Markella Kefallonitou

Practitioner Types: Pilates

Profile

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Markella is a BASI Pilates instructor and faculty, a dance specialist and an Onassis Foundation Scholar. She holds a BA degree in Dance Education specialising in ballet, Limon and Release techniques. She continued her training in New York City alongside the Merce Cunningham Dance Company and she was awarded a Certificate of Accomplishment in Cunningham Technique. She continued her education at Trinity Laban Conservatoire of Music and Dance, where she was awarded an MSc in Dance Science by City University, with focus on flexibility training. At the same time she completed her BASI Pilates Comprehensive training and later became faculty for BASI Pilates.

Markella works at the Royal Ballet School in London; she teaches Pilates at the Lower and Upper School and she is a member of the multidisciplinary Healthcare Team. She collaborates with the Royal Ballet School Training and Access team where she teaches Pilates for the Intensive Courses, Video on Demand, as well as Body Awareness and Conditioning for the Affiliate Training and Assessment Programme (ATAP). Markella also teaches Pilates at Central School of Ballet in London. She is part of the Health and Wellbeing Team that supports the students' dance training. She also works with the Widening and Participation team to offer Pilates classes specialised for dancers in the Spring and Summer Courses.

She teaches the BASI Pilates Global Comprehensive and Mat Programmes nationally and internationally. She created and teaches the Advanced Education Certification Course ‘Dance Conditioning with Pilates’ for Pilates instructors who are interested to specialise in teaching dancers. She also teaches her original workshops ‘Foot - our base of support’ and ‘When and How to stretch - the benefits of different stretching techniques’, both appropriate for dancers and the general population.

She offers private Pilates sessions for dancers in person and online.

Dance Style: Classical Ballet, Contemporary

Professional Details

Professional Bodies

• CIMPSA – The Chartered Institute for the Management of Sport and Physical Activity

Contact

Telephone: 07553912954

Email: markellakefallonitou@gmail.com

Website: https://www.markellakefallonitou.com