L A Dance Experience

My now-​husband and I were not planning a first dance. But my sister and her husband decided to take dance lessons with Jackie (their instructor for when they took dance lessons for their own wedding some years ago). So my husband and I tagged along on a few dance lessons, liked it and signed up. Then we decided to do a first dance for our wedding. Even though I didn’t feel confident about it, Jackie went over it with us until we both felt good about it.
We just got married on Saturday and couldn’t be happier with how well our dance went and we owe it all to Jackie!

Excellent dance studio. Especially for couples who would like to work on a routine together. On Fridays they have Argentine Tango night (a milonga called Michael’s Bailongo). There is a parking lot but you have to pay to park there. Street parking can sometimes be hard to find.

I enjoyed watching ‘Dancing with the Stars’ in 2006 so my wife gave me a series of dance lessons as a ‘gift’. At the age of 57, I had always had 2 left feet, and had never even considered dancing, other than to ‘shake by booty’ at an occasional wedding or bar mitzvah.
After taking a dance lesson, I couldn’t believe how fun and enjoyable it was! I was soon looking for a dance studio nearer to my home, and discovered LA Dance Experience shortly thereafter. It was a lot of fun, and shortly thereafter I was thrilled when Mireille took me on as a student. A lot has changed in my life since then and ballroom dancing became the best social venue. Mireille was such a beautiful and talented dancer and instructor that she has kept me pursuing this challenging outlet for going on 6 years. Both she and Russel have become a staple, and the studio is a great place to dance.
The only downside of the location, is that parking is limited and relatively costly.

I signed up for ballroom dance with my grandmother. It was mainly to do something together since I’ve been a dancer all my life and have even done competitions when I was younger! Since it was recommended I went for it and my granny agreed. She was so excited and on the first class the director/​instructor Russell made her feel inferior. When I tried to help her he simply said we were not welcome because she didn’t speak English and refused my willingness to translate. I’ve never felt someone’s discrimination towards me and worst feeling in the world watching my grandma’s sad eyes as he told us we were not welcome. Specially been told that by the owner. I will never go back to this place. It is a shame to feel discriminated against in this day and age.

My Fiancée and I came here to get a private lessons for our first dance for our wedding which is in a few days. I feel very confident that we have a great dance together. We really enjoyed Mireille, she was a great instructor and very motivating. We had 3 lessons with her, learned the first ½ of our Rumba in the first lesson, 2^nd ½ of the rumba in the 2^nd lesson, and she fine tuned us in the 3^rd. A few things I loved, we told her what our reception dance floor was like, that the wedding gown had a train that we needed to work around, and she put an excellent routine together for us that took all those things into consideration.
After we fine tuned our dance, we asked her for some times on dancing with our parents for our parents dance and she spent some time showing us a few dance steps that are really easy to do with our parents and I can’t wait to try them out at the reception, 5 days and counting till the big day!

If you are looking for someone to teach you and your very dance-​hesitant fiancé to dance at your wedding (and your parents), look no further – call Caroline at LA Dance Experience.
She is an awesome teacher. She is extremely clear and patient and most of all hilarious. She really lightens the mood and makes it fun for even the most anti-​dance or anti-​wedding dancing type person.
I took 4 lessons with my fiancé and 2 lessons with my parents (for the father-​daughter dance and for them to brush up) and everyone loved Caroline. She keeps the mood fun and light but still manages to stay on task. She is an amazing dancer and teacher.

I searched high and low for a private dance instructor to choregrapher and teach myself and my (now) husband a dance to our first dance song. My husband was very nervous to dance in front of all our guests and actually suggested we take lessons.
Being smart I knew that private lessons were the way to go. Finally comes the day of our first dance lesson and he doesn’t want to go and now really regrets suggesting to get dance lessons to which I reply, «it’s too late now!»
He begrudgingly goes with and take our first lesson with Mirelle, who is FABULOUS by the way… she is so sweet and helps you learn easily, she doesn’t make you feel like an idiot, she’s just wonderful. We leave our first lesson and my husband turns to me and says, «wow, I can’t believe how much fun that was!» We had 5 lessons total which almost didn’t feel like enough but needless to say we had a great first dance and everyone commented on how great we looked.
I highly recommend them, my husband even mentioned he’d take other styles of dance with me in the future, this I never thought I’d hear!

This place is FANTASTIC… I did my homework and went to the other shcools in the area and none of them compare. The way they teach here is hands on, and you never feel like a novice. Everyone is friendly, and Russel, the owner, really knows wht he’sdoing. We also had Sonny teach us the Paso Doble for our wedding, and he did such an amazing job teaching us, breaking steps down… really undertsanding our personalities and how to best make us understand the moves.
Great school, and the prices are very reasonable too. I’m going back for more!!!

After my hellish experience at 3^rd Street Dance (see review), I wasn’t sure if I was up to giving dance lessons a try. After some coaxing from the hubs, I decided to come in. This time I made it clear that we needed a PATIENT instructor. The co-​owner of the studio called me and set up an appointment with Jackie. I LOVED her! My husband and I seriously could not believe we had half our routine down for our dance in half an hour in the very first lesson. Two lessons later, we were feeling comfortable. She also helped us improv in case things don’t go right on our big day. That helped out so much since my dress was a lot longer than I expected.
Anyways, I highly recommend this studio. Everyone is so genuinely nice.

Fun place to go for a variety of dance techniques and parties. I enjoyed the Ballroom Party as well as the Salsa Party. It is a way for me to drive, but can be worth it as a change from trying to dance in limited venues near me.

3 weeks ago I started taking salsa 1 lessons at L. A Dance Experience, I was very nervous to take the class but the instructor Laura is amazing, she makes everyone feel at home. The first half of the class everyone is facing the mirrored wall and learning the steps, the second part of he class is dedicated to practicing those steps with a partner, but don’t worry you don’t need a partner to join the class, because couples switch off and even when there is not an even number of women and men, everyone gets to practice the dance move with a partner. Laura makes learning fun and easy. She always makes sure that everyone understands the move and is doing it correctly.
The price is $ 75 for a 6 week course and $ 65 for returning students. Salsa 1 is on Thursday from 7 – 8. They also have Tango, Ballroom, Swing and Tango lessons and each of the classes has a party once a month. You can park in the parking lot for $ 2.00 or park in the street metered parking for free on Westwood Blvd.