movement artist
After class I feel so grounded, centered and strong.
Pilates :: moving in community
I’ve been teaching Pilates professionally since 1988. My group classes and private sessions focus on a deep understanding of functional movement patterning and anatomy. My Balanced Body Pilates training includes mat, and reformer, chair, and tower apparatus. My teaching is also informed by my ongoing study in Klein Technique™, Zena Rommett Floor-Barre®, ballet and qigong practices. I thoroughly enjoy sharing the practice of moving and connecting in our present bodies.
Pilates Group Reformer Classes
Studio B Pilates
In-studio and Livestream options
Fridays, 10:30-11:30am CT
April 26
June, 7, 14, 21, 28
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After each reformer class session I feel remarkable - I feel more fully myself than I have in quite some time.
During my reformer sessions I continue to discover sensations I’ve never felt before, especially connectivity in my deep core, my legs, my feet.
Movement :: projects
My collaborative projects focus on creating interactive movement environments for stage and installation. As a movement artist I’m most interested in the sensitivity of human interaction, relating through gesture and full-body movement, and sensitive connections across time and space. WIth lighting and projection as distinct spatial elements, projects have the subtle capacity to draw the viewer/participant in to a newly distinct world. I’ve shown my work across the United States and in Portugal, Germany, the UK, Egypt, Ireland, Argentina, in Canada as Artist in Residence and faculty at The Banff Centre in Alberta, and most recently as an invited artist at the 2023 Digital Research in Arts and Design conference in Turin, Italy. Each project is fully realized when shared with an audience or interacting participants.
It’s difficult to capture the emotional element in a digital work, and you did this brilliantly.
I don’t know everything about the technology layers, yet I feel so much. Your work is so quietly emotional; it speaks to my heart.
Panels and Awards
My experience developing and designing dance, media, and multidisciplinary curriculums led to national invitations as a Dance On Camera Festival (Lincoln Center, NYC) selection jury member, forum panelist, and workshop presenter.
My artistic and academic leadership led to national invitations from the National Association of Schools of Dance (NASD) to lead their Annual Meeting training sessions for new and seasoned dance administrators.
I’ve been honored to receive the University of Wisconsin System Teaching Scholar, UW System Teaching Fellow, University of Wisconsin-Stevens Point Teaching Excellence Award (twice), the University Teaching Mentor Award, and a Wisconsin Arts Board Choreography Fellowship. I earned dance degrees from The Juilliard School and New York University, and was professor, chair and dance program coordinator at UWSP. In 2021 I received the Wisconsin Dance Council Lifetime Achievement Award for “a life centered on dance as a performer and educator enriching Wisconsin’s Dance Heritage.”
As a movement artist I’m most interested in the fineness of human interaction, relating through gesture and full-body movement, and sensitive connections across time and space.
Photo credits
Pilates, @leahknightcreative | My Father’s Song video stills, Joan Karlen | Signal, John Hartman. | Ringtone, John Morser. | Watching Your Beat, Drew Smalley