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| Its Creation In 1987 some passionate riders decided to venture to create what seemed quite Utopian at that time in Belgium : an Academy purporting to promote and show an Art of Riding issued from a long-standing European tradition. The Academy tied in with the rules and traditions created as soon as the 16th century by the academies of the Italian renaissance, further refined during the classistic period in the various European Courts and climaxing in France during the 18th century with the School of Versailles and the famous rider La Guérinière. |
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Famous institutions such as the Spanish School of Vienna, the Royal Andalusian School, the Cadre Noir of Saumur and the Portuguese Riding School are considered by the Academy as its models. These four prestigious European Academies have accepted to patron the Academy and accept it as a member "International Association of the Art of Riding". |
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| Its Objectives |
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The Belgian Academy pursues the same goals as its famous predecessors : the systematic search for Beauty and the development of the brio of the horse in its natural gaits through precise and discrete aids, in lightness and without any moral or physical constraints. The purity of the horse's movements is further emphasised by styling the natural gaits through a search for optimal equilibrium in a maximal rassembly and with precise and discrete aids. |
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Académie
Belge d'Equitation - Belgische Academie voor Rijkunst
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