Our curriculum based approach allows students personalized, skill-based, pole and aerial training that builds strength, flexibility, and endurance all while having a great time in every class. What this means is, you will not be in a class with someone doing advanced tricks as a beginner and vice versa. Whether you are a beginner, intermediate or advanced student, our well qualified/certified instructors will guide you through your pole and aerial journey at every step of the way with students that are at YOUR SAME LEVEL. Make new friends as you take a new journey together!
Follow your heart, go with the flow.
We offer a wide variety of pole & aerial fitness education programs for all genders, sizes, and ability levels. Don’t let the name fool you!! The Girl Spot is not just for girls, but for individuals of all walks of life, that want to explore their abilities, creativity, movement, and strength with pole and aerial fitness. It’s both fun and challenging.
Get Fit. Feel Sexy. Have Fun.
Pole
Pole Dancing uses the body’s weight & resistance to create a highly fluid workout. We offer a large variety of courses.
Aerial
Soar, fly, wrap, pose and drop in these classes, including Lyra (aerial hoop), aerial yoga, aerial silks and bungee fitness.
Dance
Our dance & movement classes inspire you to move in new and beautiful ways. This includes chair dancing, floor flows, and even ballroom!
Each instructor brings their own expertise.
Alicia
Alicia has loved dance and movement exploration since she was a child. Alicia studied jazz, lyrical, ballet and contemporary dance throughout her adolescent years and throughout college. Wanting to continue dancing as an adult, she came to The Girl Spot in 2012 for a party and never left! She eventually became a teacher of pole levels 1-4 and completed her ElevatED pole training in 2014. She has competed several times in PSO, winning silver and gold medals. More than competing, Alicia’s greatest love is creating choreography and performing with students. She is also an active student of yoga and barre and incorporates these movement styles into her classes. With a strong technical dance and pole fitness background, Alicia places an emphasis on technique and alignment in all her classes to keep students safe. She believes everyone can learn to enjoy dance by developing their own style through movement exploration and learning to connect moves on and off the pole.
Marisa
From an early age, Marisa has spent most of her free time in the gym, hiking, gardening, and doing Yoga. She has a profound love for the outdoors and all living creatures. As a working mother of two, Marisa longed for a new hobby, just for her, that would challenge her both mentally and physically. In 2018 she discovered the art of pole dance and was enchanted by the beauty, strength and grace of the dancers. Soon after, she signed up for her first pole class at The Girl Spot and has been hooked ever since. Marisa quickly moved up through the levels, fueled by a strong passion for the sport. By the end of 2020 she began taking advanced level classes and training as an instructor. Marisa now teaches a variety of classes and enjoys sharing her passion for Pole Dance/Fitness in the classroom and on the stage. Seeing the joy her students experience when they successfully execute a new skill is one of Marisa's favorites parts about teaching. She hopes to continue empowering her students through a mutual love for dance.
Christine
Christine has been Pole Dancing for over 11 years and has been an instructor for over 8 years, stating that Pole Dancing taught her body awareness and gave her confidence. She has competed in multiple competitions, medaling at PSO Northeast. Christine has performed in many shows and taught Chair Dance at CCSU. She consistently attends workshops with her favorite Pole Dancers including Alethea Austin and Felix Cane. Being drawn to the sexy side of Pole, she loves to find and create shapes with the body and celebrates all sizes encouraging the same confidence that she was able to find.
Gabby
From the moment she could walk (literally!), Gabby has been dancing. Enrolled in ballet, tap, and jazz, along with gymnastics and cheerleading at a very young age, she developed her appreciation and passion for movement early on. Dance has been a constant in her life, and she wouldn’t have it any other way. She discovered The Girl Spot in 2012, and thought to herself “Finally, something I can actually do as an adult!!!!!” She became instantly hooked! It didn’t take long before she had fully immersed herself into the sport of pole and began apprenticing to teach and training to compete. Almost 10 years later, she has many years of teaching under her belt and several gold medals! Gabby wrote an assignment as a child that asked her to describe herself-” My mom says I spend more time upside-down than I do right-side up!” Find Gabby in her famous vacation pose, doing handstands, from the coastline of Kennebunkport, Maine to the shores of Juneau, Alaska (and everywhere in between)!
