United States Dressage Federation

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Freestyle Committee

Mission

To promote Freestyle and provide educational opportunities dealing with choreography, music, and judging. To use musical rides to increase exposure and popularize freestyle, quadrille, pas de deux and the sport of dressage.

Goals

1. Design and provide educational programs for freestyle, pas de deux, and quadrille for the general membership and for judge education.
2. Keep freestyle, pas de deux, and quadrille Rules, Guidelines, and Definitions and score sheets up to date and consistent for all three.
3. Coordinate with Judges Committee and with Competition Management and Awards Councils.
4. Maintain a Freestyle web page on the USDF Web site to increase exposure as well as to create promotional activities and educational material for freestyles, pas de deux, and quadrille.

Objectives

1. Track judges who have completed freestyle education.
2. Continue to improve and update freestyle pages on the USDF Web site.
3. Review freestyle, pas de deux and quadrille rules and guidelines.
4. Revise Quadrille Handbook.
5. Refine the format for an Adult Education Series on music and movement applied to the training scale.
6. Submit articles to be printed quarterly in USDF Connection.
7. Coordinate with Jeff Moore regarding additions to the Glossary of Judging Terms.
8. Start a pilot program to include pas de deux and quadrille at regional championships.
9. Work on ideas to promote freestyle, pas de deux and quadrille.

Sub Committee(s) / Council(s)

• Quadrille