Dance Arts Academy

Really disappointed to have encountered this troupe at Christmas in the Park. I have no comments about the children/​dancers. However, the adults (in charge of the performance and friends/​family in the audience) were rude and insensitive to our families and dancers as they were trying to perform. Unfortunate they were not reflecting collegial or holiday spirit.

This place sent a ‘promo’ with my daughter school. Pay for one month next month free. Cool? I thought. Well I paid and singed her up for two classes the dance plus the gymnastics class. To even call it a gymnastics class is really a joke. Theres no bars, no mates, no nothing, not even teaching them how to flip. I mean I watch my daughter for 30 mins just kick her legs? I was so mad. There was small girls ages 3 to 14, in one class together??? The condition of this place is really bad. Dirty, not professional. I never singed any information about her heath insurance or any info that they may need. So it makes me believe that fowl business ownership is in play here with no proper care of children and insuring that if they get hurt they are well taken care of. There was no proper filing or whatever you may need to hold a «dance school». I’m sure they need inspections and need to have all there wavers together. Never will I come back. Nor tell anyone to go.

This was a more frustrating than enjoyable for our family. We signed her up and sent a check. I never heard back. I was going thru my bank account one day and noticed the check was cashed (5 days early). I was shocked the check was cashed and no one had contacted me yet. So I sent a email and the owner claimed she called me and stated class was that evening and gave me a list of thing my child would need. Mind you class time are 5:30. I get off at 5 and wouldn’t have time to hunt down all the right stuff. And the next week we were out of town. So we agreed to have her start date two weeks later and she would get her full 2 months. A month later I get a bill for tuition… I called asking why and she stated she has attendance and my child was present started on the date the check was cashed. I was furious and told her that her records were not accurate and I sent her our entire conversation the month prior. Once that’s resolved she refused to let her perform at the Christmas recital until another months tuition was paid. I had paid all classes assuming textual was included. Not that I have to pay another’s month worth just for 1 recital and 3 classes after the fact… We never returned. After I saw the moves they had these young girls doing. I was disgusted and embarrassed we invited family to watch the performance. Even after paying for more classes I figured it’s not worth the $ 70 to return. Never ever ever again

I’ve had a different experience and my girls like taking ballet. Once a month we can watch the my girls practice. Except that it is distracting for the girls when parents are watching. My girls have a recital and practice viewing has been reduced but I prefer that so my girls can focus. I’ve seen an improvement on my girls after taking the classes. My girls are 4 and 5 years olds so it take patience to teach both of them especially when they are in the same class. I myself don’t mind the dance instructors reminding me to tie the girls hair and dress them for dance practice. I rather be told what I need to do to help my kids be better dancers than to get offended about simple thinks. I saw a previous post about the place being located near auto shops but not sure what they meant. Its located near a miniature golf course with water sleds near a mall. Plus I myself don’t have a problem finding parking. We’ll I would recommend the Dance Arts Academy in San Jose.

Generally, I do searches in hopes of finding positive reviews. The ONLY reason I am pleased, in this case, to do a search and find so many negative reviews is to confirm that WE ARE NOT CRAZY! This place is absolutely horrible. I could not recommend it less. The woman who owns it is rude and so are her employees. My daughter has been spoken to so rudely. We rearranged our summer vacation to Colorado because the instructor gave her such a hard time about us not being there for the recital (we made a year-​long commitment for Dance Team, she said.) It stressed my daughter out so much, we rearranged our trip for it. Who puts a recital at the end of July in the middle of everyone’s summer vacation? Someone who is afraid she will lose her tuition — because her studio sucks. Then she was embarrassed by her teacher again in class when she told her teacher that she wouldn’t be available for pictures. AFTER we already accommodated the recital — are we supposed to take NO FAMILY VACATIONS for these people. Puh-​leese. My daughter came home crying. Last summer, my husband told them we would have to leave for a month because my brother-​in-​law was dying of cancer and we needed to see him, the response was (and I am not exaggerating) «Well, that might be a problem because we already have the dance choreographed.» COMPLETELY INSENSITIVE. Needless to say, my brother in law (my daughter’s uncle whom she lost at the age of 8) passed away on that trip and she sent us a bill for the month. We really tried to make this place work, for my daughter’s sake, because she said she enjoyed her friends there, and wanted to do competition — but after multiple horrible experiences, and absolutely no sign of sensitivity or professionalism — I am DONE. As a teacher, I cannot endorse this place or their interaction with children, esteem, or family support. It has been an AWFUL EXPERIENCE. .. and I have really tried to give them a chance to «have a bad day.» We are pulling out our daughter effective immediately, and I don’t even give a crap about the money she owes us.

