This article examines, in its first part, the symbolic aspects of the relation between horses and men, and the mythical figure of the centaur, most often assimilated to virility and male sexual drive, but also to women and their sexuality. In its second and central part, it focuses on Bartabas and Ko Murobushi’s performance, The Centaur and the Animal (2012) while raising ethical issues relating to performing animals. The essay analyzes how this play deconstructs the opposition between masculinity and femininity, as well as between animal and human, among other oppositional pairs such as reason vs. instinct, activity vs. passivity, verticality vs. horizontality or “inclination,” immunity vs. vulnerability, life vs. death, animate vs. inanimate, among others. It posits that Bartabas’s performance opens the possibility of a posthuman and postanimal perspective on the relation between human and nonhuman animals.

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表演半人马和阳刚之气的堕落

本文在第一部分探讨了马与男人之间关系的象征性方面，以及神话中的半人马形象，最常被同化为男子气概和男性性欲，但也被同化为女性及其性欲。在第二部分也是中心部分，它关注 Bartabas 和 Ko Murobushi 的表演，The Centaur and the Animal (2012)，同时提出了与表演动物有关的伦理问题。这篇文章分析了这部戏剧如何解构男性气质与女性气质之间、动物与人类之间的对立，以及其他对立对，例如理性与本能、主动与被动、垂直与水平或“倾向”、免疫与自然。脆弱性，生与死，有生命与无生命，等等。