Street spectacle

A fascinating duet of a dancer and a giant horse tells a story brimming with poetry and humour. They both try to tame one another. Yet building relationships – as is always the case in life – takes time and patience. The encounter begins; they seek one another, spin, observe, frighten, draw closer, address, even dance, try to get away from one another to better find each other again. Will they be able to make friends?

An attractive acrobatic performance with a giant horse puppet as the protagonist speaks about the unplanned, yet unavoidable encounter between man and animal, or – the story of how fear turns to lust and the grace of natural move(ment)s of the body forms a perfect unity with a live, yet still mechanically controlled object ….

Runtime: 60 min

Cie. Paris-Bénarès