The video below features former World Argentine Tango champions, Vincent Simone and Flavia Cacace performing The Last Tango, a beautiful example of all eight principles of Pilates in action:

• core strength or centering
• alignment
• breathing
• co-ordination
• relaxation, i.e. only using the muscles needed to execute a movement, allowing the others to relax
• flowing movement
• stamina
• concentration.

See for yourself…

Bonus item… Regular visitors to the website will now that EP HQ is very interested in body art.  This week we came across the photograph below of a famous female musician painted by Swiss surrealist artist (and designer on films such as Alien and Prometheus), H R Giger.

Can you work out who the woman is and who took the photo?  The answers are in the tags listed at the foot of this news item…