Hilda Nelson: 2 books
François Baucher
The Man and His Method
Language: English
Release Date: September 1, 2013
François Baucher (1796-1863) was the center of one of the most famous controversies in the development of modern equitation. Baucher introduced the one tempi flying changes at the canter, but in nineteenth century France his circus performances and methods of haute école training were attacked. Attempts...
GREAT HORSEWOMEN OF THE 19TH CENTURY IN THE CIRCUS : and an Epilogue on Four Contemporary Écuyeres
Catherine Durand Henriquet, Eloise Schwarz King, Géraldine Katharina Knie, and Katja Schumann Binder
Language: English
Release Date: April 1, 2015
"Circus was quite a serious thing in nineteenth and early twentieth century Europe. Edmond and Jules de Goncourt noted in their Journal "We go to only one theater--the Circus. There we see clowns, tumblers....there is no false exhibition of talent..." Balzac believed that a circus equestrienne was worth...