Zingaro: The horse connection
Everyone would have heard and seen about theatre groups formed by various actors coming in together however there is a highly successful theatre group that has a horse connection as most of its stage performances include men with horses. Theatre Zingaro is one exceptional group that has achieved a great amount of success in different parts of the world. The group formed by Bartabas was named after his favorite horse which accompanied him for a period of more than two decades. The performances of the group consist of well trained artistes performing with specially trained and talented horses.
The experience of witnessing a Zingaro show is like seeing the horses and men synchronising their moves and dancing as duets. Theatre Zingaro has inculcated a culture of exploring the different cultures from places situated in different locations on the globe. The tools used to express the emotions and the messages in the play are mostly by the means of poetic lines and musical notes. Most of the viewers are used to seeing humans perform in various musicals on stage as well as in a theatre but seeing the animals bringing in a new dimension to the entire experience of a theatre is really unusually pleasant.
The Zingaro group has performed various shows at various locations but most of them have been applauded by the audience, with each new story comes a new performance and with each new performance comes a new angle how the relation between man and horse has evolved over the years in different cultures and also about the cultural attributes regarding this relation. It all started in France and then moved across Europe and made it to the Americas and now is moving towards Asia hence Zingaro is a revolution in its own in terms of offering a new way of presenting theatre.