As with every dressage movement, a piaffe is something that horses can do naturally on their own in certain circumstances. While the piaffe is naturally shown through tension, the difficulty lies ...

When you feel that first ‘bounce’ of the initial piaffe, stop and reward your cob and release him forward. Do not practise this too much in one session; rather build it up little and often.

She must learn to make the sounds of a horse prancing in place, a dressage move known as a piaffe. With “Piaffe,” the filmmaker and visual artist Ann Oren, extrapolating from her 2020 short ...