Ron Fletcher dies at 90; opened West Coast’s first Pilates studio

Sunday, December 11th, 2011 at 3:47 am

Ron Fletcher learned the exercise system from its creators in New York in the 1940s when he was a Martha Graham dance student. His Beverly Hills studio attracted a who’s who of Hollywood in the 1970s. Ron Fletcher, a former dancer and choreographer who helped popularize the Pilates exercise system when he opened the first West Coast studio in 1972, died Tuesday at his home in Stonewall, Texas …