pretty horsies

[alonewiththemoon]

Bring on the dancing horses!  (the camera wanders a bit at the start of that last one, but it's worth waiting to see the details of the horse's costuming)

Funny, looking through the comments (I looked at a bunch of videos)--some people seem to have made it their business to go to every Arabic and Indian horse dancing video (and some of the Mexican ones) and make accusations of cruelty.  They don't seem to have hit the Western dressage videos, where the horses snuffle and snort and swish their tails just as much.  I guess if it's in a ring in a fancy costume it's beautiful dressage, if it's in a village plaza or a tent or somebody's backyard it's cruel to make a horse do something against its nature.  Well, at least it's not just belly dancers who get racist and ignorant comments.  (not that I'm defending every third world horse dancing video on YouTube, some of them did not look that great, but some of them clearly showed relaxed horses focused on doing their jobs for their people, not scenes of cruelty)

Comments

[tisana.livejournal.com]

Cool! Y'know, despite being really into horses and going to horse shows when I was younger, I'd never seen anything like that. I saw very little dressage, so maybe that's why, but...dancing horses!