Monique Smith-McDowell

PILATES FOR PROFESSIONALS

A one-time accreditation is required for participation in the professional training. The Accreditation allows you to purchase tickets for the professional training. Click here for the conditions of participation.

Pilates for Professionals supports body awareness, strength, mobility and healthy alignment. The practice offers dance practitioners a focused way to train the body, develop greater awareness of movement and sustainably expand their physical practice. Exercises combine precise, controlled movement with breath and concentration and can be adapted to different bodies and experience levels. The class is led by certified BASI® Pilates trainer Monique Smith-McDowell.

Monique Smith-McDowell

 is a British choreographer and performer based in Hamburg, Germany. A graduate of LCDS, she has worked with Richard Alston Dance Company, The Lion King, Michael Turinsky, Regina Rossi, and others. Her choreographic practice brings together dance, theatre, and aesthetics of access, centring marginalised perspectives in relation to sociopolitical issues. Through emotive, story-driven work, she explores and challenges boundaries, barriers, and perceptions, both within and beyond the theatre.

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