Pick School Of Ballroom Dancing

My wife and I took dance lessons from Dian and we couldn’t be happier with the choreography and the enthusiasm that she taught us with.
We also are terrible and dancing and she was extremely patient with us and help along the way.
Wedding dance went great and we plan to head back just to learn more dance we had so much fun.

We had our first few class lessons with Rose and she was wonderful! We then had our private lessons for our weddings first dance with Rose. She is very nice and a superb dance teacher! Thank you Rose! I feel very confident that I can dance my first dance well.

A group of friends and I have been taking private lessons now for a few months. Wouldn’t have been the 1^st, 2^nd, 3^rd or 4^th thing I would have chosen to have done with my Thursday nights, but I now really look forward to going! It’s a heck of a lot of fun! Our instructor is encouraging, amazingly patient, and really passionate about what she’s doing. I can’t recommend this place enough!

I’ve been taking salsa classes with Wes for about a year and a half now, and I’m still learning something new every week. In the beginning class, he does a great job of including tips on proper technique for both the leaders and the followers while teaching still new steps. The choreography includes enough variation to keep everyone interested but is not so difficult that first time dancers can’t jump right in and learn the steps.
The intermediate class is catered to the students’ level and interest. Wes teaches intricate steps and patterns and breaks them down in such a way that they seem much easier than they look. At the beginning of class when he demonstrates the pattern you think you’ll never be able to do it, but by the end of class you find that you’ve not only got the steps but it starts to feel natural.
Wes’ teaching style is relaxed and entertaining and he keeps the students comfortable and laughing throughout the class. If you love salsa or if you’ve never danced before but want to give it a try, this is a good place to go.

My fiancé and I went to Ylva at Pick Dance for our first dance at our wedding. Ylva was great! We are not exactly great dancers, but she was patient and on top of everything, and was very good at explaining things in a way that made sense to us amateurs. I highly recommend lessons with her.

We worked with Erin to get our first dance for our wedding just right. Over three incredibly inexpensive private lessons, Erin taught us some basic swing and foxtrot moves, but more importantly, choreographed a wonderful dance for us!
I’m a terrible dancer and it generally fills me with anxiety but as soon as Erin got me to move my feet I was able to relax — it was clear that by the time our wedding came we would have a really fun dance!
Erin was very willing to work with our schedule — we live in the city but don’t work there so all of our appointments were in the evening. She was also quite helpful in working with our song selection (Concrete & Clay) which was quite a bit faster than we were expecting! Songs don’t seem as fast until you start dancing…
But, after about 5 minutes it was pretty clear that Erin could bring us up to speed and we were able to give our guests a great show! We definitely couldn’t have done it without her and the next time we’re inclined for a lesson I know we’ll give Erin a call!

We worked with Ylva for our first dance at our wedding and had a wonderful experience. I definitely needed a lot of help and she was always more than patient and helpful. She really listened to us and made sure we were comfortable with everything she planned and that was much appreciated. We had a great time learning our dance and would definitely recommend coming here for dance lessons!

I recently moved to the bay area from Boston. In Boston I was a really serious dancer. When I moved out here I really wanted to keep dancing and wanted to elevate my dancing. I found Pick School on Unilocal and contacted Erin and have just had a wonderful experience since. I have been taking private lessons with her for a few months and she has really taken my dancing to another level. Her knowledge is astounding. She has really catered her style of teaching to exactly my needs as a student. Furthermore, she is a wonderful person. I have so much fun dancing, it is really a blast. I am paying much less than I did back in Boston for much better instruction and an even more enjoyable experience. I have met a few of the other instructors at the school and though I haven’t had a lesson with them they seem incredibly friendly.
Anybody who is interested in learning to dance for whatever reason, I’m telling you, this is the place to go.

Came here for «First Dance» lesson for our wedding! Erin was patience with us and got us working on our moves. I recommend coming here for lessons if you want a memorable «first dance» :) Thanks Erin!

I was terrified of the notion of having to do a first dance at our wedding, and when my first strategy of just plain cutting the dance didn’t pan out, we signed up for a free first swing class. We skulked in, terrified of discovering how our brains might try to communicate with our feet, and how embarrassed we might be to have to move in unison in front of other humans. Duh, I realize everyone feels this way. But we quickly felt at ease and we left our first class saying, wow, that was… fun?
We went ahead and signed up for the remainder of the four week session and learned a handful of swing moves, and then took a wedding workshop to learn some basic foxtrot. Our wedding was a month out and panic was setting in, as we still didn’t know how we’d assemble a whole dance from our limited repertoire. So we picked a song and reached out to the studio and said, hey, can you help us figure this out? After two private lessons with Rose we had a loosely choreographed dance, and in the end, our first dance proved to be one of my favorite moments of the night.
If you’re even remotely thinking about taking a dance class, pull the trigger and try a free class at Pick. Rose is a great teacher as well — she’s lovely and kind and positive, and when we asked her how we were looking, she didn’t hesitate to tell us where we could improve. Post-​wedding, we’re looking forward to signing up for more classes again soon.

The Pick facility is pretty unremarkable (no frills), but parking on weekends is easy. We’ve been taking private lessons with Rose and I’ve been extremely impressed. She is very patient, positive, and knows exactly how much to push you with every lesson. Whether you’re interested in salsa, swing, ballroom, or tango she’s got you covered. Also hours are very flexible so you can come on weekends or evenings… you’ve got absolutely no excuse!
Pro tip for dudes: a package of private dance lessons makes for a pretty killer birthday or Valentine’s day gift.

