January 8 - May 23
Tuesdays and Thursdays
8:00-9:30am
April 6 - 27
Saturdays
9:00-10:30am
DNA Pilates Room

This Pilates class for professional or aspiring dancers will be offered in six week increments, incorporating weekly circuit sessions, mat and exercise ball regimes designed for dancers, utilizing all equipment and accessories at DNA’s fully equipped Pilates studio.

Only six people maximum per class. To register, contact Mary Burns at info@msburns.com.

Pricing
Six weeks, twice a week for $303
PREPAID before the first class - $273

Six weeks, once a week for $168
PREPAID before the first class - $153

Drop-in rate of $30 per class

Mary S. Burns, Ph.D.: An instructor of movement for over twenty-seven years in colleges & professional dance studios in NYC, Texas & Chicago, including Ballet Chicago, Joffrey Ballet, & Lou Conte/Hubbard Street Dance, Mary now works regularly with NYC’s wellness and dance community regularly in injury prevention/rehabilitation. With the BA from Barnard and MA from Teachers College, both of Columbia University in Dance (with an Economics minor thrown in for her business side!), Mary always has both sides of the brain working - that led her to a Ph.D. in Dance Education from NYU’s School of Education. A perpetual student, Mary is certified in multiple dance techniques, including Simonson dance technique, and teacher certified in Evans/Bartenieff technique. A BASI full apparatus Pilates for Dancers Specialist, with the PMA certification since 2010, Mary has been a Pilates addict herself for over twenty-five years! Mary’s career is dual-fold; assisting dancers and us regular humans in technique improvement to decrease rate of injury; and increase teacher knowledge in anatomy, kinesiology & movement analysis, for safer teaching from the start!

photo by J. Chong