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Exclusive PREVIEW PARTY and Summer Spotlight Performance!
An elegant gathering followed by a first look at our live performance program...

Summer Performance Schedule 2022!

Two unique ways to experience the Tempel Lipizzans this summer...
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The Summer Spotlight Performance

The Union of Power and Grace 
Like a finely tuned dancers, the most highly trained and athletic horse can create a picture of elegance through movement. Witness the beauty of classical horsemanship at its finest in this lovely 5 segment program.  Modelled after performance art from the great classical riding schools of Europe, each segment is careful choreographed and set to music showcasing stallions and their riders at the peak of their training. 

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How a Lipizzan Stallion
​Learns to Dance
​

​Designed for all ages that want to know more…
Our equine dancers may be born with the genetic material to perform their graceful moves, but it takes the intersection of a thoughtful rider and a willing horse to create the great expression of harmony through movement for which the Lipizzan horse is known.
This program follows the beginner, the intermediate and the advanced horse in the their training. Learn what to look for in horse movement and body that shows their level of training. 

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The Tempel Lipizzans

History, Art, Music in Motion

The mission of the Tempel Lipizzans is today as it has been since 1958; to promote classical dressage and the Lipizzan breed in the United States through a careful breeding and training program. Our on site public exhibitions and behind-the-scenes tours serve to educate on the history of this classical art through the beauty of synchronized movements, the harmony of partnership between horse and rider and the impressive athleticism and training of the airs above the ground, or haute école movements. The Lipizzan breed is now considered an endangered domestic animal with numbers of less than 12,000 worldwide. 

Located in Old Mill Creek, IL on the property of Tempel Farms, Tempel Lipizzans is a full time dressage training facility in which experienced trainers adhere to the standards of training established hundreds of years ago in the classical schools of Europe. As of 2015, the Spanish Riding School in Vienna Austria, after which our American program was modeled, has 450 years of elevating classical equitation and has been added to the list of UNESCO's "intangible cultural heritage of humanity." The foundation of the Tempel Lipizzans breeding program was directly from Piber, the stud farm of the Spanish Riding School. 

​In 1993, owners Linda Smith Buonanno and Martha Smith Simpson, received the Officer's Cross, Grand Decoration of Honor for Service to the Republic of Austria, for their "careful management of a cultural institution with such close ties to Austria".

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  • Homepage
  • Gift Certificates
  • Performances
    • Groups
    • Plan Your Visit >
      • First Time Visitor/ FAQ's
      • Performance Amenities
  • Clinics
  • Tours
  • Private Events
  • Breeding/Sales
    • Sale Horses
    • Stallions At Stud >
      • Maestoso Batrina
      • Favory Naussica >
        • Nausica's Offspring
  • About Us
    • Boarding
    • The History of the Lipizzan
    • The History of Tempel Farms
    • Dressage
    • Training Staff
    • Job Openings
    • Working Student Program >
      • Meet Our Equine Stars
    • News
    • Sponsors
    • Tempel Farms >
      • Contact