What made dancers take to the Pilates method in the 1980's when Jospeh Pilates was alive and teaching? What makes this styles so significant to dancers/athletes
today?

Pilates came to believe that the "modern" life-style, bad posture, and inefficient breathing lay at the roots of poor health. He ultimately devised a series of exercises and training techniques, and engineered all the equipment, specifications, and tuning required to teach his methods properly.

Explanation:

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