So far I’ve had a good experience here my daughter started about a month before the Christmas in the park performance. This is her first dance class and from our parent review week I knew she wasn’t paying attention like she should, so I was pretty worried. However when the performance came my little girl got up on stage and did an awesome job! My husband couldn’t understand why the older girls were in front but it made so much since for the little ones to be in the back that way they had someone in front of them as an example. I’ve read some bad reviews on here, but honestly they are doing a good job so far I’d say 5 stars

What an embarrassment to the dance community, this place is the «spam email» of dance lessons.
It is in a garage used for auto repair, you can’t watch your children, and there is no parking.
If you like the smell and noise of auto repair, don’t mind your child breathing in all of the poisonous fumes, and are thinking of a career in auto repair, then this is dance/​auto garage for you.
Why our public school handed out a flyer for this place is beyond me… sounds like a $$$ kick-​back.

My sisters have been coming here since October, 2011. Because of their policy, parents are not allowed to watch their children. I was able to stop by once for about 10 minutes (they allow parents the first of the month I believe) and it was not what I had imagined. There was a sub, so the main teacher wasn’t there (nothing against the main teacher because my sisters really liked her). My sister is still learning and there was a part of the dance in which she wasn’t getting the move right. Well the little girl next to her decides to yell at her each time! And the sub had the nerve to not do anything about it. It almost seems like they pick favorites there because this little snobby girl has been dancing there ‘all her life’. My sister is a beginner, she’s bound to make mistakes. As a sister, this made me very upset. Working with children all my life, I don’t ever tolerate bullying or talking to someone like their dumb. My mom also paid for a pizza party that was $ 12 and all my sisters got was a tiny slice of pizza. Take your money somewhere else parents. Maybe dancing is not meant for my sisters (will be going to karate), but they need to keep some of those girls in check. $ 55 a month to play the same song over and over, not worth it. My sisters learned simple steps that I could of taught them by popping in a dance instruction movie.

This place is a disgrace! I signed up my 5-​year-​old daughter for a ballet and tap dance class on every Sat. For months, I was not allowed to watch the class’ practice because it’s the center’s policy. Until last Saturday, parents were allowed to sit inside when the class was in session. I was shocked to learn that: 1) my daughter learned nothing except a few basic steps even though she has been there since Jan 2012. 2) the class is a mix of 5 years old, 6 years old, and 12 and 14 years old kids. The younger kids cannot keep up with the older ones and the teacher does nothing to help them. 3) the teacher is not professional, not friendly. She looks like she hates teaching that much. She never smiles at the students and her dress code is awful. She comes to class with snickers (you hope she would at least wear something for a ballet class), a short pant and sweater. 4) the class performance is a mess, no harmony, the younger kids missed most of the steps and their teacher did not bother to correct them.
So I called the center and withdrew my daughter. If you consider signing up your kids for a dance class, take my advice, go somewhere else. This is a run-​down place and a disgrace to arts.

My daughter participated in a beginning ballet class here. It was not very impressive. The teacher was overweight and she did not really provide any technical instruction. It just kind of seemed like the girls pranced around the whole time and there was no real routine that we could have had my daughter practice at home.

Do you want an unprofessional environment in which the teachers play games with the students instead of teaching them how to dance half of the time, and then feel no need to restrain themselves in swearing at their students when they get frustrated with their progress? Then look no further than Dance Arts Academy!
Even worse, despite letters of complaint and multiple calls from different parents complaining about the behavior of the teacher in question, the management reacted by literally doing nothing. No response, no attempt to retain their clients, and NO VISIBLE ACTION AGAINST THE TEACHER.
There’s a reason that this place is in a run-​down little studio behind Golfland. And even if you do decide to give the place a shot (after all, this is a reaction to one teacher and the management’s handling of the situation), then avoid Nicole like the plague. She’s the teacher I’m referring to.

This was the worst experience for myself and my daughter. I can’t believe this place is still in business. All this owner cares about is collecting your money not teaching your kids to dance!!!

I dropped in for a Hip Hop dance class here with Amber (on Friday) and it was awesome! We danced to Womanizer and it was a definite work out! Unfortunately, I haven’t dance in a while so I kind of needed to make sure he was infront of me the whole time so I could follow lol! Anyway, nice little dance studio off Winfield and by the looks of it… they’ve got tons of trophy’s on the walls! WOW!