The ABD Team:
Experienced, Qualified Fitness and Pilates Instructors
Artistic Body Development is:
1. A team of seasoned, passionate Pilates-based fitness instructors with a diverse background in exercise and dance. Their experience teaching classical and non-traditional Pilates techniques adds up to more years experience than we’d like to count.
2. A community. We cherish a relaxed but thriving atmosphere in our studio, and we strive to make our classes enjoyable and fun. We embrace diversity. Our students come from a vast range of backgrounds and are of all different ages. We maintain a very casual attitude at our studio; there is no competition, and students can work at their own level of comfort and physical capability. The atmosphere is light and pressure-free, quite a different experience from larger gyms.
1. A team of seasoned, passionate Pilates-based fitness instructors with a diverse background in exercise and dance. Their experience teaching classical and non-traditional Pilates techniques adds up to more years experience than we’d like to count.
2. A community. We cherish a relaxed but thriving atmosphere in our studio, and we strive to make our classes enjoyable and fun. We embrace diversity. Our students come from a vast range of backgrounds and are of all different ages. We maintain a very casual attitude at our studio; there is no competition, and students can work at their own level of comfort and physical capability. The atmosphere is light and pressure-free, quite a different experience from larger gyms.
ANDREA Bains
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Andrea Bains 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 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 training including performances at Ballet Arts Theatre, Colorado Council of the Arts, and Opera Colorado. 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. Andrea has grown the area of the business working with individuals who desire private lessons or require post rehabilitation sessions. |
MICHAEL Dailey
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Michael Dailey established Artistic Body Development in 1986 through the training and encouragement of his ballet master Larry Boyette. Mr. Boyette was a seasoned ballet dancer with both the American Ballet Theatre and the Metropolitan Opera Ballet, and practiced the Pilates Method under the instruction of Joseph Pilates himself. Mike took this 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 Kinesiology, including an adjunct position at Colorado College, and a private instructorship at the University of Colorado, Boulder. |
BECKY Serratoni
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Becky Serratoni is a Denver native, who grew up studying ballet at Ballet Arts Center with Larry Boyette. She started taking Myopatterning classes at a young age to improve her strength and flexibility for ballet. Years later her focus turned 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 her training at Artistic Body Development. |
GIPPER
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Our studio mascot! At 8 weeks old Gipper joined our Artistic Body Development family. As the official greeter, his job is to sniff out “contraband treats” from pockets and bags brought in by the students. Although Gipper is on a perpetual diet, he has taken begging to an art form! |