História do método Pilates: Eve Gentry

Uma das ex-alunas de Joe Pilates,  Eve Gentry , relembra Joe e Clara, o estúdio original de NYe define o método Pilates como, mais do que um sistema de exercícios, um conceito ou filosofia de vida.

Eve Gentry was a modern dancer who helped found the Dance Notation Bureau in New York City and later established in 1991 with Joan Breibart and Michele Larsson the Institute for the Pilates Method in Santa Fe, New Mexico. She was an original disciple of Joseph Pilates, and a master teacher of his technique to generations of instructors.

Persistent back and knee problems led her to investigate, and later teach, a system of physical conditioning devised by Joseph Pilates. She taught "Contrology" at the Pilates Studio in New York from 1938 through 1968. Gentry also taught "Pilates" in the early 1960s at New York University's, Tisch School of the Arts Theater Department. In 1968 she moved to New Mexico, where she established a Pialtes Studio on Camino de la Luz and, in 1991, an institute devoted to the Pilates method.
In 1979, she was given the "Pioneer of Modern Dance Award" by Bennington College. She was also deemed a Living Treasure by the State of New Mexico. 

She died on June 17, 1994, at her home in Santa Fe. She was 84.

The lady in this video is Eve Gentry:

Extraordinária a forma como Eve Gentry foi reabilitada, após uma mastectomia, por Joseph Pilates:
http://pilates.about.com/b/2012/07/09/dont-worry-we-fix-joseph-pilates.htm 

Eve Gentry ensinando Pilates: