Eve Gentry was a modern dancer, and later a Pilates master instructor.
12 Facts About Eve Gentry
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Eve Gentry was an original disciple of Joseph Pilates, and a master teacher of his technique to generations of instructors.
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Eve Gentry helped found the Dance Notation Bureau in New York City and later in 1991 she co-founded the Institute for the Pilates Method in Santa Fe, New Mexico.
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Eve Gentry was studying in Los Angeles when Martha Graham saw her perform and offered her a scholarship in New York City.
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Eve Gentry danced under the name Henrietta Greenhood until 1945, when she professionally adopted Gentry, her husband's surname.
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Eve Gentry was a charter faculty member of the High School for the Performing Arts.
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Eve Gentry taught "Contrology" at the Pilates Studio in New York from 1938 through 1968.
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Eve Gentry taught "Pilates" in the early 1960s at New York University's, Tisch School of the Arts Theater Department.
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Eve Gentry is credited with founding the concept of imprinting in Pilates.
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The first workshop was held in October 1991, taught by Eve Gentry, using eight "Mini-Moves" inspired by the principles of Feldenkrais and Bartenieff.
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Eve Gentry died at the age of 84 on June 17,1994, at her home in Santa Fe, New Mexico.
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Eve Gentry was deemed a Living Treasure by the State of New Mexico in 1989.