Joseph Pilates

Joseph Hubertus Pilates was born 9 December 1883 in Mönchengladbach, Germany. His father, Heinrich Friedrich Pilates, who was born in Greece, was a metal worker and enthusiastic gymnast, and his German-born mother was a housewife. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Joseph_Pilates#cite_note-Rincke,_Joseph_Pilates-1

Joseph H Pilates

Joseph Hubertus Pilates (9 December 1883 – 9 October 1967) was a German-born physical trainer, writer, and inventor. He is credited with inventing and promoting the Pilates method of physical fitness. He patented a total of 26 apparatuses in his lifetime

Clara Pilates

Clara Pilates, who taught an exercise system popular with leading film stars, dancers and musicians, died yesterday in St. Clare's Hospital. She was 95 years old.

The Pilates method of contrology was founded by her husband, the late Joseph Pilates, who came to the United States in 1926 with his wife, a nurse, from Germany. Together they founded the Joseph H. Pilates Universal Gymnasium.

Romana Kryzanowska

Romana Kryzanowska (June 30, 1923 – August 30, 2013 was an American Pilates instructor who started as a student of Joseph Pilates and his wife Clara at their studio on Eighth Avenue in New York. After the death of Joseph Pilates in 1967, Clara Pilates continued the studio for a few more years, and in 1970 Romana Kryzanowska became the director of what was by that time called "The Pilates Studio."

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Romana Kryzanowska Timeline
https://www.pilatesanytime.com/Pilates-History/622/Romana-Kryzanowska-Timeline

Ron Fletcher

Ron Fletcher (May 29, 1921 – December 6, 2011) was an American Pilates Master Teacher, an author and a Martha Graham dancer. He was also a Broadway stage, network television, cabaret and International Ice Capades choreographer. He is identified as a “Pilates Elder”—a “first-generation teacher” who studied directly under Joseph and Clara Pilates.

Originally referred to Joseph Pilates by fellow dancer for treatment of a chronic knee injury, Fletcher was schooled in the principles of Body Contrology (the name Pilates gave to his fitness and conditioning method) by Joseph and Clara Pilates, with whom he studied in their New York City studio at 939 8th Avenue,[6] on and off from 1948 until one year after Joseph Pilates’ death in 1967.

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Ron Fletcher Timeline
https://www.pilatesanytime.com/Pilates-History/621/Ron-Fletcher-Timeline

Eve Gentry

Eve Gentry (August 21, 1909 – June 17, 1994; née Henrietta Greenhood, and pseudonym Eve Brooks) was a modern dancer, and later a Pilates master instructor. She was an original disciple of Joseph Pilates, and a master teacher of his technique to generations of instructors. She helped found the Dance Notation Bureau in New York City and later in 1991 she co-founded the Institute for the Pilates Method in Santa Fe, New Mexico.

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Kathy Grant Timeline
https://www.pilatesanytime.com/Pilates-History/617/Kathy-Grant-Timeline

Kathy Stanford Grant

Kathy Stanford Grant (1 August 1921–27 May 2010), was a dancer, choreographer and first generation Pilates instructor.

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Eventually in 1954 Grant required surgery on her knee due to an injury. The recovery from that surgery was slow and left her in pain. Dancer Pearl Lang suggested Grant attend Pilates' studio where she met Joseph Pilates and began regaining the use of her leg. Grant was interested in this new technique and in 1967 having studied under Pilates and completed 2,200 hours of training Grant was one of only two people to get a qualification from him to teach his work. The other was Lolita San Miguel.

Grant used this experience and worked with Carola Trier at her Pilates Studio before becoming director of the Pilates Gym at the Henri Bendel Department Store. She went on to join the faculty of NYU Tisch School of the Arts. Grant also travelled extensively across the USA teaching Pilates

Carola Strauss Trier (1913-2000) was a dancer, acrobat, and roller-skating contortionist who worked closely with Joseph Pilates to develop and popularize the Pilates Method. Her papers, which date from 1932 to 2000, document her early life, her career as a performer and as a Pilates instructor.

The collection includes photographs, correspondence, studio records, research files, clippings, files pertaining to a children's book she wrote, performance programs, immigration documents, and artifacts.

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Carola Trier Timeline
https://www.pilatesanytime.com/Pilates-History/624/Carola-Trier-Timeline

“A man is as young as his spinal column.” — Joseph Pilates.

Mary Bowen

In 1959, at 29, Mary Bowen began to learn the Pilates Method. She was in New York City as an actress, comedienne, and musical comedy performer with a recurring back problem.
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She saw an article in a newspaper with a man standing with his bare barrel of a chest, bare legs, swimming trunks and a white mane of hair. Joe was an intriguing sight – a human lion! In the short article he said "I base my method on the baby and the cat!" She had never had a baby or a cat, but she took it upon herself to find Joseph Pilates! That was the beginning of a life "root."

Mary's back improved after only two lessons with Joe. Since walking into Joe and Clara's studio fifty years ago, she has taken one to two lessons every week for all those years. Her New York City Pilates teachers have been: 6 and a half years twice a week with Joe, Clara and Hanna, 7 years with Bob Seed, 7 years at Romana Krysanowska's, 7 years with Kathy Grant, 7 years with Bruce King and Jean Claude West concurrently, and since 1995 with Christine Wright.

