Académie équestre de Versailles - Centre chorégraphique équestre
Manège de la Grande Écurie du Château - 1 avenue Rockefeller 78000 Versailles
After crossing the majestic courtyard of the Great Stable, you will enter a disarming place of luxurious simplicity. When he was entrusted with part of the Grande Écurie to host a company-school unique in the world, Bartabas, in close collaboration with the services of the Castle and the Historical Monuments, asked Patrick Bouchain with whom he established a long time, relations of complicity and dialogue, for the rehabilitation of the place. The merry-go-round was conceived as a theatre setting, a small wooden casket set in the stone envelope with, in the blink of an eye at the Hall of Mirrors, the chandeliers in Murano glass and the mirrors where horses and riders are reflected to infinity. The simplicity of the materials, the assembly of beams and boards recall the ephemeral constructions of Versailles in the past; this light and mobile architecture is inspired by the Farnese theatre of Parma. Facing the stage with baskets, the blond sand track occupies two thirds of the surface. Th
Tags
Château, hôtel urbain, palais, manoir, Édifice scolaire et éducatif, Lieu de culture, spectacles, sports et loisirs, Monument historique
Access
By car: by motorway A 13, first exit Versailles-Château By RER: Line C, arrival Versailles-Rive-Gauche By train: - From Saint-Lazare or Paris-La-Défense train station, arrival Versailles-Rive-Droite - From Paris-Montparnasse train station, arrival Versailles-Rive-DroiteConstruction sites. By bus: Pont de Sèvres, no. 171, arrival Versailles-Place-d'Armes
Agathe Poupeney / PhotoScene
