The Dance Department

★★★★★Heather Robilotti

Our experience at the dance department has been amazing! From the owner to the instructors, they all are so kind and compassionate! It truly is a family! We highly recommend the dance department!

★★Steven Minher

Go literally anywhere else. On the surface it seems nice enough, but has lots of problems. There are major attitude, behavior, and clique problems. It's been so bad the last year that as of this summer 4 different competition team dancers have left the studio in the last 12 months. Communication is severely lacking. Parents rarely hear anything and when they do emails are vague and often unclear. Additionally, lots of things are driven by text message to students the day-before or last-minute, including schedule changes for things that should have been planned and communicated farther in advance. This studio is mostly focused on dance competitions, not technique (regardless of what they claim). I frequently heard from my kid "all we did was the same choreography today". Maybe once a month I'd hear "oh my god we actually did technique today". Classes frequently start late as prior classes run over. Students often show up late leading to delays. Classes waste an inordinate amount of time discussing social media, gossip, or because a teacher has a friend visiting and distracting them. I get frustrated when I pick up my daughter and commonly hear "we stood around for half the class because of STUPID-REASON". Not welcoming. There's no waiting room or opportunity to really meet the teachers. I didn't even know what they looked like for the first year we were there. I've attended all my daughter's dance competitions for multiple YEARS and have yet to have the Studio Owner or a single teacher stop and introduce themselves. NOT ONCE. I know that dance comps aren't meet-and-greets, but basic manners aren't that hard. All it takes is a single sentence such as "oh hi, are you KID'S parents? Nice to meet you, I'm NAME and I teach DANCE_STYLE". Their Competition Team is ok, but it's made so much harder than it needs to be and is plagued by cliques. There's a clique of younger kids and one of older kids. If you're not in either one you might as well forget it. Kids are intentionally excluded from things over and over. Bad behavior occurs in front of teachers on multiple occasions and they ignore it. My kid repeatedly told me about something rude another student did or said that was directly heard or observed by a teacher and then ignored. There is also a BAFFLING lack of communication with out-of-town competitions, unless you're in one of the cliques of course. Comp after comp certain kids would get excluded from team gatherings or activities. We'd see pictures or hear conversations that these things were involving much or most of the comp team, except for the kids that weren't in the 2 cliques. After one of the dance comps this year we saw the studio post a photo to social media that showed most of the comp team (minis, juniors, seniors) in a hotel lobby posing for a photo together. Apparently they were staying in the same hotel together (gee, thanks for not telling the whole comp team) or at the very least all decided to get together there to hang out and/or take a group picture. It should not be a surprise the SAME kids as usual were excluded and had no idea this was happening. It's pathetic that not a single child or adult there had the common decency or empathy to ask who might be missing and think to text them (they all have each other's cell numbers). This particular occurrence just mentally crushed my daughter as it was one of a dozen similar experiences that just reinforced they don't want her there. Just to reinforce that we're not being paranoid another example. At the next out of town comp we picked a hotel that was quite a ways up the highway from the recommended hotels for that comp and even across the state line. The next morning we were there we saw multiple members of the studio in the lobby including one who seemed surprised we were staying there, but not surprised at all the other comp team members there. Year after year we wondered how strange it was that the majority of the comp team ended up at the same hotels for out-of-town comps except for the same few kids. It's not paranoia when it's true.

★★★★★Ryan Kent

One of the best dance studios in the area. The owner Connie is the nicest person in the world, Ms. Lauren has 30 years of dance experience and Ms. Lindsey has been dancing forever as well. If you are looking to get your child into dance, this is the school. The price is right on par with the other dance schools in the area but the experience far exceeds the competition

★★★★★Keilla Damis

I'm going to join the dancestors department yay I cannot wait and going to be Doing hip-hop with Emma! I hope Emma ps if you didn't know it's Emma Destefano so I hope Emma reads this Emma is my friend she goesto the same school as me okte! LOL LOVE KEILLA XOXOYA!

★★★★★Jordan Rakoske

One of the Best Dance studios in Clifton Park. Mrs Lauren is great!