My wife and I came here for private lessons from Erin for our first husband and wife dance. She wasted no time. I say, go there eager to
Learn. In two lessons she had us dancing with good form in a fully choreographed routine. She is very energetic and professional.

So much fun. I just wish we both had the time to do it more often.
Boy texted me on Friday morning asking me if i wanted to take free tango lessons. WAS THAT EVEN A QUESTION? Of course! Printed out the coupon off their website and headed over.
We were a bit early and checked out the class before us, and the Viennese Waltz class was there. The class we had was for the Argentinian Tango and being the beginning class and the first one, we learned some partner stuff and I had tons of fun with him, especially letting him lead. I just wish that we could go ballroom dancing more often. It might seem like a class for older people, but damn, this was just too much fun.
We were pretty good by the end, but that’s just because I’ve done a bit of ballroom dancing before and apparently, the boy had taken an Argentinian Tango class before — great.
Anyways, we’ll definitely be back, whenever we get more set schedules — that’s what I get for being with someone who works in a hospital.

Argentine Tango: Rose Vierling’s classes and workshops!
Enough said.
If you want to learn, attend Rose’s classes and workshops. She is a great teacher and is super patient! Usually, she has her dance partner, Jesse, and/​or other leaders co-​teach the class as well (to help all the guys learn!)

I love Pick school!
I am dancing Salsa with Erin and Argentine Tango with Rose.
Both teachers are big professionals.
Their lessons are always interesting. Every lesson we learn something new and repeat the previous material. I see that they have system, it’s not just doing something what pushed in the head.
One hour lesson and I am soooo tired! :)
I was also at the Rose’s Tango Workshop and it was amazing two hours where I could learn many useful technical tips.
Looking forward for the Waltz course!
Only one small minus — I wish a little bigger dance room.

My now husband and I took dance lessons at the Pick School before our March 2011 wedding. It was a BLAST and our first dance ended up really great if we say so ourselves!
We started by picking out 2 possible first dance songs and then called Erin Pick to see what kind of dance would work best. She suggested either foxtrot or rumba so we started with a 4 week group lesson for foxtrot. We then took 4 private lessons in which she choreographed our first dance for us.
We looked forward to every lesson, it was so much fun and so great to work with Erin. She is very patient! We had lots of people comment at our wedding how great the first dance was and that they «didn’t know there was going to be entertainment.»
A few recommendations if you are going to have Erin choreograph a first dance: be sure to practice plenty in between lessons so you can get the most out of them! That’s what we did and so we were able to use the lessons to refine the movements instead of re-​learn the steps. Also, start early! It takes time to learn a dance and make it look good!

When Sir Nicholas proposed to me I agreed with one stipulation — he had to take dance lessons with me for our first dance or we wouldn’t have a first dance. I didn’t want to do that 8^th grade sway in front of our guests because I don’t agree that it’s worth the dancing time at a reception. I’d much rather get footloose or shout a little bit louder now or whatever else people do to make fools of themselves at weddings. What? That’s just me and my friends? Well, you don’t know what you’re missing out on.
Anyway, Nick being the gentleman he is not only agreed to dance lessons, he found the school (Pick’s) and set up the lessons with Erin. Can I just say that Erin in magnificent? Because she is. She taught us a totally rad first dance in 5 one-​hour lessons. Did we forget one or two of those steps when the actual dance time came? Sure, but since we had such a plethora of moves in our pockets so to speak we just moved forward with a different move and it was a blast.
Some of the things that made Erin such a pleasure to work with were the fact that she pushed us to do more fun and interesting steps once she saw we had the basics. Her way of instructing both the girl and guy is easy to understand and it’s easy to replicate what she wants because she shows you from both sides of the dance. She’s very patient and kind with praise, which is motivating. She asks for the music before you come to your first dance so she can come up with the choreography to the song before you start. That’s quite a nice time saver.
Nick and I had so much fun learning this dance that I’m pushing to go back and take more lessons, both private and group. And hopefully sometime down the road I can start calling Nick «twinkle toes.» It has a nice ring to it, don’t you think?

Erin RULES! Ladyhawk and I wanted to do something more for our first dance than sway back and forth so we signed up for the wedding special at Pick School. In 5 one hour-​long lessons, Erin choreographed an awesome dance for us and taught us some awesome foxtrot moves.
I had no dance experience and was able to learn very quickly with her style of teaching. Tiffany and I had a blast and plan to go back for fun in the future. Our dance was a hit at our wedding.
On to the quickstep :)

We’re studying dance!
Yes, Erin is teaching us all the right moves. She is patient, but she keeps the pace up. It’s fun to learn a step, then practice it with a partner, then shift left to the next partner. No memory of what you just flubbed, and often your partner is busy apologizing for his or her ineptitude.
But hey, we’re here to have fun! Everyone is a beginner in Salsa I. «No experience necessary,» remember? Now, if I can just remember, 1, 2, 3 … 5, 6, 7 …
The hour flies by like it’s 10 minutes.
Check out the web specials. There are some very good deals there.

My husband and I didn’t want to subject our guests to three minutes of the 8^th grade sway for our first dance (and it would have been as awkward for us as for our guests had we done so), so we decided to take dance lessons. Erin offers a competitively-​priced package for choreographing a wedding dance and dance lessons. All you have to do is choose your music and show up.
Special thanks to Erin for teaching us how to dance. We got so many compliments on the dance afterward (ranging from «Cute moves» to «Thanks for not swaying back and forth»), and we had such a fun time taking lessons together!