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About Janice Dulak
Education and Training
AA Golden West College, Huntington Beach, CA
BA Dance SUNY Brockport, graduated Summa Cum Laude
Kinesiology, two quarters study with Madeline Black, UCLA
Modern Dance: Jeff Slayton, Lucas Hoving, Libby Nye
Ballet: Alfredo Corvino, Karen Mullen, Richard Sugarman
Alexander Technique: Jane Kosminsky
Dressage: Jochen Hippenstiel, Barend Heilbron, Alejandro Salazar
Pilates: Romana Kryzanowska
Dancer
Janice’s professional dancing spans over two decades dancing nationally and internationally. Here are some highlights:
Dance Theatre West – LA, CA
Jeff Slayton – LA, CA
Northen Lights Dance Theater – Toronto, Canada
Walter Nicks – Poitiers, France
Douglas Nielsen – NY, NY
Choreographer/dancer – Sitges, Spain
Choreographer/dancer – Biennale Festival, Lyon, France
Lucas Hoving – San Francisco, CA
Ellen Bromberg – San Francisco, CA
Margaret Jenkins – San Francisco, CA
Juried Solo performance for the San Francisco Dance Festival at the War Memorial Theatre
Educator
Janice has taught dance at colleges and universities around the country: Modern Dance, Ballet, Choreography, Improvisation, Performance, Pilates.
Dance Faculty, Golden West College – Huntington Beach, CA
Dance Faculty, SUNY – Brockport, NY
Dance Guest Artist – University of Nevada, Las Vegas
Faculty/Chair of Dance Department – Stephens College, Columbia, MO
Numerous American College Dance Festivals, USA
Dressage Rider/Creator of Pilates for Dressage®/Clinician
Janice is a United States Dressage Federation Bronze Medalist earned on her home bred horse Rubaiyat and has earned two scores toward her Silver medal.
Janice created Pilates for Dressage® to help riders achieve their riding goals. She has taught Pilates for Dressage® Clinics to USDF GMO’s often funded by the Dressage Foundation. Clinics have been held in California, New York, Illinois, Nebraska, Oklahoma, Arizona, New Mexico, Wyoming, Missouri, Florida, Pennsylvania, Virginia and Colorado.
Janice created a Pilates for Dressage® Teacher Training Program in 2011 certifying 7 Pilates Instructors in her method to teach equestrians.
Janice created Ridermanship® in 2017, a six-month online Pilates training course for equestrians that has successfully graduated over 100 participants, including Pilates teachers from around the country.
Janice has presented Pilates for Dressage® at the United States Dressage Federation National Conference in St. Louis.
Author
Janice’s Pilates for Dressage® led to her authoring books and DVD’s:
Pilates for the Dressage Rider, published 2006 by Half Halt Books
Pilates for the Dressage Rider DVD, published 2010 by Trafalgar Square Books
Nine Pilates Essentials, DVD, 2012 published by Trafalgar Square Books
Numerous articles published in Dressage Today, USDF Connections and other equestrian magazines in print or online.
Pilates Master Instructor
Janice began her study with Romana Kryzanowska in 1990 in NYC as part of The Pilates Studio® with Sean Gallagher and Steve Giordano. At that point the path to certification was not clear, but Janice persisted in training with Romana because her belief that the Pilates Method (as it was called then) was life changing. While serving as chair of the dance department of Stephens College in Columbia, MO, Janice opened In Line Studio, a pilates studio and integrated Pilates into the dance major curriculum. She hosted Romana at her studio in 1992 and 1993. In 1993 Romana asked her and Juanita Lopez to take over her and Sari Mejia’s teaching duties at Drago’s Gym in NYC for the summer. When Romana came back, she certified both Janice and Juanita.
Janice continued her study with Romana and in 1999 Janice was asked by Romana to be one of her hand-picked “Teacher of Teachers” along with Lori Coleman Brown, which was publicly announced at the Romana’s Pilates Convention in Chicago in 2000. From 2003 – 2016 she opened and owned The Pilates Center in Champaign, IL. From 2000 until 2024, Janice taught Basic and Intermediate seminars for Gallagher's The Pilates Studio and then the new company, Romana’s Pilates where her title became Level 2 Master Instructor along with other notables: Michael Levy, Roxanne Huang, and Lori Coleman Brown.
Janice presented at Romana’s Pilates Conference’s held in New York, Atlantic City, Las Vegas, Los Angeles (2 conferences), Fort Lauderdale (3 conferences), Orlando and New Orleans, with topics ranging from Pilates for Dancers, Pilates for Athletes, Long, Strong Muscles- Do we know what that means? The Iliopsoas, The Powerhouse, What Romana taught Me, Clientology, and Romana's favorite- Squeeze the Juice Out.....among others.
Her final swan song was presenting the teachers she was mentoring in an advanced reformer at the Romana’s Pilates International Conference celebrating Romana’s 100th birthday.
Janice left Romana’s Pilates International in 2024 to create Dark Horse Pilates.
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