Our Team

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 Pilates work in the 1970s through Ron Fletcher’s ContrologyTM 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 Association and from soccer clubs in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil.

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 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. His reputation in both the ballet and exercise communities led 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 numerous others.

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 for ballet. As she got older, 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.

Denise

Denise has a background in ballet training. Her experience includes both teaching ballet and choreographing musicals. She has taught at Colorado Mountain College. She met Andrea and Michael at the Vail Ballet Festival and her interest in Myopatterning™ led her to teaching at Artistic Body Development.

George

George is a competitive marathoner, and ultra-marathoner, who has tried many conventional and alternative approaches to relieve pain and reduce injury. Nothing provided lasting solutions until he began Myopatterning™ in 1995; he now practices twice a week. George works out 3-4 hours daily: running, swimming, weight, Myopatterning™, rowing and biking. He graduated from California State University with a degree in Recreation and Leisure studies.

Kat

Kat is a pilates instructor that has worked for Artistic Body Development for the past 4 years. Kat is a certified personal trainer through ISSA and NASM. Her specialty is working with clients over the age of 50. Kat graduated from the University of Colorado with a double major in Biology and Science. She has been involved in fitness since a very young age, competing in competitive figure skating, track and field, body building, and biathlon-triathlons. Kat believes that there is a type of fitness for every client.

Sara

Sarah grew up studying classical ballet to age 13. She started taking classes at ABD in 1995 and has been teaching classes since 2007. Sarah loves yoga, running, swimming, and climbing 14ers. She is also a full-time RN student.

Wilhelmina

Wilhelmina is a trained dancer with skills primarily in jazz, modern, tap, and ballet. She began Myopatterning™ at the recommendation of other dancers as a way to supplement her dancing classes. After retiring from dancing, Wilhelmina returned to Artistic Body Development to supplement her general health and well-being.

She believes that Myopatterning™ helped her be the best dancer she could be and now helps be the best person physically. Wilhelmina enjoys teaching Myopatterning™ because she knows, from personal experience, the benefits that come from routine classes: strength, flexibility and mental/emotional payback. She considers this truly priceless.

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