The Virginia Dressage Association will host its 5th annual 'Celebrity Musical Freestyle Dressage Horse Competition' to benefit the Christopher Reeve Paralysis Foundation on June 19, 2004 at the Keswick Hunt Horse Show Grounds in Keswick, VA.The late afternoon and evening performance will feature horses performing dressage movements to music including the beginning levels up to the advanced Grand Prix level. Costumed riders will also perform to music in the ‘Mini- Musical Freestyles’.

A panel of noted celebrities in film, television, and media are invited to join a recognized Dressage judge in the booth during the competition. For some of the panel, this may be the first time they have ever seen a dressage test, other judges are part of the elite in the equestrian community, but not as dressage judges.

Their job, is to join a recognized dressage judge, in the judge's booth where they judge with an artistic score sheet; with one noteable difference: in addition to judging choice of music, choreography, they also have to give a score for Impact ---something not found on either USDF score sheets or FEI score sheets. For the 'Mini Musicals' they score their impression from 1-10 on the rides performed before them.

The final class of the evening, the Grand Prix Musical Freestyle is the Olympic level test as performed in the Olympic Equestrian Games to be held this August in Athens Greece.