Page 148 - enLIGHTenment Magazine - January 2017

Horsing Around

Recently, the Spanish

Riding School in Vienna

had been looking for a

lighting system to more

precisely stage its shows.

T

he Spanish Riding School in Vienna intensive work on part of the Lipizzaner horses
is the only institution in the world and their riders.

that has practiced “classical equita- Recently, the Spanish Riding School in Vienna

tion” in the Renaissance tradition of had been looking for a lighting system to more
the Haute Ecole for more than 450
precisely stage its shows. To that end, the new

years. According to the school, the objective of lighting solution created for the world’s oldest rid-
classical equitation is to study the way the horse ing school employs small radio transmi ers that

naturally moves and to cultivate the highest lev- are a ached to the front and the back of each

els of Haute Ecole elegance through systematic saddle. There are 10 aerials mounted on the wall
training. The result creates extraordinary harmony to receive the transmi ed radio signals and make

between rider and horse.
it possible to accurately locate each horse. The
Lipizzaners are an intelligent and lively breed of positions of the horses are then transmi ed to the

horses that, due to their build and grace, perform lighting system via a network featuring specially

particularly well in the high school dressage at the developed so ware that automatically controls
Spanish Riding School. They were the rst breed the 20 LED moving spotlights installed on the up-

to be stud-bred in Europe, and the Spanish Riding per gallery.
School is primarily dedicated to performing and An essential part of this process is that the so -

preserving classical dressage.
ware needs to calculate the direction in which the

The world-famous Lipizzaner horse shows – the animal will be moving in advance so that the horse
“Ballet of the White Stallions” – take place in the does not have to walk into the dark. The spotlights

baroque Winter Riding School of the Ho urg align automatically, focusing on the horses to en-
and are the result of many years of training and
sure that the animals are not distressed by their

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