Cavalia

First of all, the reference to Cirque—which Latourelle helped found but which he left in 1990 to go out on his own—immediately brings to mind seating in the round. But the Cavalia stage is a 160-foot-wide, sandy-floored horizontal stage, about the breadth of an NFL football field, with the audience set on stadium seating in front of it. The tent seats 2,000 people.
An unseen track loops around the back of the stage in a circle, allowing the quarter horses in one act build up to full steam when they race in front of the audience. Did we mention people are doing handstands on them when they do?
There is also more digital imagery than a Cirque show would use, all projected on a giant back screen. The show opens with a scene of a mare birthing a colt, and the screens are used throughout to conjure horses through history and create atmospheric settings.
The show itself is made up of vignettes that display the huge breadth of equestrian acts out there. Riders trained in the Haute Ecole pull off formal little patterns, but there are even lasso acts and cowboy tricks, as well as some dressage, and a freer form of training called "Liberty", where the horses run free onstage without reigns or harnesses.
Latourelle told the Straight it would normally be unheard of to watch all these different forms, which come from such separate worlds, to share a stage. At its height, Cavalia has 19 of its 50-plus horses moving about the stage.
Add to this mix live music and a team of acrobats who do everything from balancing acts to trampoline tricks to bouncing on and off the horses on bungees that hang from the ceiling.
http://www.straight.com/article-378995/vancouver/cavalia-demystified-sneak-peak-how-show-blends-horses-and-acrobatics
http://www.cavalia.net/