This intermediate-level class gives an insight into Linda’s ‘Dance to Pilates’ series of classes, which she has developed with dancers who are in full time vocational dance training. However, the exercises can be used with any client! The class focuses on the front and back lines of the body, taking the traditional exercises that we know and love and adding a slight twist. The class targets the outer to inner ranges of recruitment of the abdominals using the soft ball (overball).
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Thanks to Emma-Jayne Rushby & Julie Herpe
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Linda trained at Bush Davies School a full time vocational dance school from the age of eleven. Whilst studying there she suffered a back injury resulting in her being introduced to Pilates as a way of rehabilitating her back from injury. Upon her recovery, Linda went on to have a successful dance career dancing with Alexander Roy London Ballet Theatre, London City Ballet and Weinner Ballet Theatre. She was also in the original cast for Cameron Macintosh’s Phantom of the Opera Tour. Once retired, Linda went on to retrain as a dance teacher on the Professional Dancers Teaching Diploma at the Royal Academy of Dance and then as a Pilates Teacher with Body Control Pilates. Her teaching career includes; Scottish Ballet Junior Associates, her own dance school EH Dance UK, Managing Director of The Pilates Place (Edinburgh), Gelabert Dance Company, Legat School of Dance and ‘Working Title Productions’, coaching Sam Angell who starred in the title role of ‘Billy Elliott’. Linda is part of the education tutor team for Body Control Pilates, specialising in studio equipment, Pilates for Children, Pilates for Dancers, and the Level 4 Pilates Adaptations course. She has also played an integral part in further course development, regularly presenting workshops, and was commissioned by Body Control Pilates to write the Pilates for Adolescent’s course and co-wrote the Dancers course with her husband Nathan Gardner. Linda was also an examiner for the Royal Academy of Dance for over 14 years, which enabled her to travel and guest teach around the world.

Her current work is at NRG Pilates and the Urdang Academy, which is a vocational dance training programme offering degree and diploma courses.

For more info on Linda, please visit: www.nrgpilates.com and www.bodycontrolpilates.com
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Filming by MK Ceesay (www.zigzagzig.co.uk)
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