Pioneer of a new expression, conjugating equestrian art, musics, dance and comedy, Bartabas invented and staged tactfully, ardour and intuition, a new shape of live performance: the equestrian theater.
“Symbolically, our look is the one of the caravan. To live in a caravan, it is to live in human scale.”
For the cinema, Bartabas has directed two full-length films: Mazeppa(1993, awarded with the Technical Grand Prize in Cannes) and Chamane(«Shaman», 1995), both produced by Marin Karmitz.
Galop Arrière (« Backward Canter»), is seen as a “tracking of memory” and a review of his whole journey and work.