Comments on: Pilates a Major Benefit for Cirque Performers! http://www.yespilates.com/2009/06/22/pilates-a-major-benefit-for-cirque-performers/ #1 Trusted Resource for the Pilates Community Fri, 10 Sep 2010 05:59:30 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.7.1 hourly 1 By: Siri Dharma Galliano http://www.yespilates.com/2009/06/22/pilates-a-major-benefit-for-cirque-performers/comment-page-1/#comment-187 Siri Dharma Galliano Mon, 22 Jun 2009 22:47:24 +0000 http://www.yespilates.com/?p=1592#comment-187 Great Great article. I got to train the show "O" and LA REVE" in Las Vegas. IT was challenging to give the group<br>a mat class because I had people from Mongolia,Russia,Poland,Argentina,Canada, etc and language was a problem.<br>They are required to be at work three hours before the performance and they use yoga or dance or Pilates as a<br>required warm-up and would come to class with their shoulders packed in ice and say, "Oh, I'll just work through it."<br><br>One gorgeous swimmer in the show"O", after I gave the 18 side-leg series said,"You know, this is nothing for<br>a syncronized swimmer." Fortunately, the Teasers came next!!!!!!<br><br>I love the Cirque and have seen thirteen of their shows, some like Mystere or Varakei, eight times, as my partner,<br>who is retired from the Great Moscow circus and now is in Russia training 100 teachers with Jay Grimes, has become a Pilates teacher and knows all the Russians in every show.<br><br>I always thought they would make great Pilates teachers because of their background in acrobatics and <br>gymnastics, what Joe Pilates based his work on, not yoga or ballet. Some we have trained to become<br>Pilates teachers, some, whose contract have expired, are coming to Big Bear to perform for us.<br><br>Siri Dharma Galliano Great Great article. I got to train the show “O” and LA REVE” in Las Vegas. IT was challenging to give the group
a mat class because I had people from Mongolia,Russia,Poland,Argentina,Canada, etc and language was a problem.
They are required to be at work three hours before the performance and they use yoga or dance or Pilates as a
required warm-up and would come to class with their shoulders packed in ice and say, “Oh, I'll just work through it.”

One gorgeous swimmer in the show”O”, after I gave the 18 side-leg series said,”You know, this is nothing for
a syncronized swimmer.” Fortunately, the Teasers came next!!!!!!

I love the Cirque and have seen thirteen of their shows, some like Mystere or Varakei, eight times, as my partner,
who is retired from the Great Moscow circus and now is in Russia training 100 teachers with Jay Grimes, has become a Pilates teacher and knows all the Russians in every show.

I always thought they would make great Pilates teachers because of their background in acrobatics and
gymnastics, what Joe Pilates based his work on, not yoga or ballet. Some we have trained to become
Pilates teachers, some, whose contract have expired, are coming to Big Bear to perform for us.

Siri Dharma Galliano

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