2010 SRS USA tour

Hello Andreas and USA members of the group,

 

I have been thinking about the 2010 tour of the USA's east coast. The 2008 tour of the west coast was cancelled for financial reasons. If the Atlanta and Houston venues were any indication, the 2005 tour was not sold out.

 

I have heard concern about the success of the tour because the World Equestrian Games are also in 2010. Many US folks will only be able afford to go to one or the other. The concern is that many would choose to spend their vacation money on travelling to see the WEG rather than to see the SRS. If that happened, the 2010 tour might not be a financial success for the School. If the tour is not successful financially, the fear is that it would be many years before the School would visit us again.

 

Here, it is not like Europe. When the School visits a European country, most of the audience can get to a performance by local public transportation or automobile in a short time. Here, it can take a day of travel by airplane to get to the east coast for a performance. By car, it might take longer even if you are in the same state! For example, the Houston venue in 2005. It takes at least 12 hours to drive across Texas.

 

Has the School considered the apparent competition with the WEG? Does it make a difference? Many people who go to see the School (on tour or in Vienna) are not horse people but just ordinary folk who love beauty and harmony.

 

Is the "competition" between the WEG and the SRS for an audience real?

 

For me, it is "no contest". Jan and I will go to at least one of the east cost cities to see the School in 2010.

 

John

Les Quatre Ecoles d'Art Equestre

Paris - November 2007

Barock Indoor Vienna-Fotos

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

SRS commercial

I totall agree with allof your comments  the video is wonderfull !
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Yours Aye,  Bobby

charming SRS commercial

have y'all seen lovely SRS commercial? it will make you smile!

http://web.wien.info/viennacollection/?lang=en&vid=4

Barock Indoor in Vienna!

old barock indoor in Vienna!

I saw "Drawing Restraint", a Matthew Barney exhibition by Kunsthalle Wien and Serpentine Gallery, London.

I liked it very much!!!

Kunsthalle Wien is lokated in an old barock indoor arena. This arena is as beautyfull as the Winterreitschule (Spanish Riding School). The location is in walking distance to the SRS.  I did some pics, you can see them in "Pictures" (I hope I can upload them ;-))

 

„I FIRST UNDERSTOOD ABSTRACTION, ON A BASIC LEVEL, ON THE FOOTBALL FIELD.”

Matthew Barney

Matthew Barney: DRAWING RESTRAINT is an exhibition by Kunsthalle Wien and Serpentine Gallery, London.

Houdini and the US football star Jim Otto, struggles against the resistance of constructed and natural boundaries of the human body. Like the magician and the competitive sportsman, Barney relies on the physical dynamics continuously oscillating between self-control and energetic impetus. For the artist, who was a sportsman and model himself, the genesis of the artwork is based on overcoming one’s self-imposed boundaries. He uses gymnastics, climbing, and weight-lifting as performative subjects, turns into a fantastic kid satyr, or boards a Japanese whaler as an “occidental guest” to unite with his love – Björk. This location of a mythical parallel world distilled from cultural-historical elements of Japanese Shinto, Western performance-oriented thinking, and industrial aesthetics sees the reinvention of the Moby Dick story culminating in an “erotic communion”, in which the lovers are transformed into whales and enter a state of oceanic being.
With DRAWING RESTRAINT, Matthew Barney, who regards himself as a sculptor, extends the notion of sculpture to include almost every visual medium and combines performance, video, photography, installation, film, and drawing to a fascinating total work of art.

Born in San Francisco in 1967, Matthew Barney is one of the shooting stars of the American art scene and has become internationally acclaimed for his CREMASTER Cycle. He lives and works in New York.

Coming to the SRS and Lipizzans

New the forum, from Snohomish WA.

 

I am coming to the SRS on May 11th for the Sunday performance. This was a last minute arrangement as I am going to Copenhagen  on business for a seminar. It is a challenge to try to go to Vienna around a business trip, when things tend to get confirmed on a relatively short notice, as the SRS and the flights get booked. But after thinking of going to 4 ecoles, but not able to do so, and then with the cancellation of the 2008 West Coast tour, I decided to try to go to Vienna at the first opportunity. I am in

 

This is particularly meaningful at this time, as I am interested in owning a Baroque horse in the relatively near future, and I am now having the opportunity to ride Lipizzans regularly. I am discovering what may be the Lipizzan most appealing characteristic: their temperament! I have yet to meet one Lipizzan that I do not like. I think I am starting to understand what the SRS means by 'Noble Character'. Actually, I think I am getting 'hooked'.

 

I would appreciate any insights/comments about the Lipizzan temperament.

 

Andreas, congratulations for your promotion to chief rider!

 

(I had the privilege of meeting Andreas while auditing the 2006 clinic in Snohomish. I was very lucky to be there on the day when he rode several of the horses! I could not attend in 2007, but I am definitely planning on auditing again this year.)