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which the Law of 4 Feet is illustrated very nicely. </FONT></P>
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<P class=MsoNormal style="MARGIN: 0cm 0cm 0pt"><FONT size=3>I wonder if you
see the allusion as metaphorical or, as Florian pleaded for
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<P class=MsoNormal style="MARGIN: 0cm 0cm 0pt"><FONT size=3>so
eloquently, the real thing!? </FONT></P>
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<P class=MsoNormal style="MARGIN: 0cm 0cm 0pt"><FONT size=3>"why, oh why we like
so much<BR>to look on something<BR>as if it is like another something<BR>why, oh
why we speak<BR>about something<BR>as if it is like another something
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<DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2>From: "Florian Fischer" <<A
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<H5 style="MARGIN: auto 0cm">November 30, 2004</H5>
<H2 style="MARGIN: auto 0cm">The Stage Is Set: Enter Horses at Full
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- On the beach near the Santa Monica Pier, Normand Latourelle is
successfully growing a small pasture of grass for his horses, all 37 of
them.</P>
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<P style="MARGIN: 0cm 0cm 0pt">Mr. Latourelle, a founder of the Cirque du
Soleil who is taking an elaborate new equestrian-based circuslike
extravaganza called "Cavalia" on tour, is a detail man who decided that
since horses like grass, grass they shall have, even on a beach. "The city
authorities, they said I was insane, but I found the right sod and seeds
to order, and look: grass," he said, showing off the sprouting green
blades. </P>
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<P style="MARGIN: 0cm 0cm 0pt">"In a week or two, horses can graze on
this," said Mr. Latourelle, a 49-year-old Canadian. He created "Cavalia,"
which is being presented through Jan. 2 inside a huge, 90-foot-high white
canvas tent pitched like a multitowered sand castle on the beach here.
</P>
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<P style="MARGIN: 0cm 0cm 0pt">The show, with its cavorting horses and
troupe of 32 riders, aerialists and acrobats who perform feats against
swirling images projected on a screen, has been selling out most of its
1,900 seats nightly since it opened here on Nov. 10. Ticket prices range
from $62 to $92 for all but a special section of special-package seats.
Mr. Latourelle said he expected to bring "Cavalia" - pronounced ca-VA-lya
- to New York in the spring. </P>
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<P style="MARGIN: 0cm 0cm 0pt">In 1985, Mr. Latourelle helped push the
Quebec-bred Cirque du Soleil from a motley collection of acrobats,
jugglers, clowns and other street performers into an international big-top
phenomenon. </P>
<P style="MARGIN: 0cm 0cm 0pt"> </P>
<P style="MARGIN: 0cm 0cm 0pt">He has replicated some of the Cirque
atmospherics for "Cavalia." But there is a big difference. While Cirque
does not use animals, "Cavalia" luxuriates in the horse. </P>
<P style="MARGIN: 0cm 0cm 0pt"> </P>
<P style="MARGIN: 0cm 0cm 0pt">Mr. Latourelle left Cirque in 1990. When
deliberating on the current project, he and his companion and business
partner, Dominique Day, decided that horses were just the thing, though
neither knew much about them. </P>
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<P style="MARGIN: 0cm 0cm 0pt">One thing Mr. Latourelle did know:
performing horses, shackled to bits and reins and obediently repeating
tricks as they circled a ring, would not do. He wanted horses that would
express the idea of freedom. </P>
<P style="MARGIN: 0cm 0cm 0pt"> </P>
<P style="MARGIN: 0cm 0cm 0pt">This concept - the horse unfettered - has
its charms but also poses some challenges, especially considering that
stallions were to be the stars in "Cavalia." </P>
<P style="MARGIN: 0cm 0cm 0pt">"You know about stallions?" Ms. Day asked
with a small laugh on opening night this month as she and Mr. Latourelle
watched the equestrian co-director and principal trainer, Frederic Pignon,
work with a gray Lusitano stallion in a training ring in the expansive
side tent where the horses are stabled. </P>
<P style="MARGIN: 0cm 0cm 0pt"> </P>
<P style="MARGIN: 0cm 0cm 0pt">Any experienced rider knows about
stallions. Most important is the fact that these proud, muscular,
unneutered male horses are intensely competitive, in a ring or on a
racetrack. Riding a stallion in the company of other stallions is not to
be done lightly, since macho horse-to-horse grudges can become suddenly,
brutally physical. </P>
<P style="MARGIN: 0cm 0cm 0pt"> </P>
<P style="MARGIN: 0cm 0cm 0pt">The "Cavalia" herd consists of hardy
breeds: swift quarter horses; fast, agile Arabians; proud Lusitanos; and
big, steady Percherons. Eighteen are stallions and the rest are geldings:
