movement practices
After class I feel so clearly grounded, centered, strong.
Pilates
I began teaching Pilates professionally in 1988. My group classes and private sessions focus on a whole body approach to movement and anatomical patterning. I integrate the comprehensive Balanced Body Pilates mat, reformer, chair, tower and barrel apparatus trainings, Movement Principles, and weave classical and current Pilates practices with ongoing study in Klein Technique™, Zena Rommett Floor-Barre®, and ballet in a way that invites groundedness and moving with fullness and ease..
Pilates Group Reformer Class
Studio B Pilates
In-studio and Livestream options
Fall classes calandar coming soon
In studio | livestream
Register for group reformer classes here.
If a class is full, consider joining the waitlist.
Please contact me to scheudle private reformer sessions.
I look forward to our work together!
After each reformer and mixed equipment class I feel remarkable and more fully myself.
During my reformer sessions I discover sensations I’ve never felt before - the fullness of connectivity in my deep core, my legs, my feet.
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 can be difficult to capture emotional elements in digital work, and you did this brilliantly.
Though I don’t know everything about the technology layers, I feel so much. Your work is so quietly rich; it speaks to my heart.
background
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 (twice), 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 Univeristy of Wisconsin - Stevens Point. 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 interested in the expression of human interaction - relating through the fineness of gesture, full-body movement, and the possibility of connecting 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