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Blossom Leilani Crawford

In 1993, Blossom was introduced to Pilates by Kathy Grant during her first year as a dance student at New York University’s (NYU) Tisch School of the Arts. Kathy’s exacting and intuitive approach to Pilates made a lasting impression. After graduating from NYU, Kathy called one day, was brief, and said she needed a demonstrator for a class. After a couple of weeks demonstrating mat class, Kathy quietly motioned and said, “you can just keep coming.” For the next 11 years, Blossom had the honor of being Kathy’s Teaching Assistant.

Her work is always “pure Blossom”, i.e., movements that are her interpretation of “the Pilates Method: moves that have the ‘classical’ bones performed in a ‘contemporary’ way with great intention,” and always infused with flavor from Kathy Grant.

January 26, 2025