1130 North Harvey Avenue Unit 101, Oklahoma City, Oklahoma 73103, United States
Circ Pilates Studio Owner
Carrie Kenneally - Owner/Instructor and Romana’s Pilates International® Instructor Trainer
Carrie Kenneally is the owner and instructor of Circ Pilates Studio located in the Sentinel building in Midtown, Oklahoma City.
Carrie has been teaching Pilates for over twenty-two years and is certified with Romana’s Pilates International®. Since 2012, Carrie has also been a Teacher Trainer for Romana’s Pilates International®.
After a fulfilling career as a professional dancer, Carrie Kenneally turned to the Instructor Training Program created by Romana Kryzanowska. For over seven years, Carrie had the unique opportunity to study and teach under Joseph and Clara Pilates protégé and Romana’s Pilates International® founder, Romana Kryzanowska, her daughter Sari Mejia Santo and her granddaughter Daria Pace. Carrie was fortunate to have trained on the equipment that Joseph Pilates built himself, and some of her first clients were originally trained by Joseph Pilates and his wife, Clara.
Throughout her training and to this day, Carrie brings to her studio and integrates into her work the knowledge of many wonderful teachers who also trained directly under Romana.
Carrie Kenneally’s dance training began in her home state of Minnesota at the Minnesota Dance Theatre Performing Arts Program. She has taught and performed with professional ballet and Broadway companies across the United States and Europe.
Carrie's first practice with Pilates began while studying in Chicago at the advice of her ballet director. After sustaining a dance injury while performing in New York City, Carrie began regular Pilates sessions for recovery. The Pilates work was not only essential to her rehabilitation, it strengthened her dancing for the rest of her career as a performer. This respect for and her enjoyment of the Pilates method inspired her to become a certified Pilates instructor with Romana’s Pilates International®.
From 2009-2015, Carrie also taught Pilates as an adjunct faculty member for the Dance Department at the Juilliard School in New York City.
In 2014, Carrie received her Certificate in Dance Rehabilitation Training from Westside Dance Physical Therapy in New York City.
Before moving to Oklahoma City, Carrie's studio was located in New York City's Columbus Circle area, near Times Square.
Carrie began teaching for the Yvonne Chouteau School and Studio Company during their 2022 Summer Intensive and is also a Pilates instructor for their year-round program.
Dance Training: Minnesota Dance Theatre Performing Arts Program, Cleveland Ballet School, Houston Ballet School Summer Program,
Pacific Northwest Ballet School.
Dance Experience: Carrie performed with Chicago City Ballet Company (director Maria Tallchief, assistant director Paul Mejia), Pennsylvania/Milwaukee Ballet Company (director Robert Weiss, assistant director Richard Tanner), Ballet Chicago Company (director Dan Duell), Pennsylvania Ballet Company (director Christopher D’Amboise).
Musical Theatre: Cats (three companies: Broadway National Tour, European Tour, Hamburg Production) and A Christmas Carol at Madison Square Garden (director Mike Ockrent, choreographer Susan Stroman).
(Dance photo: Carrie Kenneally)