ECLIPSE- A film by Bartabas, a co-production of Zingaro Theater (My Uploads, yet not mine)

For Zingaro, every show and every night is only a stage in a long journey. Eclipse shows the ground that has been covered. A new approach: with dancers. A new constraint: that of black and white, shadow and light. And notably a new musical encounter, Shinawi melodies and the stirring voices of Pansori music, instilling into the troupe the ancestral inner strength of Korea, the Land of the Morning Calm. -Bartabas The video puts the viewer in a seat at the edge of Zingaro’s specially built arena, and the letterbox framing reinforces the ribbonlike momentum of the performing ring. Insistent Korean music (guttural Pansori singing) drives the whirlpool of movement as kimono-clad and bewigged men and women interact with the 26 horses. Fluid camera work captures equally well the daredevil riding and tumbling activities and the voluptuously postured, Kabuki-like dances. All of the show’s mesmerizing highlights are captured: the prancing horse, pacing as if walking on eggs; the riderless steeds, tear