Best Ballroom Dance Instructor South Bend Near Me

Liz Jean: Love the wood floor

Seth Birky: What a fun date night experience. Rachel was awesome. Can't wait to return!

Charles Edward Payne: We are beyond grateful for the incredible customer service that you extended to us. Our Groupon experience was simply amazing! Our gratitude for our instructors patience and professionalism is a poem we wish we could write. Poetry hides in the very fabric her kind instruction is composed of.

Sara Granberg: We are so so fortunate to have the excellent instructors from Chicago driving to Elkhart twice a week to give us the best ballroom dance training around! I highly recommend this studio and ALL of the instructors. They are patient, professional and fun!

Rashella DAmico: Creative Dance N has been an amazing blessing. Our daughter started at a summer camp at the age of 3 and now 3 years later she's still having a blast with weekly classes. The environment is like a family and they do a fantastic job of making the kids feel special.

Sandy Botka: My granddaughter loves going to dance here

Noah “Slovous” Slovinski: Very friendly people and very good with the kids.

Nicole Rudasics: Best dance studio for all ages!

Rachel Davis: Positive:ValueMy daughter has been dancing here for 4 years now and loves it! She loves her teachers and the friends she’s made over the years

Kassandra Zwierzynski: Positive:Communication,Professionalism,Quality,ValueMy daughter has been dancing here for 7 years. We love our dance family! Beyond dancing skills and technique she has gained in strength, flexibility, confidence as well as building life long friendships. All of the students are supportive of one another. I am so thankful for everything this studio has given my daughter!

Dance Kids Toronto: A passionate studio owner committed to passing on the magic of dance to all of her students!

Kristen Hatfield: I just started at Creative Dance N in January and I have had an amazing experience. I have learned so much and gained amazing friends of all ages! I look forward to coming back every week because working with the staff and just being in the environment gives me great joy. I have found a new passion in life and I regret not finding this studio sooner. I'm looking forward to seeing where this passion for dance will lead me next!

William Long: Lori, Lisa, and the gang are amazing. My girls love it and learn so much.

Sylvia Benjamin: Positive:Communication,Professionalism,Quality,ValueSally is an amazing person and a great dance instructor. Jake is amazing too. The studio is clean and bright. They have classes for all ages and can teach at your level of experience. Learn a dance for a wedding, ballroom, many other styles.

Kathy Turco: I had a Great time watching him.

Jacob Kisor: Sally is a gem! When my wife and I were engaged we got dance lessons and Sally made a whole routine for our first dance as husband and wife! She was a strong personality when showing us what to do and was always willing to change something if we didn't feel comfortable. The studio is clean and lovely. If you're looking for group or private lessons, look no further, you've found the right place!

David Martin: I attended the Southold's presentation of The Nutcracker at the New Buffalo performing arts center, 12/7/2019.Performances were at 1:00 and 4:30. We attended the 1 o'clock performance. Many performers were specific to individual performances.The performance featured Tchaikovsky's score with Calin Radulescu choreographing.The presentation was tuned to the South Bend area with the setting being on the Studebaker mansion. They also have a curious habit of renaming Clara. This year she was named Marie, and was played by Hannah Gregor in the 1 o'clock performance. The nutcracker prince was Ben Zusi in both performancesThe travel portion was performed by guests from the different countries coming for a visit and performing.I was in the restroom when they evidently asked people to refrain from taking pictures, so I have some pictures and videos to post.Not speaking just of my own, but don't forget to "like" reviews and photos you like. This helps the reviewer.

Jennifer D.: They offer a great drop-in adult ballet class in the evenings with all levels of dancers.

Michael Zusi: We have five kids, two girls and three boys. All have been trained to dance at Southold. Two are still there, three have graduated high school and moved on (the most recent graduate is a professional dancer). We have been at Southold since 2001 or so and have experienced three different Artistic Directors. These directors have surely been different from one another, but each has been (and in the current case, is) excellent. The care for, development of and attention to the dancers are wonderful. The training is thorough and rigorous, the casting for productions is thoughtful and appropriate (and we have had children both pleased and disappointed in the roles they got to dance). But the casting has always been fairly and painstakingly considered. The student dancers are both encouraged and challenged regularly. As a father, I have been quite pleased with the manner in which my sons have been and are being trained. Each also played basketball, soccer and baseball for years, but when they had to choose, they each chose to dance at Southold. Technical and artistic excellence are the goals that the students are taught to strive for and hard work is recognized, appreciated and awarded.Our association with Southold began 18 years ago when my eldest was 4 years old. We are still there, and happy to be. It's a terrific place.

Nora Zusi: Our family has been at Southold for 16 years. Our 5 children have completed or are completing the entire preprofessional ballet program. Each child on his or her own has chosen to remain in ballet over remaining in other sports. We have been there through 3 sets of artistic directors. Each AD has had a different personal style of running the program. But each has always, to the best of their ability, worked hard to create excellent dancers and an excellent program. It’s never easy for the kids to see, but the teachers love them and want them to learn to the best of their ability. What roles to give students and whom to move up to the next level has always been painstakingly, carefully thought out. For instance,, I appreciated that my younger son did not get lead roles -even though he wanted them - before he was strong and steady enough. I appreciate that the current directors valued the work ethic of my daughter, and recognized both her strengths and weaknesses. The current directors ( and past ones, too) hold the entire student body to be dear to them, and they make decisions that are reasonable. Given that, we have always taught our kids that in ballet you don’t question the artistic director’s decisions. You make the best of them you can. Hard? Yes! But imagine the mess if everyone were allowed to question the AD!! We have not found decisions to be random; they are always based on the AD’s best assessment of the entire program and the total abilities of each student .In the end, being at Southold has been one of the best opportunity for my kids to learn poise ( not just physical!), grace, picking up instructions quickly,how to deal with dashed hopes, physical and personal strength, creativity, challenge,. All of these have been so so valuable in their formation as human beings.Southold, from my long experience there, has always strived to be professional. It is very difficult to produce good dancers and deliver good dancing to the public. Southold does an excellent job of cf this. We are extremely fortunate to have such a good company in our relatively small town!!

Carolynn Hine-Johnson: I've had the wonderful experience of choreographing a classical Spanish dance for the Don Quixote ballet last year and also taught flamenco for a couple of intensives. The dancers are highly trained and very cooperative. Also, the directors and instructors are very nice and a joy to work with.

Tim Widerquist: My daughter danced at Southold for 10 years and hopes to become a professional dancer. Previous artistic director was excellent both in instruction and guidance. Current artistic director is much less supportive. Only a few politically connected students will get advanced instruction. Students are placed in levels seemingly at random (dancers who have been on pointe for 2+ years placed in classes with students who can't dance on pointe). Three years ago Southold was able to produce Nutcracker without hiring professionals to dance lead roles. Since that time no dancers have been trained to dance lead roles and professionals are hired to dance difficult roles. Very sad to see this school fail at its mission.

Monica Sams: My brother and sister both go to this dance school and have had a good experience.

Susan Kay: Southold Dance Theater

Shmigglebargin McGiggens: The only good dance school in the area. It seems that we are the only ones who work. All the other schools I've seen are lame. Southold is the way to go!