The Centaur and the Animal

Unlike anything you've ever seen, French horse trainer and theatrical director Bartabas collaborates with Japanese butoh master Ko Murobushi in a show that fuses animal and human qualities onstage. Bartabas draws on the spirit of butoh to create striking scenes of highly disciplined dressage with four specially chosen horses, while Murobushi morphs and contorts along the front of the stage. It's a dark and shadowy piece full of startling imagery and brooding atmosphere. It could also be said to be slow, self-indulgent, faintly disturbing and drowning under the weight of its own seriousness. Totally original though, and a real theatrical event.