Great studio! Terrific teachers and lots of classes to choose from.read more

From the owner: Competition Dance Team! as well as a complete collection of Recreational dance classes for ages…read more2-Adult for all skill levels including: Ballet Contemporary Hip Hop Jazz Modern Tap Adult Yoga Adult Fitness ...and lots more!

Love this place. My 14 year-old just signed up for her third year. What really sets Freestyle apart…read moreis that it's truly all about the love of dance. While there is a competitive dance team that students can audition for, the week-to-week class focus is on learning and dancing. We've tried other schools in the past and I usually end up feeling like the kids spend the whole year planning for a huge, expensive, loooong recital. Here, the year ends with a dance showcase that is warm and friendly and reasonably priced to attend and to participate in (no expensive costumes that your kids will only wear once). Colleen is an amazingly talented, patient, and enthusiastic teacher. Tony, the owner, is just a super great guy. The whole staff is very friendly and they seem to get along like a family. Give Freestyle a try!

We had my son's sixth birthday party here this past weekend and it was an amazing party. After the…read moreparty was over many parents emailed and called us saying that their kids were raving that it wasthe best party they had ever been to! Multiple parents said this! Tony, the party coordinator, was amazing and didn't leave any stone unturned! He had great ideas on decorating the room and allowed us to bring in some of our own food and decorations. The kids played in the fantasy fun zone for a while and played games inside the dance studio. Awesome party! Would 100% have it there again!

My daughter loves it here! Top quality teaching. Here you learn from former professional dancers…read moreand veteran teachers. They care about challenging your child, technique and continual growth.

a stellar performance by our youth! They were precise, disciplined and well mannered. The…read moreconservatory further proves that when parents and teachers work together, children will excel in anything they do.

The PDA staff is professional, welcoming, and encouraging to my young ballet dancer who started at…read more3 years old and who has big dreams and ambitions of performing on stage when she's older.

My almost 3 years old daughter had her first dance class today and I can't begin to tell you how…read moregreat an experience this was for her and me. I had so much anxiety about her having separation anxiety or having a total meltdown but Lori and her staff were absolutely amazing and patient. My daughter went off to class without a fuss which was an absolute miracle!!! Thank you thank you thank you!!!

My son has taken lessons here for a few months, and we've been very happy. The teachers are focused…read moreon detail but also are easy going and relaxed with students. The studio has a great community, and we love attending. Another plus is that for siblings of dancers, the studio has books and a homework area so that they can occupy themselves as they wait, which has been very useful to us.

My daughter has been dancing at PDT for 8 years. The training, the staff, the performances are top…read morenotch. If your child wants to dance, look no further than PDT!

Raphael is an amazing teacher, love this place.Everybody's so nice and the lessons are perfectread more

My soon-to-be wife and I went here because of a Living Social deal we got so that we could learn to…read moredance for our wedding. From there we signed up for 4 additional classes. Classes are a little expensive, but I think it really helped. Staff is very friendly and you never feel judged. Also very flexible with scheduling classes. They do individual lessons, groups lessons, and Friday night dance parties. Think we learned a lot and we're much better prepared for our first dance!

We absolutely love it here!! We have been coming since my oldest was three years old. Both of our…read moregirls loved the creative movement classes (3-6 yo), where I was astonished to see how quickly and easily they learn the fundamentals of ballet, while having a blast every single week. I can see their skills developing further in the ballet classes, and frankly they are head and shoulders above kids who attend "dance moms" style schools. Obviously Covid changed operations, but I never felt uncomfortable sending my kids here. Miss Collins was relentlessly sanitizing and emphasizing proper hygiene, and held classes on a beautiful outdoor stage as long as weather permitted. Couldn't recommend highly enough-it's absolutely worth it!!

This is our second year at Metropolitan Ballet Academy and we love it. My girls have learned so…read moremuch and look forward to every class. The teachers not only focus in technique but relate understanding behind every move, and every new term they learn. My girls wouldn't want to be anywhere else.