Adrian
Adrian started pole dancing at The Girl Spot in 2019 and quickly excelled; winning a medal at Pole Sport Organization’s 2021 Northeast Competition. Though Adrian’s pole journey began not too long ago, his experience with dance & movement stems back much further. Inspired by his years of participating in hip-hop, yoga, and musical theater lessons, Adrian continues to broaden his performance approach by attending various dance & acrobatic workshops. He seeks to capture both audiences & participants in the exercise of dance to convey more than meets the eye. He believes, “if you can even imagine the semblance of a sound, then there’s a movement to be felt and story to be told.”
Kat
Katherine is currently the manager of The Girl Spot - you can always catch her on our social media pages! She began studying dance at the age of 4 and has been dancing ever since. Growing up Katherine studied ballet, jazz, modern, pointe, hip hop, tap and African dance. Katherine continued to study dance at Elon University. While at Elon she earned her degree in Elementary Education. Katherine found The Girl Spot in 2013 and has been hooked since day 1. After taking tons of pole and fly gym classes, she combined her love of dancing and education and became an instructor! She has been teaching at The Girl Spot since 2015. She currently holds certifications in both Fly Gym and Zumbini. She loves to teach beginner classes and watch students blossom throughout their pole journey. Her favorite part of teaching is helping students find their confidence and bring some extra joy into their lives through movement.
Kerry
Kerry took her first pole dancing lesson as part of a bachelorette party in 2014. She thought it would be a fun thing to try once, but she was hooked! She found The Girl Spot in 2015 and has been an instructor since 2019. During this time, she has explored pole, lyra, silks, and aerial hammock, and says “This is my favorite way to work out!” Pole dancing has made her feel stronger, more graceful (most of the time!), and much more confident. This confidence has driven her to compete in several pole competitions and one lyra competition. When she’s not dancing, Kerry can be found teaching middle school science. She loves that now as an instructor she can merge two of her passions: teaching and dance!
Lisa
Lisa began studying varying dance disciplines at the age of 3, continuing through college. In early 2016 a coworker introduced her to pole dancing at The Girl Spot and she was immediately hooked. Since then, she has trained with a multitude of professionals to further her pole education and is currently working to obtain her Liquid Motion Level 1 certification. She is a firm believer that exercise should be FUN, and laughter is great for your abs. During the day she works to supply the film and theater industries with products needed for the show to go on and at night you can find her at the studio training and teaching pole from low flow to life upside down, and flips.
Mariah
Mariah is a creative mind in a flexible body, with a love for aerial dance that was born and raised at the Girl Spot. She has been a native of the studio since 2015, but an artist of many persuasions since childhood. After joining TGS, Mariah achieved First Place in two aerial hoop competitions, as well as participating yearly in several other pole and lyra performances. With CIRQFIT Lyra Teacher Training under her belt, Mariah maintains a classroom atmosphere of encouragement and fun. She loves to watch her students grow at all levels, and often can’t help screaming out loud when someone accomplishes a long-awaited trick or a dynamic new movement. Above all, dancing is a joyous expression of self that Mariah eagerly wishes to share with you!
Nicole
Nicole is a multi-level Lyra and Aerial Hammock Instructor. She took dance for a few short years as a child before later taking up Lacrosse in high school. She graduated from the University of New Haven with a B.S. in Criminal Justice. Nicole has been with the studio for many years, training in multiple disciplines, while also cross training in kickboxing. From the minute she looked at the Lyras she fell in love & never quit. This sparked a fire and she has since completed CIRQFIT Lyra Teacher Training in addition to Aerial Yoga Teacher Training. Nicole’s friendly nature is comforting and she’s always eager to learn new skills to pass along to her students.
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Kiara
Kiara Marie has been dancing at The Girl Spot since 2021. Before that she danced competitively for several years as a young girl. Kiara’s dance background includes jazz, modern, point/ballet, salsa, and hip hop. She continued dancing throughout her adolescence and adulthood-performing and choreographing for her high school dance concerts and participating in her college’s dance team at Baruch. In 2021 Kiara found pole was a great way to combine everything she loved: dance, music, and working up a sweat! The Girl Spot became a safe space for Kiara as she began and completed her Physician Assistant schooling at Yale University. She decided that she wanted to devote more of herself to the studio becoming an instructor in the end of 2023. She hopes to inspire other students to reclaim their body + mind and to create solace in an activity that is truly for oneself. She wants everyone to realize their inner strength and beauty and is excited about the opportunity to witness.
