EDUCATION
EDUCATION
Private & Group Instruction
Movement offers instruction through Master Classes, Workshops, Intensives, Private Coaching, and Mentorship. All instruction can be specialized to the student’s individual needs or to the group’s focus. Good technical classical and contemporary instruction and choreography is our passion working with a number of dance and circus genres. Our instruction explores contemporary and classical movement, musicality and basic dance techniques. ARC’s Director, Alicia Cutaia, is also one of four USA-based Certified MUNZ® BARRE (Spine-Advanced-Functional-Empowerment) Coaches, an amazing technique that combines ballet and biomechanics.
Master Classes/ Workshops
Choose between a stand-alone class or multi-day set of classes.
- A stand-alone class where you can choose up to two focuses: basic or specialized technique, artistry, musicality, detailing in aerial, acro, dance, fire.
- A multi-day set of classes where you can choose up to two focuses: basic or specialized technique, artistry, musicality, detailing in aerial, acro, dance, and movement creation.
Intensives
A multi-day set of classes with a possible showcase opportunity at the end. Choose from ballet, contemporary, acro, partnering, movement creation, and circus arts. These intensives can be tailored to the studio’s needs and shift focus each day.
Private Coaching
ARC offers individual or joint coaching for a maximum of 3 students in technique, artistry, musicality, choreography, and detailing in aerial, acro, dance, and fire.
Private & Group Instruction
Movement offers instruction through Master Classes, Workshops, Intensives, Private Coaching, and Mentorship. All instruction can be specialized to the student’s individual needs or to the group’s focus. Good technical classical and contemporary instruction and choreography is our passion working with a number of dance and circus genres. Our instruction explores contemporary and classical movement, musicality and basic dance techniques. ARC’s Director, Alicia Cutaia, is also one of four USA-based Certified MUNZ® BARRE (Spine-Advanced-Functional-Empowerment) Coaches, an amazing technique that combines ballet and biomechanics.
Master Classes/ Workshops
Choose between a stand-alone class or multi-day set of classes.
- A stand-alone class where you can choose up to two focuses: basic or specialized technique, artistry, musicality, detailing in aerial, acro, dance, fire.
- A multi-day set of classes where you can choose up to two focuses: basic or specialized technique, artistry, musicality, detailing in aerial, acro, dance, and movement creation.
Intensives
A multi-day set of classes with a possible showcase opportunity at the end. Choose from ballet, contemporary, acro, partnering, movement creation, and circus arts. These intensives can be tailored to the studio’s needs and shift focus each day.
Private Coaching
ARC offers individual or joint coaching for a maximum of 3 students in technique, artistry, musicality, choreography, and detailing in aerial, acro, dance, and fire.
Director Alicia Cutaia’s Teaching Philosophy
I fell in love with teaching and choreography as a teenager, choreographing my own solos and being the best teacher’s assistant I could be. That love had really grown into a passion during my time in college. At Point Park University I really loved working one-on-one with the Dance Department Chair Susan Stowe, who was also my BFA sponsor. She really taught me how to make well-rounded and healthy exercise’s along with how to teach them clearly and musically so my students can understand with a clear picture of what to do. My love for teaching continues to grow throughout the years as dance styles have changed, as I have become older with an ever-changing body, and to the place we are now, teaching the majority of our classes virtually. I have actually really enjoyed my time teaching online, I feel it has really challenged me to think outside of my own box, having to find new and different ways to teach my students with correct and healthy technique.
My approach to teaching is every dancer/mover is their own, everybody and mind is different. As a young dancer, I was turned in and knocked kneed with very little flexibility. My natural abilities were balance, which helped me become a great turner along with my ear and feel for rhythm and music, giving me an innate sense of musicality. With my body tightness and turned-in structure, I had to work extra hard to find ways to help my body do things that my fellow classmates could easily do. One of my favorite parts about teaching is having a goal of being able to explain movements in multiple ways. Along with the idea that all bodies are different, so are all brains. Everyone learns differently, therefore one explanation might make sense to some and not the others. I like to use weight and release as a tool, having my students find movement through their own body weight incorporating circles and pendulums. I also use imagery and imagination to provoke the body to move in specific ways, I find this is most useful when you are working towards the quality of movement but can also work in other ways. Another thing that is very important to my approach is a healthy technique, a healthy and pain-free moving body comes first. I talk about injury prevention constantly through my classes, no matter what age or level. It is important to understand the good and the bad.
What is essential for me as a teacher is for my students to feel good in their bodies and movement, to feel free and comfortable to ask questions, and to train in a way that their bodies can stay healthy for a long life of movement. It’s also essential that each mover learns what works and doesn’t work with their bodies, we are all built differently and movements can affect each body in different ways. MUNZ Barre technique has really seemed to be one of the most physically accessible classes I have taken, it’s amazing to go through class without pain or the fear that something would either hurt or injure me.
I wish to transmit that dance can be for everyone and is also therapeutic. It’s not just for the mind and the soul but for the body as well. I know that many dancers, previously myself as well, forget that it’s not just about “No Pain, No Gain” it’s about feeling good in your body and the goal to able to move and dance without pain for life.
Director Alicia Cutaia’s Teaching Philosophy
I fell in love with teaching and choreography as a teenager, choreographing my own solos and being the best teacher’s assistant I could be. That love had really grown into a passion during my time in college. At Point Park University I really loved working one-on-one with the Dance Department Chair Susan Stowe, who was also my BFA sponsor. She really taught me how to make well-rounded and healthy exercise’s along with how to teach them clearly and musically so my students can understand with a clear picture of what to do.
My love for teaching continues to grow throughout the years as dance styles have changed, as I have become older with an ever-changing body, and to the place we are now, teaching the majority of our classes virtually. I have actually really enjoyed my time teaching online, I feel it has really challenged me to think outside of my own box, having to find new and different ways to teach my students with correct and healthy technique.
My approach to teaching is every dancer/mover is their own, everybody and mind is different. As a young dancer, I was turned in and knocked kneed with very little flexibility. My natural abilities were balance, which helped me become a great turner along with my ear and feel for rhythm and music, giving me an innate sense of musicality. With my body tightness and turned-in structure, I had to work extra hard to find ways to help my body do things that my fellow classmates could easily do. One of my favorite parts about teaching is having a goal of being able to explain movements in multiple ways. Along with the idea that all bodies are different, so are all brains. Everyone learns differently, therefore one explanation might make sense to some and not the others. I like to use weight and release as a tool, having my students find movement through their own body weight incorporating circles and pendulums. I also use imagery and imagination to provoke the body to move in specific ways, I find this is most useful when you are working towards the quality of movement but can also work in other ways. Another thing that is very important to my approach is a healthy technique, a healthy and pain-free moving body comes first. I talk about injury prevention constantly through my classes, no matter what age or level. It is important to understand the good and the bad.
What is essential for me as a teacher is for my students to feel good in their bodies and movement, to feel free and comfortable to ask questions, and to train in a way that their bodies can stay healthy for a long life of movement. It’s also essential that each mover learns what works and doesn’t work with their bodies, we are all built differently and movements can affect each body in different ways. MUNZ Barre technique has really seemed to be one of the most physically accessible classes I have taken, it’s amazing to go through class without pain or the fear that something would either hurt or injure me.
I wish to transmit that dance can be for everyone and is also therapeutic. It’s not just for the mind and the soul but for the body as well. I know that many dancers, previously myself as well, forget that it’s not just about “No Pain, No Gain” it’s about feeling good in your body and the goal to able to move and dance without pain for life.