Central School Of Ballet

Very nice place with kind people, the teachers are very professional and they have a lot of levels that you can try, the studio is qualified for dancers.

AVOID BEGINNERS’ CLASS AT ALL COST!!!
I tried the beginners’ class with Renato Paroni last week and I am still disgusted and shocked by my experience. Renato is abusive and unprofessional.
Renato was 30 minutes late and one of the students had to step in and start the class. When he arrived he did not bother apologising. Instead, he started the class with excessive arrogance and continued to verbally abuse the students for the entire class. His words were: «I don’t need the money, I come here because I like it», «You are a disaster», «This is the worst class, I don’t know why I came here today and did not stay home» and so on for 60 minutes.
He did not demonstrate the exercises and then he was adding «I don’t know how else to teach» when we could not do them correctly. He did not look at what we were doing and added while sitting on a chair and checking his phone «I will not look at what you do, I am paid to teach only. Whether you do it or not, it’s your business, you are adults». Of course, it goes without saying that he did not make any individual corrections (as he did not look at what we were doing to begin with).
After 60 min he demonstrated an exercise for the first time and he showed us slowly what we had to do. He then asked with sarcasm «is this is how you want me to teach?». When I responded «yes, could you please show us?», he was shocked and responded «GET OUT! DISAPPEAR! GET LOST!»
The lady, who works at the reception and from whom I asked for my money back, did not even have the basic customer service manners and did not apologise on his behalf for this unacceptable behaviour.
What type of school employs this type of person? Schools always inspect the classes to confirm the quality of the material and the standards of the class. I refuse to believe that the inspector had no comments for this surreal class. The fact that this class is approved says a lot about the quality of the school itself.
This is London, people. There are many schools which offer ballet classes which are not taught by such abusive people. Do not even bother with this class.

I popped in last night for a drop in absolute beginner class with David Kierce and I had a lot of fun. it really exceeded my expectations.
Reading the reviews below I wasn’t sure it was going to work as I was expecting it to be overcrowded, difficult to follow, etc. but given my renewed passion for ballet and the fact that I was done with work I decided to give it a try (also to feel less guilty about my lasagna at lunch).
The class is the cheapest I have tried so far (£8 and no membership fee), but the level was at par. The studio is not huge and there were quite a lot of people, but we managed to fit and to do our exercises without crashing into each other.
The teacher is great, really explains carefully all the steps and positions and is very funny.
I would give the 5^th star to this place if it had later classes (7.20 is hard to fit into a busy working schedule) and also if the changing room was a bit bigger and organised: there are a lot of stuffs from the real academy students, so there is a bit of confusion and I am sure I will leave something sooner or later (which reminds me of my ballet days when I was a kid).
i’ll try to put it in my weekly timetable from now on!

I took a few adult ballet lessons here a few months ago. The ballet teacher Renato Paroni was great; seems quite passionate and have a fabulous sense of humour. However, it was overly crowded too crowded for a comfortable session to take place. I also did not get much attention from the teacher which was not really helpful.
I tried the beginner’s class on Tuesday and Thursday evenings ballet classes. And I think it is too easy for me who have some experience. However, the more advance classes looked really difficult. So, I stopped going to the classes and I am now looking for other better places more suitable for my level of experience.

I went to a weeknight, adult drop-​in beginner’s ballet class. It was extremely overcrowded. Although the instructor was warm and funny, the lack of space and individual attention made it a very difficult environment to learn. I think one would be better off learning to dance from taped exercises, than dropping in for a class — it was more like attending a lecture, than actually getting exercise and practice.
I peeked into the studios where the intermediate classes were held — the class sizes were smaller, and students seemed to be quite advanced.