Dance Kraze Dance Studio

Dance Kraze Dance Studio is one of the worst studios around. The owner is rude to the dancers and parents. She will go into a class and humiliate the kids by telling them how bad they are, loudly and in front of everyone. Then she turns around and says, it was to motivate them...Who do you think you are ...Abby Lee Miller???? The owner makes you sign a contract with rules in order to join the competition team, but certain dancers are allowed to break those rules, while others are not. What kind of example is she setting? Almost every other week, something "mandatory" is added, usually costing the parents more money. As mentioned in some of the precious comments, parts of choreography are copied from You Tube, especially one certain teacher, who happens to be the owners daughter. Just plain sad, since she is always winning choreography awards for copied dances. It is really sad what the owner has done to her studio!

Wow I have been waiting to see how long it would take someone to finally write the truth about this Dance Studio. I agree with all the comments people have been writing about this Dance Studio. We will never return back this is not the kind of environment I would want my child to be exposed to. Thieves for sure! The money the charges the extra fees just so you know many of the Company Parents had to pick up a second or third job just to pay their bills and all the extra charges. My Husband and myself both had to pick up a second job just to pay the bill it is over the top priced that's for sure. If there wasn't this and that and this and that the price wouldn't be so high but all the extra fees it was an extravagant price I was paying. Teaching Staff I never really experienced anything too bad but it depends on who you get as a teacher. I am not going to lie my daughters forever favorite teacher you don't even see anymore I heard that teacher kind of dropped her classes and moved on from the unfairness drama which is really sad because she was amazing. I hope she found something new and better and can keep her passion going because she was one talented and creative teacher. The only unprofessional thing I can not stand about the teachers is that there is one of the teachers that has her favorites and picks and chooses for sure just so she wins and not to mention all the choreography she steals its actually sad. Parents caught on. I still hear about it and we have been gone for some time. The director being fake I also agree if its not her sitting between people ease dropping she makes sure she goes out into the parking lot just to see what your talking about and acts as if she is just running to her car but she isn't. Instead of worrying about the parents she needs to worry about her not so professional office staff. Please when I think of the women in the office I want to vomit. She smells so bad just me thinking about it makes me sick to my stomach. She is a bigger women but that is no excuse to not shower for days constantly wear the same outfit two or even three days in a row. This sounds really gross but she smells like dirty *** and seriously she is so gross and she is the first person you see when you walk in that office and it smells from her so bad. You get so many emails I just stopped reading them because you never knew who they were coming from the awfully smelling office lady or the director or was the office lady emailing you from the directors email?? No one ever knew we all just ignored them because they were so unprofessional and we received at all hours of the night and most of the time they made no sense. Silly thing about the rules and emails you will get emails about smoking cigarettes which I fully agree dancers lungs are important but then again you see that awful smelling office women outside chain smoking and talking *** herself to other mothers and literally *** in front of everyone and laughs about it and smells up the entire studio she is so gross. The office women is the reason I will tell my friends do not go in that dirty gross studio go somewhere else that is at least clean and fun and that cares about the kids. The director and the teachers and the choreography I agree you will get this and the payments where ever you go dancing competitively but our main reason for leaving was the gross unclean and unprofessional smelly office lady. I do miss them all but I couldn't stomach the women's smell at all anymore everyone always complained my youngest would hold her nose when we had to go make a payment. Thank god they have online paying most parents I heard lately its so bad they wont even go in there. It could be the ultimate Dance Studio in CT but with that women in the office and the dirtiness that studio will never ever be #1

Over the years we have danced, cheered and tumbled at some pretty great studios. What we saw from afar looked pretty darn good. The company team was well put together, head to toe, they looked the part. We made the decision to join dance Kraze and tried out for team. Let me start from here. It’s not that the prices are over the top, it’s the upcharge that gets you. Class prices are reasonable. It’s little things that become mandatory and money is always the issue, always needing more to be exact. While preparing for a competition, we had a friend at another studio competing at the same comp, when I said can you believe the fees went up this year. Her response “mine didn’t”. Then you start to pay attention. Money hungry is what they are. Office staff- is awful. The owner is constantly on edge and always has a snarky comment or remark to make. If she’s hanging in the waiting room you know it’s fake, or she is trying to ease drop on the “talkers” conversations. Don’t even get me started on the woman in office. Well this woman could be very sweet her hygiene is just not even close to par. If I was a business owner I would want my office staff,that person who is the front of the action and Fields all of my business to look the part, And be professional. This woman looks as if she has rolled out of bed and smells as if she hasn’t showered in days. Not to mention I’m pretty sure she’s missing several teeth. If you attempt to call the studio phone it’s never answered. It’s like they field their phone calls. They blame the students for a messy student lounge and waiting area. Numerous occasions have the students not been allowed to use the student lounge, but has been taken over with dance teacher clutter. It constantly smells like dirty feet. And when my child was done dancing their feet from the floors would be almost black. The competence of the teachers - I guess it depended on which style of dance you were teaching. Their motto is “ we don’t just teach your child a dance, we teach your child how to dance “ this has not been the case for us. My child did both company and recreational classes at the studio and I have never felt with the exception of maybe one or two teachers that my child had adequate learnings. Compared to other studios my child has walked away with more under their belt then with dance Kraze. While depending on the teacher there choreography has been outstanding. In a lot of cases national champion winning choreography. But if you pick and choose which kid you want and which team at least one of your teams is always bound to win. When your child is placed in class with less than adequate teacher at a competitive level and forced to dance against another group and the same studio and you can’t even compare just based on technique or the lack there of technique makes these kids feel and look awful. My experience here has been a roller coaster some of the parents are great and some of them always have something to say. You’ll find that no matter which studio you go to. I just feel that you may be disappointed in the studio atmosphere, as well as the neediness to pay more money constantly, Open ended promises, constant changes to the “ mandatory” calendar, Office staff personal not professional, and the lack there of feeling as though the studio is your family. When your children are forced to believe they are better than everybody else and turn into snots.

I registered my great grandson for a class in August to start in September. My fault that I assumed the class night was the same night this year as last. Well we gave the new class a try and was assured he could switch classes. When we went to the other class we were 15 min early and he even checked to see that he wasn't late. He was assured he was on time and he would be in the class. 2 minutes before it was to start they call me in and tell me it was full and he can only go to the class that the teacher had no control over the students. Even an 8 year old could see through a lie. Spent an hour consoling him and got the response I will never dance again. Don't call that caring for their students

I agree! I had my two daughters attend for a year and I thought they were overpriced and had this arrogance about them. Then recital time came and I was mortified at some of the dances they were having these young girls do! It was not art, it bordered on child ***. My husband was so uncomfortable watching. And, to add on to the competitive comment from above...from what I heard from many of the others moms is they act as if it's a privilege to join but in actuality they will allow anyone to join if your wallet can fit the bill. The place is very trashy all around.

This studio is a bunch of crooks who do not truly care about your child and their love for dance - it's only about the money! They like to promote children to their competitive team because the classes are double the price to that of recreational but, they come across as if it's an honor to get into the competitive team. Once you get in, they urge and harass you about raising money through fundraising to assist with the competition fees but, they actually won't let you use this money. The owner is probably one of the nastiest, meanest women I have ever met. She has major attitude and is only nice to you if she wants something - which is usually money or donating your time to make her studio look good. The kids work hard all year to compete, travel across regions, but not once has the studio ever congratulated these kids. They are complete trash. I would highly recommend you do not bring your son/daughter here. Oh - and the entire place smells like dirty feet.