Best Aero Dance Class Lowell Near Me

Denise M: Terrible front desk woman w glasses....there are other gyms with better attitude than hers.Have referred friends here over the years, as my own girls had great experience 15 yrs ago. Times do change! shop around...

Lexi Rose: I go here myself and I love it everyone is sooo nice and I just love it

Valerie Nicholas: I got there a little late so I didn't get a partner but after the lesson I was asked to dance. I was not too bad as I danced with a partner. I didn't stay for too long after I learned the Salsa a bit. It was a good time!

Evie Test: My experience at KBDS was not all bad. I found most of my recreational instructors (particularly Kyla) to have been caring and nurturing human beings. I have also effectively learned dance technique that I doubt will ever fully leave my body. However, there are certainly some things worth mentioning.I’ll start by recognizing that much of what I’ll say applies to competitive dance rather than recreational. I was on the competitive dance team at KBDS for several years. To be completely honest, I wouldn’t recommend it to any developing child. Not at KBDS or anywhere else. Your child may protest — I certainly did — but I can almost 100% assure you that it’s for the best and that there are other athletic and creative activities out there that can better suit this vital developmental stage. Competitive dance directly instilled an unhealthy level of anxiety, perfectionism, and body dysmorphia in me that I am still working through years later. It’s probably better to curb these intense psychological effects and do something else.But there were some things that Kathy Blake Dance Studios did specifically that made it a particularly difficult experience for me growing up. Parents are heavily involved in the functions of the team and the individual choreographed pieces. Helicopter parents brought in consistent and usually petty complaints. This made for a strange web of administrator-parent-child politics. It was inappropriate for what is supposedly an educational and “professional” environment. Not only that, but such policies heightened the pre-existing anxiety amongst the student population within the studio. We were not just expected to be perfect on stage, but everywhere else. Our social lives with other dancers outside studio time was monitored by parents. Gossip and drama from middle/high schoolers, which is to be inevitable and expected from this age group, was brought out of private circles/social media into the KBDS office at alarming frequency. Not only that, but those parents with a closer-knit relationship with studio administrators were exempt from the expectations that went for the general student population. Thus, conduct policies were always arbitrarily enforced. Dancers were always anxious to mess up, dancing or not (mess up socially), based on an entirely capricious set of conditions.The anxiety affected my adolescent life. I’m unpacking it well into my adulthood. I would even argue that the psychological negligence at KBDS affected my physical dance abilities. You can tell when a dancer is so caught up in their own head that they can’t properly execute their movements. If you’re anxious that every move you make is going to look awkward and wrong, you’ll certainly see that mindset come out in your moves. Dance is best learned with anxiety at a minimum, so as to free the body for more fearless experimentation and to better connect with one’s sense of sound and creativity. These values were ultimately not fostered or valued during my time at KBDS— at least, not where it counted. The instructors themselves were unfortunately much better at cultivating this environment than their higher-ups were (i.e., Kathy Blake, dance team coaches, dance competition judges, etc). They mistake the key to being a good dancer as intensity. It is actually freedom. Some studios are a lot better at emphasizing the latter than KBDS was, even in the confined area of Southern NH. I danced at a few of those kinds of studios since I left KBDS. The difference in my dancing is profound and noticeable. I wasn’t terrible at KBDS or anything, but I’m a whole lot better now that I’m not not being conditioned to question my every move.I wouldn't have said anything at all about it if this experience hadn't been so intense, or cautionary. My teammates and I are linked forever because of the shared trauma. We still speak about it. Today we realized that we've never really said anything outside our own circles. I figure the least I can do is post this, for prospective parents or for administration.See also: ridiculously expensive!!!

Yasmin C: They are great with young kids. My daughter is enjoying her class.

Mya.: this place is slaytastic

Sabrina Stroud: My daughter is beyond happy at DCU and wants to take all of the classes! She would live at the studio if she had the option. Her only regret, not switching to DCU sooner!