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In 1929, Joseph Pilates opened ‘The Pilates Studio’, with his companion Clara, at 939 8th Ave, ‘The Van Dyck Building’. It was a massive accomplishment, inspiring Hollywood megastars like Catherine Hepburn and Sir Lawrence Oliver. It also became a “high-class exercising salon” for celebrity ballerinas and dancers, like George Balanchine, Martha Graham, Romana Kryzanowska, and others. In Gallagher’s mat class, the instructor frequently urged participants to roll 1 vertebra at a time in distinctive workouts. But that is hardly the only part of the body being worked in Pilates. Pilates himself taught the identical class at Jacob’s Pillow right after...