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Danica Kalemdaroglu
Danica's approach to teaching Pilates is to truly educate the individual about their body versus simply going through the motions. She completed the Full Comprehensive Certification Program at world-renowned The Pilates Center required over 900 hours of Pilates training. The program required an overseen in-studio apprenticeship in addition to observation and lesson hours.
Danica began her dance teacher apprenticeship(s) when she was only fifteen under the tutelage of Elbert Watson from The Norfolk Academy and the Martinez family from Virginia Beach Ballet Academy. She taught children, summer camps, and outreach programs. Her teaching was formalized through her education and then branched out to Pilates. The result is over 15 years of teaching experience. She has held teaching positions at numerous organizations such as Virginia Commonwealth University, Excel Movement Studios, Carver Center for the Arts and Technology, and Cleo Parker Robinson Dance. For over five years Danica was the director of modern dance and injury prevention for West End Academy of Dance. She still provides injury prevention services for local dance studios in order to harvest young bodies and minds.
Over twenty-five years of dancing has its toll on the body. Danica Kalemdaroglu began using Pilates as part of her undergraduate curriculum. Pain in her knees from torn, frayed, and removed cartilage began in her late teens. Conventional physical therapy was unable to offer any short or long-term relief. She was told numerous times to quit dancing and find a more 'sedentary' career. Through precise Pilates instruction, Danica was taught how to re-balance her musculature and work with the dynamic alignment of her spine. Today, she is still dancing, performing, and choreographing as co-artistic director of local modern dance company RVA Dance Collective.
As part of her dance degree, she had extensive training in anatomy, kinesiology, and physiology to complete all of her programs. Having learned how to apply the governing laws of anatomy to an art form that lends itself to mystifying physical extremes gives a rare depth to Danica's abilities as an instructor. Education courses were also a mandate in order to focus on identifying and then teaching to an individual's learning style through physical movement.
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Danica began her dance teacher apprenticeship(s) when she was only fifteen under the tutelage of Elbert Watson from The Norfolk Academy and the Martinez family from Virginia Beach Ballet Academy. She taught children, summer camps, and outreach programs. Her teaching was formalized through her education and then branched out to Pilates. The result is over 15 years of teaching experience. She has held teaching positions at numerous organizations such as Virginia Commonwealth University, Excel Movement Studios, Carver Center for the Arts and Technology, and Cleo Parker Robinson Dance. For over five years Danica was the director of modern dance and injury prevention for West End Academy of Dance. She still provides injury prevention services for local dance studios in order to harvest young bodies and minds.
Over twenty-five years of dancing has its toll on the body. Danica Kalemdaroglu began using Pilates as part of her undergraduate curriculum. Pain in her knees from torn, frayed, and removed cartilage began in her late teens. Conventional physical therapy was unable to offer any short or long-term relief. She was told numerous times to quit dancing and find a more 'sedentary' career. Through precise Pilates instruction, Danica was taught how to re-balance her musculature and work with the dynamic alignment of her spine. Today, she is still dancing, performing, and choreographing as co-artistic director of local modern dance company RVA Dance Collective.
As part of her dance degree, she had extensive training in anatomy, kinesiology, and physiology to complete all of her programs. Having learned how to apply the governing laws of anatomy to an art form that lends itself to mystifying physical extremes gives a rare depth to Danica's abilities as an instructor. Education courses were also a mandate in order to focus on identifying and then teaching to an individual's learning style through physical movement.
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