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Monday Minstrel: Dressage and the Uptown Funk Mashup!

What have dressage and the Uptown Funk mashup got in common?  Hours of hard work, practicing, strengthening, stretching, rehearsing, patience, perseverance all to make it look effortless and easy to the viewers.  Here is the Uptown Funk Mashup with the best of the best of the Hollywood musical dancers in my favourite music video. After that comes the Dressage!

 

Here is the World’s top ranked rider Isabelle Werth with her dance partner De Santo in Central Park dancing to music by David Bowie.

 

HAPPY MONDAY EVERYONE!

  • featured photo credit Horse Canada.*

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26 responses to “Monday Minstrel: Dressage and the Uptown Funk Mashup!”

  1. Gbolabo Adetunji Avatar
    Gbolabo Adetunji

    Beautiful shots! 💞🌼

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  2. doar nicole Avatar
    doar nicole

    It’s the first time I see such a cute show, dance and dressage, it is impressive, and your list… quite thorough, yes. Hard work must be, but beautiful too.

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    1. anne leueen Avatar
      anne leueen

      I think that both the dance and the dressage look so easy and yet there is a lot of work to make it look that way. Thanks for commenting Nicole!

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      1. doar nicole Avatar
        doar nicole

        Yes, and I also think it’s wonderful how those who love doing a certain thing, even more, adore it, how they so enjoy the effort of it all, ups and downs, no longer feeling it as effort as such but somehow basking in it, just as another kind of breathing, a way of life, all the work and obvious repetitiveness. You’re welcome, wishing you a nice weekend! 🙂

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        1. anne leueen Avatar
          anne leueen

          I wish you a very happy weekend as well!

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  3. cigarman501 Avatar
    cigarman501

    Love both vids.

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    1. anne leueen Avatar
      anne leueen

      I’m so glad you enjoyed them!

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  4. NorCal Zen Avatar
    NorCal Zen

    Thank you so much for sharing Isabell’s ride, it gave me goose bumps, literally.

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    1. anne leueen Avatar
      anne leueen

      Isabelle is really something. I have watched her ride for over ten years and she is just amazing.

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      1. NorCal Zen Avatar
        NorCal Zen

        Yes, she is 🙂

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  5. sandyjwhite Avatar
    sandyjwhite

    Pretty amazing moves all the way around…human and equine!

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    1. anne leueen Avatar
      anne leueen

      thank you. I’m glad you enjoyed the “moves”.

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  6. raynotbradbury Avatar
    raynotbradbury

    Never thought about it like a dance…very cool 🙂

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    1. anne leueen Avatar
      anne leueen

      Well I just love the Isabelle ride to the David Bowie music and I love the old time movie dancing so I just thought I’d put them together.

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      1. raynotbradbury Avatar
        raynotbradbury

        It was really awesome share! 👍 I’ve enjoyed it 🙂 always something new about the 🐎 🐴 horses! 😁

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        1. anne leueen Avatar
          anne leueen

          I’m always happy when a non-horsey person gets something from a post so thank you for this feedback!😃🐴

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          1. raynotbradbury Avatar
            raynotbradbury

            Yes haha we non-horsey peeps need guidance 😉✌️

          2. anne leueen Avatar
            anne leueen

            😀

  7. roamingridersite Avatar
    roamingridersite

    That Hollywood mash up is one of my favorite videos. I stumbled across it on FB a year or so ago and have watched it a dozen times.

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    1. anne leueen Avatar
      anne leueen

      Me too! I think it is brilliantly edited to fit the dance moves to the music. I love those old films with the song and dance routines anyway and the mash up is terrific.

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  8. fearlessinjesuschrist Avatar
    fearlessinjesuschrist

    That’s really cool! Do horses respond to music or is it just the rider?

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    1. anne leueen Avatar
      anne leueen

      In terms of the rhythm and timing it is the rider and the music will have been chosen to suit the horse’s natural tempo. But horses can like or dislike certain music. So it is best to play some of the music you want for the freestyle to make sure the horse is not upset by it. Good question Jo Ann!

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      1. fearlessinjesuschrist Avatar
        fearlessinjesuschrist

        So it really is teamwork! 🐴🐴🐴

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        1. anne leueen Avatar
          anne leueen

          Yes!

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    2. shiarrael Avatar
      shiarrael

      Hi!

      I can’t speak for dressage horses, but like Anne said horses can like or dislike music.
      My dad’s old Appaloosa had a thing for classic Bon Jovi (and whatever sounded similar enough) – every time one of his favorites came on the radio, he’d prance around the pasture – with the rhythm of the song!

      My younger daughter’s Icelandic gelding has an inexplicable fondness for Wu-Tang-Clan. Possibly something about the beat tickling his tölt/flying pace senses?

      There’s also some folk music from Iceland that intentionally imitates the four-beat gait – they sometimes play it at the barn and the little Vikings seem to like it.

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      1. fearlessinjesuschrist Avatar
        fearlessinjesuschrist

        Very cool! Thank you for telling me!

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