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Mary Bowen Timeline
https://www.pilatesanytime.com/Pilates-History/852/Mary-Bowen-Timeline

Lolita San Miguel

Lolita San Miguel (1934– )
While at the Met, in 1958, I suffered a knee injury and was taken to Dr. Henry Jordan at Lenox Hill Hospital. Dr. Jordan was Chief Orthopedic Surgeon and enjoyed treating dancers. He told me I did not need surgery but he recommended I keep the quadriceps strong in order to protect the knee joint and suggested I go to Carola Trier’s Pilates Studio. Carola Trier had been trained by Joseph Pilates. She was an ex-dancer and acrobat and her studio in Manhattan was frequented by dancers and athletes in need of fitness and rehabilitation. Ms. Trier had two assistants working for her Romana Kryzanowska and Kathleen Stanford Grant

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Lolita San Miguel Timeline
https://www.pilatesanytime.com/Pilates-History/823/Lolita-San-Miguel-Timeline

Bruce King

Bruce King was a modern dancer, choreographer, and teacher. He was born in California and studied at the University of California at Berkeley and New York University. He then studied dance under Merce Cunningham, Hanya Holm, and Martha Graham in New York.

His lifelong study of movement began with his early dance training and was extended through years of study of exercise with Joseph Pilates. The writings of Mabel Elsworth Todd and Lulu Sweigard have greatly influenced his work.

Over the years, he taught at Adelphi University and the American Academy of Dramatic Arts, was artist in residence at many colleges and participated in many education projects. King died in 1993 at the age of 67.

Jay Grimes

ay Grimes began his studies with Joe Pilates in the mid-sixties, and after Joe’s death continued with Joe’s wife, Clara, for another 10 years until her death.

Jay began teaching in the original 8th Ave studio in New York and has since taught all over the world. Jay danced professionally, ballet and Broadway for 18 years, and never had an injury. This he attributes entirely to Pilates.

Jay is valued in the Pilates community for his experience, humility and integrity in maintaining the work of Joe Pilates. Over the years Jay’s clients have ranged from stars of Broadway and Hollywood, music and opera, to politicians, businessmen and housewives, and Olympic athletes.

Coffee with Jay -Part 1
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kBApelSsdhY
Coffee with Jay -Part 2
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=L5RfYVuqlN4
Coffee with Jay -Part 3
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=V_P3af_GcSk
Coffee with Jay -Part 4
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IoKgaDKrx_Y

Carola Trier

Carola Strauss Trier (1913-2000) was a dancer, acrobat, and roller-skating contortionist who worked closely with Joseph Pilates to develop and popularize the Pilates Method. Her papers, which date from 1932 to 2000, document her early life, her career as a performer and as a Pilates instructor. The collection includes photographs, correspondence, studio records, research files, clippings, files pertaining to a children's book she wrote, performance programs, immigration documents, and artifacts.

Roberta Peters

Roberta Peters (May 4, 1930 – January 18, 2017) was an American coloratura soprano.

One of the most prominent American singers to achieve lasting fame and success in opera, Peters is noted for her 35-year association with the Metropolitan Opera Company in New York, among the longest such associations between a singer and a company in opera. She was awarded the National Medal of Arts in 1998

“Contrology is designed to give you suppleness, natural grace, and skill that will be unmistakably reflected in the way you walk, in the way you play, and in the way you work.” — Joseph Pilates

Ruth St. Denis

Ruth St. Denis (born Ruth Dennis; January 20, 1879 – July 21, 1968) was an American pioneer of modern dance, introducing eastern ideas into the art and paving the way for other women in dance. She was inspired by the Delsarte advocate Genevieve Stebbins. St. Denis was the co-founder in 1915 of the American Denishawn School of Dancing and Related Arts. She taught notable performers including Martha Graham and Doris Humphrey. In 1938, she founded the pioneering dance program at Adelphi University. She published several articles on spiritual dance and the mysticism of the body.

Ted Shawn

Ted Shawn (born Edwin Myers Shawn; October 21, 1891 – January 9, 1972) was a male pioneer of American modern dance. He created the Denishawn School together with his wife Ruth St. Denis. After their separation he created the all-male company Ted Shawn and His Men Dancers. With his innovative ideas of masculine movement, he was one of the most influential choreographers and dancers of his day. He was also the founder and creator of Jacob's Pillow Dance Festival in Massachusetts, and "was knighted by the King of Denmark for his efforts on behalf of the Royal Danish Ballet."

Tanaquil Le Clercq

Tanaquil Le Clercq (October 2, 1929 – December 31, 2000) was an American ballet dancer, born in Paris, France, who became a principal dancer with the New York City Ballet at the age of nineteen. Her dancing career ended abruptly when she was stricken with polio in Copenhagen during the company's European tour in 1956. Eventually regaining most of the use of her arms and torso, she remained paralyzed from the waist down for the rest of her life.

Maria Tallchief

Maria Tallchief, born Elizabeth Marie Tall Chief, was an American ballerina. She was America's first major prima ballerina and the first Osage Tribe member to hold the rank. Together with choreographer George Balanchine, she is widely considered to have revolutionized American ballet.
Born: January 24, 1925, Fairfax, Oklahoma, United States
Died: April 11, 2013 (age 88 years), Chicago, Illinois, United States
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Maria_Tallchief

The Journey of Maria Tallchief
https://diabloballet.org/2013/03/26/hail-to-the-chief-the-journey-of-maria-tallchief/

Maria Tallchief, a Dazzling Ballerina and Muse for Balanchine, Dies at 88
https://www.nytimes.com/2013/04/13/arts/dance/maria-tallchief-brilliant-ballerina-dies-at-88.html?smid=url-share

https://www.womenshistory.org/education-resources/biographies/maria-tallchief

https://sab.org/scenes/sab-trailblazer-maria-tallchief/

MARIA TALLCHIEF TV Appearances
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yXaaLOiKZ54