Artistic Body Development Staff Bios, Denver, CO | Fitness Studio near me in Denver, CO

Andrea

Andrea studied ballet under the direction of Larry Boyette and George Tomal and danced professionally with both the Wisconsin Ballet and the Milwaukee Ballet companies. She was first introduced to the Pilates work in the 1970s through Ron Fletcher's Contrology of Beverly Hills, CA. Upon returning to her home state of Colorado, she continued her ballet practice with performances at Ballet Arts Theatre, Colorado Council of the Arts, and Mackey Auditorium. Andrea partnered with Mike Dailey in many of these performances, leading to their partnership in ABD, and with Andrea later opening Artistic Body Development South in Centennial CO in 1999.

Her instruction and the success of the company gained international notoriety leading to guest appointments at ballet schools in Paris, Stuttgart, Atlanta, Nevada, Milwaukee, and San Diego. Andrea has also trained athletes in other sports disciplines including those from the United States Figure Skating Assoc. and from soccar clubs in Rio de Janeiro Brazil.

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Vincent

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Becky

Becky is a Denver native, who grew up studying ballet with Ballet Arts Theatre. She started taking Myopatterning classes at a young age to improve her strength and flexibility. As she got older, her focus changed to outdoor adrenaline endurance sports, competing in road and mountain bike races. Becky is also a certified yoga and snowboard instructor. Today she attributes her strong body awareness and absence of injury to all of her training at Artistic Body Development.

Gipper

Gipper is the studio mascot, and actually runs the place!!

Our dear Gipper passed away on June 4 2019. His spirit will be always be present in our studio. RIP our good friend.

Michael

Michael established Artistic Body Development in 1986 through the training and encouragement of his ballet master Larry Boyette. Mr Boyette was a seasoned ballet dancer for both the American Ballet Theatre and the Metropolitan Opera Ballet, and practiced the Pilates Meathod under the instruction of Joseph Pilates himself. Mike took the instruction, and his experience as a dancer with Ballet Arts Theatre, to develop Myopatterning and found Artistic Body Development. Since the creation of the company, Mike has trained numerous students in the study of Pilates and Kinisiology, including an adjunct position at Colorado College, and a private instructorship at the University of Colorado. His reputation in both the ballet and exercise communities let to invitations to instruct at the Vail International Festival of Dance and at ballet companies in Las Vegas, San Francisco, San Diego, Atlanta, Paris, Stuttgart, Rio de Janeiro, among others.