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Past Events
| Date | Organizer | Event | |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2026-10-08 | Womens Education Project | Garba Season for Beginners Series in Newyork | View More |
| 2026-10-01 | Womens Education Project | Garba Season for Beginners Series in Newyork | View More |
| 2026-09-22 | Womens Education Project | Garba Season for Beginners Series in Newyork | View More |
| 2026-09-10 | Womens Education Project | Garba Season for Beginners Series in Newyork | View More |
About this Venue
Patricia Ripley was the manager. She was a NYC fitness teacher and former manager of The Lotte Berk Method, on the upper East Side of Manhattan starting in 1971 and the Creative Energy Studios on the upper West Side until 1984. She and her business partner split up and in 1984 she was looking for a new space. She met a contractor on West 72nd Street renovating the 131 building. He was looking for a manager for rehearsal studios. “What are rehearsal studios?” she asked, (Duh!) An arrangement was made: she got her own teaching studio and became the manager of the West Side Rehearsal Studios. Originally from the Jersey Shore, she had attended Monmouth College in Long Branch (now Monmouth University). She was a bartender at the iconic ‘Student Prince' club in Asbury Park, a mainstay venue in the hot music scene there in the late 60’s, early 70s. She and her partner, Ike, managed the famous Asbury Park nightclub “Pandemonium”. One night while at the “Upstage Club '' a quasi-private after hours club in Asbury for musicians, waitresses, bartenders and club owners, she introduced a west coast music manager, Tinker West, to Bruce Springsteen. He became Bruce’s first manager and she worked as his assistant. She co-produced Bruce’s first concert with his band “Child” at the Pandemonium. They opened for the James Cotton Blues Band. In the summer of 1969 she and Ike, along with a local musician, Donny Lubitz and his girlfriend, Diana drove a VW van to Woodstock for three days of “Peace, Music (and Mayhem)” In 1971, She and Ike moved into Manhattan where he worked as an assistant manager at ‘Arthur’ an east side night club. In 1972 she trained and became an instructor at the Lotte Berk Method, a popular celebrity fitness studio on the Upper East Side. She taught there for 7 years, managing the Manhattan & Bridgehampton studios. After suffering “ burnout”, she left NYC and moved to Florida,(but kept her apartment). It was hot and boring. She moved back to Manhattan and taught at Lotte Berk for 1 more year. In 1982 she moved to the West Side and opened the Creative Energy Studios on West 72nd St.
Location
305 W 38th St, New York, NY
Ripley-Grier Studios Touring history
Last concert
- 1 month's ago
Concerts played in last four years
- 4 concerts
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