Melendrez Dance Studios

We took classes for our first dance on our wedding.
He created the choreography based on the song we picked. Each class was a lot of fun. He made the experience very fun. He was very professional and had a lot of sense of humor, which helped us relax. My fiancé had zero dance experience before and we were able to have a beautiful first dance for our wedding. We would definitely recommend him.

I had spoken to the teacher on the phone and he did sound professional at first. I explained what I wanted to learn and we had scheduled a Saturday afternoon class. The morning of the class he cancelled, which can happen I suppose and he said we would reschedule. However, he never contacted me again after that. I also called and left a voicemail, which he never responded. Maybe it’s me, but lately I haven’t found a teacher in this area who knows how to follow up well. Oh well. Their loss of a student who is passionate about dance.

I found Jon Melendrez on The Knot when looking to get dance lessons for my fiancé and I. Fabulous! He is an awesome teacher and we are having so much fun! He is choreographing our wedding dance to our song. We go to the Pompano studio.

Jon Melendrez is a great dance teacher! My fiancé and I are in a difficult situation — we are long distance and he is working right now down in Florida. We had to find a dance instructor who would be able to teach us a wedding dance on the weekend. I called a few of the big-​name studios in the Palm Beach area, and was told by one of them «We don’t have teach on weekend — we work Monday through Friday, like regular people.» Yikes! When I called Jon, he was super friendly and very accommodating with scheduling. We met with him this past Saturday for an intro session and to come up with a plan and, though he typically recommends more, we decided to go with 10 lessons because we aren’t sure how many weekends I’ll be down visiting before the wedding. We immediately got into learning steps and choreographing how we’re going to dance to our song. We scheduled another appointment the next day as well. I thought about the steps over night and had some suggestions for the next day, which Jon changed and we have choreographed maybe 30−40% of the song already, after having only had two lessons!
Jon has made this process very easy. My fiancé and I are not dancers. I have taken a few dance classes, and my fiancé has never taken any classes. We like dancing, but more hopping around informally in our living room. :) Jon made both of us feel very comfortable. He is not snobby or judgmental, and is full of jokes during the lesson, which makes the time fly by. He has thoughtful comments about how to improve our steps, and also video taped our routine so that we can practice it in between our next lesson in a few weeks (when I’ll be down again). He also has worked with us to choreograph steps that we can actually dance. For example, my fiancé was having trouble with a particular box-​step move and so we cut that part down and are doing something else instead, so he doesn’t have stress out about doing it. I really appreciated that Jon didn’t just press him to try to learn it, but suggested something else that my fiancé was comfortable with. I think that even though is scared of dancing in public, he is enjoying this as well, and by the time the wedding rolls around, we’ll look great! :)
I strongly recommend hiring Jon Melendrez to help you learn how to dance!