Le Ballade de Zingaro


Le Ballade de Zingaro
Françoise Gründ, 2000, hardcover, 184 pgs., color and b/w photographs. French language.

Gorgeous photographic album on the equestrian theatre troupe Zingaro, led by the enigmatic Bartabas. If you did not read the recent article (The French Aren't Sure How to Regain Their International Status; Chronicle of the Horse Dressage Issue 6-20-2003) on the re-opening of the equestrian school at the historic Palace of Versailles, we'll include a photocopy. Now under the control of Bartabas as an "art" school with horses, instead of the original plan to use the school to revive the French system to international prominence in dressage, this book will shed some light on the mysterious Bartabas and his "vision".