SPANISH RIDING SCHOOL ON TOUR
Prime Time Entertainment AG presents the Germany tour of the Spanish Riding School of Vienna
In spring 2009, the world’s most renowned Lipizzaner horses will be leaving the Spanish Riding School in Vienna and will be heading towards Germany. 30 noble horses and their riders will be demonstrating the incomparable classical art of the High School of Riding during the Germany tour, which will take in Berlin and Düsseldorf. A once-in-a-lifetime opportunity to directly experience the strong bond and harmony between horse and rider. The incomparable precision and choreography, the elegance of the harmonic movements and their apparent effortlessness, as well as the unique harmony between horse and rider, are elements which have managed to bewitch millions of viewers to date. In a unique gala performance, the riders of the Spanish Riding School will present their first-class horsemanship with spectacular perfection. Viewers can look forward to a programme with all imaginable Caprioles: All Steps and Movements of the “Classical School”, a magnificent “Pas de Deux”, the “Work in Hands”, “On the Long Rein” and “Schools above the Ground”, as well as a 20 minute long “School Quadrille”, which is guaranteed to leave viewers lost for words.
The Spanish Riding School of Vienna, which dates back 430 years, is the only riding academy in the world where the Renaissance tradition of classical horsemanship is preserved and cultivated to this day. Classical horsemanship involves studying the natural movements of the horse and enhancing and cultivating the classical art of the High School of Riding through systematic training. The result is an incomparable harmony between the rider and the horse, a form of art which is only achieved at the Spanish Riding School in Vienna. In 1925, Rudolf Graf van der Straten led the first guest performance abroad.
Dating back to the 16th Century, the Lipizzaner is one of the oldest breed of horse in Europe. From the 19th Century onwards, it has taken its name after the village of Lipica in modern day Slovenia, which was where the original royal stud of Spanish horses was founded. Up until the late 18th century they went under the name of “Spanish Karster”, until in 1790 they became known as “Lipizzaner”.
