Kay Ottinger has moved through New York as a dancer, performance coordinator and curator since 2010. For the past 3 years she has been living in Colombia working on the project Wilderness along with teaching improvisation and Pilates in Medellín and Bogotá. Living, navigating, teaching and creating in a different language has changed her practice in many ways but a constant has been using forms, like Pilates, to be able to go back and find new meanings and connections depending on where we are in life. Kay aspires to create a place where students can develop strength, confidence and curiosity through finding a self practice and movements that work for them. She loves receiving inspiration and requests from students to incorporate into each class because it helps her offer exercises that are directly related to the students goals and interests. Her classes are detailed and anatomical but move globally and offer different techniques like self massage and stretching to create more awareness and openness in the body for when we start to strengthen and move into harder Pilates movements. Kay received her Pilates certification through the Kane School in 2015, and continued to study under her mentor Eleanor Hullihan and with Clarice Marshall. She was co-founder of 2nd Story Pilates + Yoga in Jackson Heights, Queens and has also taught at Finetune, Julliard, Sarah Lawrence College, New York Pilates, Dynamic Bodies Pilates, and for the American Ballet Theatre summer intensive. Kay has also completed Pre and Postnatal trainings with Dianne Graci, hypermobility with Ashley Mathews and continuing education workshops with Irene Dowd and Stephen Williams.
