Pilates - Cook

photo by by Kristina Pugh

This class is designed for students with varying levels of experience with Pilates. We will start slowly with movement drawn from the work of Irene Dowd and progress into the Pilates repertory, exploring core stability, range of motion in all of the joints and bilateral symmetry to prepare the body for a day of moving.

Robbie Cook is a dancer, choreographer, Pilates and yoga instructor based in Los Angeles teaching in the Dance Departments of Loyola Marymount University and Idyllwild Arts Academy. He completed a 200-hour Yoga certification at Yoga High in NYC and has since taught Yoga in NYC, American Dance Festival, Summer Dance Institute/University of Wisconsin, Dallas and Los Angeles. His Pilates certification was completed in Chicago, subsequently teaching there as well as in NYC, San Francisco, Bennington College in Vermont, Dallas, Los Angeles and as a guest teacher in Minneapolis; Montevideo, Uruguay; Sapporo, Japan; and Cork, Ireland. As a dancer, Robbie has danced with Douglas Dunn, Other Shore (dancing in works by Edward Liang and Stacy Matthew Spence), Liz Lerman Dance Exchange, Margaret Jenkins, Jan Erkert, Keith Thompson and Liz Gerring among others. He has also commissioned two solos from Deborah Hay, participating in her Solo Performance Commissioning Project: Music 2001 & The Runner 2007. Robbie earned an MFA in Dance from Bennington College and has taught dance at CSSSA @ Cal Arts, TCU, Long Island University, and Master Classes at Pepperdine University, Harvard-Westlake School, University of Houston, HSPVA Houston and UCLA. Robbie’s classes draw from his study of Functional Anatomy with Irene Dowd and his continual investigation of the eight limbs of Yoga.