Okay, some of you great people may see this as old news, but I do not think it can be overplayed. No doubt you have seen Blu Hors Matinee (BHM), 2006 Ridden by Andreas Helgstrand youtu.be/zKQgTiqhPbw Many dressage events have been technically superior, but none have been as artistic. In the full Objectivist sense art is, a selective recreation of reality according to the artists metaphysical value judgments. BHMs performance rather meets that exalted criterion. If you doubt me, just look at The Impressionists... or failing that, Jackson Pollock. It is all formal, until about 1:12, but then a new level is achieved. Then things become amazing. At 2:34 BHM first drops into Lady Marmalade. There is no doubt that BHM loves the music like a totally hot 18 year old, and WANTS to perform to it. Whatever sense of life a horse may have, this performance shows it has that kind of a relationship with the music and its own ability to move to it. The horse becomes the art. (I agree that is not conceptual, so it is not true art but, for a horse it is.) At 4:05 the experienced announcer just gasps. He has no words for this horses performance. Was it the horse, or the rider? I contest that with the training (which is very much the rider) the horse was able to sub-conceptually, emotionally if you like, grasp the relationship between the music and the movements it was taught. It then, sub-conceptually, sought the relationship, enjoyed the relationship, and wanted more as a joyous expression of its own ability. Just look at that horse dance! I have seen professional, human, dancers show much less sense of life, much less recreation of their own reality for the sake of their view of the metaphysics of life. This is not, absolutely not, a horse going through the motions because it was taught to, like some public school student. No, it is joyously prancing to the music, in the sequence it was taught. Lady Marmalade comes up again at 5:05... and BHM does not care about anything else. Look closely. At each step you can see that BHM puts her entire body into her moves. She loves it. Think about when YOU last did that... with your whole body! You put everything into it. You wanted to live life to the fullest. In this we see a horse achieve the same.
Posted on: Sun, 29 Jun 2014 03:40:17 +0000
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