Arthur Murray Dance Studio

I could not leave my number

707346****

The owner and his wife hardly there if you have any issue with any of the instructor or the unethical conducts occurs at the studio, the owners will not care to take steps toward resolution. Teachers turnover rate are high, sometimes just disappeared leaving the students wondered what happened.

Constant high pressure sales and if there is any indication that a student will not continue signing additional new packages the teachers will intentional not put any efforts into teaching you the rest of your already paid lessons. Their units packages are outrageously expensive for such subpar teachings. Until you kept coughing up tons of money they will not teach you anything but kept repeating the same basic steps. Very dishonest approach and their instructors are trained to use sales tactics to that are at times unethical.

Every aspect of this studio is about their bottom line and they do not care about the students. Phonies and disgusting behaviors.

The instructors who stayed at this studio long enough are very groupies and gossiping, no teaching talents and not even that great of performers outside of the Arthur Murray chain “cult”. Students are sheeps to them and the only pretend to miss you and value you if you are ok to continue dumping big money on them and not questioning why there is so little progress in your dancing even at a silver level student, they suck.

In order for the local Arthur Murray to send 1 - 2 or 3 dance hosts for one hour for a small local charity funsraiser they requested $850. To give more money to the non profit mission, instead of AM, a volunteer set up an Epson projector and showed dancers in action from YouTube while the DJ played the dance music.

The DJ donated his time for the cause. Luckily much more money was raised by not going with the Arthur Murray $850 proposal - it seemed exceptionally expensive for just one hour.

Signed up for a "complimentary" 30 minute lesson. Then bought a Groupon for $49.

It included 2 private and 2 group lessons and 2 parties. When I tried to use it, AM said that the Groupon can't be used as it is also a "promotion" as is the free intro lesson. Groupon gave me my money back, but I will NEVER go back to AM. There was a group of people taking a group lessson and I can't imagine them paying "full price" of $979 for 8 lessons!!

This is what we were told was their base price for lessons.

Horrible.?My husband and I went there with the goal of learning to dance for our daughter's wedding. We purchased 4 lessons (45 minute) for $500 and got little from it.?1.

A good 10 minutes of each lesson was devoted to trying to sell us a Bronze package for $5000, which I believe was 40 more lessons. So we were effectively paying them to deliver a sales pitch to us.?2. We were given 15 minutes on one dance and then another 15 or 20 of another. Overall we were taught the basic steps for up to 3 different dances per session rather than learning and solidifying a single dance at a time.

It was difficult to keep it straight or to know what dance to do to what songs.?3. There was a lot of false flattery. Each time that I went there I was told how wonderful I looked. After a while it came across as insincere.?4.

The instructor acted as if she was teaching children or prepping high school kids for a big game. Lots of hand slapping, hugging and insincere closeness, when what we wanted was a professional dance instructor. ?5. They were deliberately withholding instruction as part of the ploy to get us to sign up for more classes.

Part of this was teaching us dances that we would never use such as the Polka and the Quick Step. Little time was devoted to waltz, fox trot, swing and other dances appropriate for our event.??I would not recommend anyone to go there.