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CURRENT CLASSES:
- Saturday 11 am-noon Pilates
Holly Kerr is a Teaching
Artist for the New York City Ballet in their Workout Arts
Outreach Program in the New York City Public High Schools.
She is a Certified Master Teacher and Teacher Trainer of
the New York City Ballet Workout. She has conducted Teacher
Trainings and Master Classes for the New York City Ballet
Workout in New York, London and Texas. She currently evaluates
and certifies the teachers from around the world who teach
the New York City Ballet Workout.
Ms. Kerr was a Teaching Artist for American Ballet Theatre
in their Arts Outreach programs. She was Choreographer in
Residence for ABT’s “Make a Ballet” Program
at Long Island City High School, where she created a new
ballet for the dance program. She has taught in three American
Ballet Theatre Elementary and Middle School Programs in New
York: “Nutrition and Dance”, “The Port
Washington Project” and “The Ulysses Project” (a
Ballet with Literacy Program).
Ms. Kerr is on the Faculty of Broadway Dance Center, New
York City, where she teaches open classes. She has conducted
classes in the BDC’s “For Teachers Only” Teacher
Training Workshops. She has taught special workshops in the
International Students Visa Program. She recently choreographed
the first ballet for BDC’s Children’s Program
performing company, AIM (Arts in Motion).
Ms. Kerr is a Certified Pilates Teacher (by Power Pilates)
specializing in Pilates and conditioning for dancers. She
is a recognized Pilates instructor by Pilates Method Alliance.
She is certified by the American Council of Exercise as a
Personal Trainer and as a Specialty Workshop Instructor.
She has conducted master classes and seminars for dance and
health club organizations in the USA and Europe. She is certified
as an Active Isolated Stretch Flexibility Technician by Maximum
Performance International.
She has taught ballet at Brant Lake Summer Dance Camp, New
York, where she was on the dance faculty.
Each summer she conducts the Teacher Trainings Workshops
at Lincoln Center for the New York City Public High School
Dance Teachers who participate in the New York City Ballet
Workout High School Program. She certifies the teachers who
take this program for their New York City Board of Education
Arts Credit. She has choreographed dances based on the NYC
Ballet repertory for the program. Ms. Kerr teaches master
classes in such New York City performing arts schools as
Talent Unlimited and Frank Sinatra School of the Arts.
Ms. Kerr is a graduate of the high school ballet program
at the North Carolina School of the Arts. She was trained
in theatre at University of Denver. She was a principal dancer
with Ballet Colorado, with whom she toured and performed
in international opera and dance festivals. She was on the
faculty of Denver Ballet Academy. Her other career highlights
include dancing, singing and acting on Broadway, regional
theatre, and in film and television productions. She was
one of the dancing stars of MGM’s award winning show “Hallelujah,
Hollywood”. She has also toured Europe, the USA and
Canada, appearing on MTV and countless TV shows as one of
the 1980s singing and dancing pop trios, The Flirts.
Ms. Kerr is a member of Screen Actors Guild, Actors Equity
Association and American Federation of Television and Radio
Artists.
For more information on Ms. Kerr, please visit her website.
Class Description
PILATES BASED MAT: This class gives
your entire body a lift, with strong emphasis on abdominal control!
It
uses the resistance of your own body to build strength and flexibility.
Great for injury prevention and muscular maintenance. This class combines
the classic Pilates Mat excercises with both innovative active isolated
and classic stretching technques.
*Certified Pilates Mat Instructor "Power Pilates"
*Certified A.I. Stretch Instructor, M.P.I. International
** Certified by New York City Ballet.
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