Lana’s Dance Center

Lana’s Dance Centre is a very family oriented studio. The owner and staff take the time to get to know the children that attend their classes. Every one is very supportive including the upper level dancers. My daughters have been attending classes here for about 3 or 4 years. Each year the recitals get better and better. This center has 2 locations making it easier to get the classes and times you want. Prices seem comparable to other local studios. In regard to Marcia M’s post, the recital tickets are usually $ 10 each and monthly fees can be paid with cash or check. They give you around a two week grace period to pay fees and you can mail it in if you have to.

I signed my child up for the ballet/​tumbling at the Tiny Town location. My child’s dance teacher was very friendly and my daughter enjoyed attending her class. The problem with the Tiny Town location was that the woman at the front desk wasn’t always helpful. Of course Lana’s dance center does NOT accept on-​line or credit card payments so I was inconvinienced by having to take cash out of the ATM each month to pay. On multiple occassions, I’d go to the ATM, take cash out and try to run in to the Tiny Town location to pay my monthly fee. What should take less than 10 minutes, almost ALWAYS turned out to be a lot longer since the woman at the front desk would be outfitting a child with multiple pairs of dancing shoes as I would stand there and wait for a minimum of 30 minutes, what took so long you ask? The fact that the woman would NOT stop talking! She would yap yap yap about personal things and it seemed to slow her down. When I disenrolled my child due to my move out of state, I had to submit a 30 day written notice (which is in their contract). I submitted my written notice mid-​November. I assumed since it would have been 30 days in mid-​December (and that was about the time we were moving) that I would only have to pay a pro-​rated amount… WRONG! I was forced to pay for the full month of December even though I submitted my 30 day written notice well in advance. The woman at the front desk informed me that since my child would be attending one class in December, I’d still have to pay the full amount. I had a horrible experience with them. The December recital was a joke. I believe I paid about $ 20 to $ 30 per ticket just to attend the recital. I got to see my child perform on stage for less than 5 minutes and the rest of the 2 ½ to 3 hour show was other kids (mainly the front desk woman’s daughter). I was not allowed to take my child after her portion in the recital and so I was forced to stay there and watch the rest of the show.