We found Miss Jeanne's to be a very disappointing experience. We read many great reviews about the…read moreplace, so we confidently chose it as where to enroll our 3 year old girls for their first year of dance lessons. The school, for us, seems to be largely riding on its legacy. Many of the other parents at the school were dancers there previously, so as "outsiders" we often felt out of the loop and that a lot of the things we needed to know weren't widely broadcast because it was seemingly assumed that we just knew what was going on. Our girls started in September, but in January we discovered we had not been receiving any email communications from the studio. Mistakes happen, but the dates and times of the year end recital had changed, which meant family who wanted to come see the performance didn't have enough notice to change their schedules; had we received those initial emails in the fall they would have had time to adjust their vacation schedules. Once we began receiving emails it still seemed as if we would only get some of what was sent out as more often than not we should show up for class with some kind of special event going on that we had no clue about (and yes, we regularly check our Spam so the communications were not ending up there either). Also, whole emails were used sometimes important announcements were just made to the parents in the waiting room, meaning if you weren't there or stepped out to run an errand during class you missed out and had no way of knowing what, if anything, you might have missed. Overall, the communication from the studio to parents was very poor. While communication was one big issue the larger one was that parents were really just viewed as means to write a check every month. Parents were forbidden to go in to the dance studio (beyond the waiting room) and to talk to the teachers. While we certainly understand the problems of having parents in the studio creates and that you can't have a line of parents harassing the teacher after lessons, causing the next hour of lessons to run late, it's problematic when you are dealing with 3-4 year olds who aren't the best communicators. We never got any kind of feedback or assessment from the teacher or studio as to how our girls were doing in class, if or what they should be practicing at home, if they possessed any natural aptitude for dancing, and if they even seemed to enjoy it. For older students, that's not a problem, but for the parents of toddlers it's a very frustrating place to be. Our girls often seemed reticent to go to class saying they didn't like it, but then would be very excited and happy after class, so who knows. We eventually got frustrated enough with the place that we pulled our girls out in April because we were over not knowing how or what our children were doing for that hour each week they were in class and because we continued to receive very poor instructions from the studio about what was expected of us / what we needed to do. One week they were supposed to show up in full recital attire. We never were told they needed to do so that week and then were given the hasty instructions of "just dress them up next week" without any specifics of what they should wear, how their hair should be, or what make up they needed. Again, it was all assumed that we just knew all these details. As far as I can tell, the teachers do a good job with the students. Our girls, over time, did show us some steps they learned and they even performed their routine for us after we un-enrolled from the school. We felt horrible about doing so since they had worked hard all year, but we had no confidence that we would actually receive the instructions and feedback we needed to put our children in a place to succeed at the recital. The older students who were there seemed to really like it. For us, though, the school seemed very focused on the competition aspect of dance and less on the artistic expression aspects. Our perception on that might be incorrect, but that was just the vibe we got, which was also not what we were really looking for in a dance studio. In any case, if our girls decide they want to continue dancing we will find a different dance school to take them to.

We love MJ's School of Dance Arts. Having been a mom with no dance experience, I received guidance…read moreevery step of the way On what to expect of them and of my children. Current and past staff were strong on attention to detail, building confidence, and manners. Although we sadly miss Miss Jeanne, Barbara, and Gwendel, we know that the school is still one of high quality.

Just want to say I have been dancing at the Dance Center for a number of years now and how lucky I…read morefeel to have a professional studio with teachers and a director who warmly welcome and appreciate adult dancers. The Wednesday morning class is a joy. The dancers are a nice mix ranging from students who danced as children, to others who more recently have realized an adult dream come true, college students earning degrees, people who seek an outstanding form of fitness, as well as active and retired dancers enjoying their craft. Altogether it is a healthy mix of upbeat, friendly, supportive people. When I am there, the problems of the world drop away. And when I leave, I feel exhilarated and ready for anything. Jeannie H.

From the owner: The Dance Center is West Chester's premiere dance studio that has trained dancers since 1974…read more Over 65 classes on our schedule are offered. Pre-Dance Division - ages 3,4 and 5,6 ~ 2 levels of training in Ballet, Jazz, Tap, Hip Hop. Elementary Division - ages 7 to 11 ~ 6 levels of training in Ballet, Pointe, Pointe Preparation, Hip Hop, Lyrical, Stretch & Conditioning. Pre-Professional Division - ages 12 to 18 ~ 4 levels of training in Ballet, Pointe, Variations, Partnering, Lyrical, Contemporary Jazz, Hip Hop. Performing Opportunities year-round with the Brandywine Ballet Company and Brandywine Contemporary Company. Over 100 students from our school have gone on to professional ballet and contemporary companies across the United States. Too numerous to mention are the hundreds of students who have gone on to earn scholarships at leading dance colleges and universities. Learn more about our professional faculty and state-of-the-art facility, housing 4 large studios, by visiting our website: thedancecenter.org. Don't hesitate to email us and our Director, Donna Muzio will guide you to the appropriate class selection(s) for your child. We are now accepting registrations for our Fall Season of Dance! info@thedancecenter.org