neutered males, still strong and sometimes willful, but without that
fierce stallion temperament. </P>
<P style="MARGIN: 0cm 0cm 0pt"> </P>
<P style="MARGIN: 0cm 0cm 0pt">"Cavalia: A Magical Encounter Between Man
and Horse" is being promoted as a celebration of the unique emotional and
physical bonds between humans and the animals. The performance is
presented on a 150-foot-wide stage: 150 feet is about the length a
galloping horse needs to create a blazing blur under the swirling lights,
as riders and soaring aerialists perform their stunts. </P>
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<P style="MARGIN: 0cm 0cm 0pt">Nonriders in the audience applaud loudest
for the high-flying riders' acrobatics. But experienced riders, who began
talking about the show during earlier performances in Seattle, San
Francisco and San Diego, can be heard murmuring appreciatively at stunts
that would be considered virtually impossible in show competition or
dressage. </P>
<P style="MARGIN: 0cm 0cm 0pt"> </P>
<P style="MARGIN: 0cm 0cm 0pt">Here is one you won't see at the Olympics:
a rider plants a leg on each back of a cantering pair as they circle the
stage and jump a five-foot-high hurdle while the rider executes a
somersault and manages to land, upright, in the original position. </P>
<P style="MARGIN: 0cm 0cm 0pt"> </P>
<P style="MARGIN: 0cm 0cm 0pt">Another act is more subtle. Mr. Pignon
cavorts with three unfettered white stallions onstage, putting them
through dressage paces. Mr. Pignon, a soft-spoken horseman who says that
the only way to train a horse is with patience and gentleness to build
mutual respect, then has each animal lie down, side by side. In turn, he
asks each to get up. Two do. The gag is that the third, a big, splendid
Lusitano, refuses importunings to arise. </P>
<P style="MARGIN: 0cm 0cm 0pt"> </P>
<P style="MARGIN: 0cm 0cm 0pt">"That's the hardest trick in the show," a
horsewoman in the audience whispered on opening night when the stallion
finally jumped up and joined his two companions in a wild, rearing
finale.</P>
<P style="MARGIN: 0cm 0cm 0pt"> </P>
<P style="MARGIN: 0cm 0cm 0pt">"Cavalia," with its herd and its 100-strong
company of performers, trainers, grooms, stagehands and others, was
expensive to mount. It took six years and $27 million before it opened
last year in Canada. "Raising the financing was the longest part, but of
course that allowed me a lot of time to think about what I wanted," Mr.
Latourelle said. </P>
<P style="MARGIN: 0cm 0cm 0pt"> </P>
<P style="MARGIN: 0cm 0cm 0pt">Both "Cheval," another horse-themed circus
created by a Cirque alumnus, and "Zingaro," a French horse circus, failed
to attract a sizable following in the United States. At each, horses
performed in traditional circus rings. </P>
<P style="MARGIN: 0cm 0cm 0pt"> </P>
<P style="MARGIN: 0cm 0cm 0pt">"We certainly didn't want to have a circus
with horses in a ring going round and round for two hours," Ms. Day
said.</P>
<P style="MARGIN: 0cm 0cm 0pt">Though many of the horses in "Cavalia" do
in fact perform fitted with saddles, reins and bits, Mr. Latourelle
insisted that the show hew to a narrative of the horse as free spirit. The
concept blossomed fully on a trip to France, where he and Ms. Day looked
up Mr. Pignon and his wife, Magali Delgado, who are prominent breeders and
trainers of Lusitanos.</P>
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<P style="MARGIN: 0cm 0cm 0pt">"At their farm in the south of France, I
was expecting to see the usual things - riding horses in the round," Mr.
Latourelle said. "Instead, Fred brought three stallions to the field and
started to run and play with them. For me, the script was partly written
right then: the dream for freedom. I said, this is the story we have to
tell, that it is possible to be in a good relationship with horses in
which there is mutual respect and a sense of the possibilities of
freedom."</P>
<P style="MARGIN: 0cm 0cm 0pt"> </P>
<P style="MARGIN: 0cm 0cm 0pt">He was sold when Ms. Delgado put one of her
Lusitanos through its paces using finger and body gestures. She is a
fearless rider who performs precise dressage movements on a stallion,
without reins or bit, and then gallops bareback merrily around the stage.
The four quickly teamed up. </P>
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<P style="MARGIN: 0cm 0cm 0pt"><FONT color=#0000ff>A major part of the
training philosophy is that respect is owed the wills, temperaments and
moods of a horse. "The stallions know they can just walk off that stage if
they want," Ms. Day said. </FONT></P>
<P style="MARGIN: 0cm 0cm 0pt"><FONT color=#0000ff></FONT> </P>
<P style="MARGIN: 0cm 0cm 0pt"><FONT color=#0000ff>Each performance of
"Cavalia" is predicated on the possibility that at least one horse might
well decide he is tired or bored and simply say, "Goodnight," Mr.
Latourelle said. "This is not my night. I'm out of here." </FONT></P>
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