wriding

This chapter attempts to deal with the question of the relation between human and horse, and its ethical aspects through artistic research. It takes its starting point from a ride at a dressage arena with its orienting letters and terminology from the dressage training scale in its original German wording. In the text there are five voices, characters, unidentified, that are drifting, intertwining, giving way, and colliding. The text is a choreography that is being performed in the readers mind as she navigates through the different layers of movements, patterns, and instructions, negotiating contradictory understandings of what a ride, a dance, a text, and a choreography can be. The text proposes writingriding as a work that reflects on itself in the search for the in-between, the unison, and the “one” through many.