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    Kalamazoo Ballroom Academy

    5.0 (8 reviews)
    Closed 5:00 pm - 9:30 PM
    Updated 3 months ago

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    Such a fun place to meet new people and bust some moves. Learning to dance made easy and fun!

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    We are having the best time, Brock is a great teacher. We have learned so much in just 2 lessons.

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    Blue Heron Academy

    Blue Heron Academy

    1.7
    (6 reviews)

    This school is a scam. They get people to take out loans, don't provide the services they claim to,…read moreand then sue the people for double the loan cost. You can see this is their common practice based on other reviews. They prey on young people interested in health and wellness who don't know how to spot the scam. Extremely sad and deplorable. I'm surprised there's not a major lawsuit.

    In 2008 I applied here to attend the Phlebotomy classes. I went in for a tour, I met the teacher,…read moreI filled out paperwork and signed many papers concerning loans and financial assistance. I could not receive a loan so I opted out of attending because I couldn't afford to pay for it out of pocket. I put it behind me. Jump ahead 4 years....I am served a summons to appear in court with the plaintiff being BHC!!! Imagine my surprise as I had never once attended classes here or even stepped foot on the campus since the initial day of the tour! I couldn't understand why I was being sued for some outrageous amount for classes I had never even attended or agreed to! The gentleman serving me the summons told me that the same thing had happened to his friends daughter. The same being that she filled out paperwork and went on a tour, never attended and then was sued for the unpaid amount of attending classes. We settled on an amount with the courts because my signature was everywhere! I tried to talk to the school many times and the head of admissions was "never in" and never returned my calls. I even showed up one day and stormed past the reception area to her office and pounded on the door. This place is a joke. This "school" is 100% a scam!

    Grand Rapids Job Corps Center

    Grand Rapids Job Corps Center

    2.0
    (1 review)

    Going into debt for college or working a soul-crushing 9-5 would be more enjoyable than Job Corps…read more I came here to learn, but I'm stuck with immature roommates who have zero social awareness or respect for others. I'm spending my time correcting teenagers and drug addicts instead of focusing on my trade. For how strict the program is on minor details, they are dangerously lenient during non-training hours. There is a total lack of authority because the staff, who are underpaid, would rather be friends with students than enforce rules. This has led to a breakdown in respect where the "bad" students outweigh the good, leaving those of us who actually have some smarts and care about our futures feeling like we're in a lost cause. The living conditions are horrid and borderline unsanitary. You can't even use the bathroom properly because stalls are missing toilet paper or don't close, and public restrooms are locked up because students use them for drugs or sex. While both are government-funded, local public schools beat Job Corps in every category from food quality to quantity. The system doesn't separate age groups or progress levels, so you're lumped in with a mix of 16-to-24-year-olds regardless of maturity. The Career Preparation Period (CPP) is a useless facade, and while they try to pamper you with activities the first week, it's all just a front to hide the reality of the program. Security and oversight are fundamentally broken. The screening process is a joke; students exploit the system by bringing in THC pens and other contraband because bags are barely checked and metal detectors are bypassed. Even when caught, Resident Assistants are often too lenient, assigning meaningless "details" that no one actually completes. There is a deep inconsistency in how rules are enforced; one day a manager tells you that you have "too much stuff" despite it being on your inventory, and the next, an RA is ignoring blatant drug use because they are friends with the students. Some staff members are even rumored to be supplying the substances themselves. The turnover rate for both staff and students is nonstop, which halts any real progress. I'm making no headway in my trade because of a poor culinary instructor who relies on favoritism rather than education. It feels like the program has strayed from its original purpose of providing opportunity and has instead become a dumping ground for parents who can't handle their children. This isn't a place for rehabilitation or learning anymore; it's a place of poverty-level conditions and failed bureaucracy. The only reason I stayed so long is for the free healthcare and driver's license, but the bad consistently outshines the good. Unless there is a massive overhaul in how they handle safety, substance abuse, and basic living standards, nothing here will ever change.

    Bravo Arts Academy

    Bravo Arts Academy

    5.0
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    I have been regularly taking classes at Bravo Arts Academy since it opened in May 2016. I really…read moreenjoy all of different classes offered and a big part of that is the main instructor, Alison Peterson-Loll. She has taken her extensive dance background and applied it to a variety of workout and dance classes for adults and kids. She is excellent at helping a new student feel comfortable starting a workout routine and a master at challenging her established students to keep pushing themselves. She is also awesome at adapting a movement or position to limitations we might have with an injury or chronic problem. I have been doing Cardio Barre class (low impact stretching and strengthening cardio class using ballet-inspired movements and poses) with the owner once or twice a week for over 3 years (beginning at a prior location) and continue to find this an effective workout both for beginners with no dance background and, with layered in technique boosters, more advanced participants. I take her Plank It class twice a week as well. This 30 minute workout of 2-3 minute routines of Plank poses and transitions to upbeat music is an efficient way to target strengthening the core abdominal muscles along with sculpting the legs, arms and back. The most recent addition for her teen and adult classes are the aerial silk yoga and fitness classes. Follow Bravo Arts Academy on Instagram or check out the Facebook page/website for photos and videos of these unique classes. In silk hammocks suspended from the ceiling (silk holds over 500 lbs and rigging is rated to hold over 2000 lbs), we do stretches, poses, core challenges, flips, and more. The yoga class is low to no impact and requires no yoga experience. Anyone, no matter their age, athletic level or body type can participate successfully. It is a combination of meditation, hybrid yoga/dance moves and poses assisted by the silk and some inversions. As a motion sickness suffering, I tolerate this class with only a few adaptations and this has actually improved the more I do silk classes. The aerial silk fitness class is for people who want a little more challenge/physical workout invoking more strength moves and involved poses and inversions. However we all start out as beginners and this is again something that is pretty easy to pick up and then build upon the skills you learn in each class. Once you master a trick that you've seen on the website or saw another student do the class before, you are hooked, wanting to see what you can do next. One of the main themes of the classes I take is that they are a lot of fun and unique so you often walk away realizing what a great workout you got doing something that didn't feel like boring exercise. So, as you can tell, I am a big fan of Bravo Arts Academy and I didn't even talk about the excellent instruction done for the children's ballet, jazz and tap dance classes.

    Kalamazoo Ballroom Academy - dancestudio - Updated July 2026

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