Freedom of movement
Once there was a far, far away culture. It was so far off that not even the swiftest of lips were even capable of reaching its understanding, a place of uncommon spaces open to the wind, of right and left-handed blows, of barbaric lights on wild forms free of any shackles and dancing with the freest of will. Once there appeared a centaur which had fled the Occidental culture of ungrateful masses.
There they had forgotten the myths, they had them squirreled away, gathering dust and sending fouls whiffs into arsenals of restless dreams, of an absence of imagination, of bread for today and hunger for tomorrow and grandiose clouds of smoke that broke upon their reflection in the first mirror they encountered. In that far off world, however, the centaur found an animal upon the stage, Ko Murobushi, making creative love with the spirituality of Bartabas. And everything went on in a completely free atmosphere.
Text by Juan Carlos Romero
Le centaure et l'animal, directed and created by Bartabas, coreography by Ko Murobushi and Bartabas
Website www.bartabas.fr
Photos by Nabil Boutros. Courtesy of Barcelona Festival Grec.