live performance: the equestrian theater.
Great ideas are often born in very small places… Bartabas’ caravan is a perfect illustration of this…
For the cinema, Bartabas has directed two full-length films: Mazeppa(1993, awarded with the Technical Grand Prize in Cannes) and Chamane(«Shaman», 1995), both produced by Marin Karmitz.
Galop Arrière (« Backward Canter»), is seen as a “tracking of memory” and a review of his whole journey and work.
” For a long time, publishers have asked me to tell the story of my life. But first I wanted and needed to get even with my horses, to show what I owe them, how much they made me, carried me…”