Horses Take to the Stage in Britain for the First Time in 40 Years...

Tickets go on sale for this Sadler's Wells performance
beginning November 15.

Horses will take to a London stage for the first time in almost 40 years in a specially commissioned performance for Sadler's Wells. The Centaur and the Animal is being choreographed by world-renowned rider, director and stage designer Bartabas. Over the last 25 years, he and his company Zingaro Equestrian Theatre, based in France, have toured the world from New York to Tokyo but until now have never performed in Britain.

The show will combine classic dressage with circus tricks in which the horses will pirouette, spin and trot on the spot mid-turn. For the Sadler's Wells performance, Bartabas has been training his horses in the art of butoh, an avant-garde dance form which originated in Japan and involves precise, minutely controlled movements. He choreographed the show with Ko Murobushi, a leading Japanese butoh master who brought the form to Europe.

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