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Lipizzaner horses, a breed since 1580, and the Spanish Riding School, founded in 1735, remain living Austrian treasures, though both are nearly lost during WWII.During the German occupation, Colonel Alois Podhajsky, who performed in dressage events in the 1936 Olympics and is the Riding School’s Director, becomes attached to the German Army.
The 1940 film Florian stars two Lipizzan stallions. It was based on a 1934 novel by Felix Salten. The wife of the film's producer owned the only Lipizzans in the US at the time the movie was made. [52] The rescue during World War II of the Lipizzan stallions is depicted in the 1963 Walt Disney movie Miracle of the White Stallions. The movie was ...
Members of the South African Lipizzaners working with a stallion performing the Pesade. The South African Lipizzaners is a riding academy that operates according to the classical model just outside of Paarl, in the Western Cape province of South Africa. In contrast to other classical riding schools, only women ride and train the 40 Lipizzan ...
The Spanish Riding School (German: Spanische Hofreitschule) is an Austrian institution based in Vienna, dedicated to the preservation of classical dressage and the training of Lipizzaner horses, whose performances in the Hofburg are also a tourist attraction. The leading horses and riders of the school also periodically tour and perform worldwide.
Horses such as the Andalusian, Lusitano, Lipizzan and Menorquín are the breeds most often trained to perform the airs today, in part due to their powerfully conformed hindquarters, which allow them the strength to perform these difficult movements. There were originally seven airs, many of which were used to build into the movements performed ...
A movie that centres on people attending an artistic/sexual salon was a likely contender to feature unsimulated sex and Shortbus does, but director John Cameron Mitchell had a reason for including it.
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