Paris (AFP)
No white rabbit, no cat but donkeys and horses: "Alice and the enchanted carousel", the living museum of the Cheval de Chantilly (Oise) celebrates Christmas with an equestrian tale presented from Saturday and until January 5th in the tricentennial walls Great Stables.
"In this tale, there are winks to Lewis Carroll's Alice in Wonderland" but her Alice "is not awakened by a rabbit but a donkey," confides AFP Virginie Bienaimé, the woman on stage. "She's going to follow him and he'll take her to a carnival where she's going to meet the crazy hatter and then it's a different story," she adds.
Alice will live incredible adventures related by the riders and comedians of the museum on the track of the dome of the stables. This tale, "it's equestrian theater", claims Virginie Bienaimé, "the riders as the two acrobats on horseback are also actors".
In this story, Alice wakes up and meets childish characters, no less famous than she like Snow White, Rapunzel, Cinderella or the Little Mermaid, become riders on their wooden horses.
Virginie Bienaimé also wanted to "showcase" the museum horses, Percherons, Portuguese and Spanish horses.
During the different scenes, the horses dance on high school exercises: not Spanish, passage and piaffer, they rear up or lie down freely.
The Christmas show 2018, "The dream of a winter night", had been seen by nearly 25,000 people.
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