Alexandra School of Dancing

"Maggie Kudirka ,was 23 years old abald ballerina.. The fact that Magda believes that long hair is a requirement to be a ballerina ,is to me a testament of her ignorance. To then proceed to make reference to the child's feet .. as if it was impossible to dance if you were black!! How about Misty Copeland, aurther Mitchell ?????? The actions towards this child were disgusting.. your business should seize to exist.. If you were sincere then you would have called for a meeting to discuss and rectify the issue at hand. As a mother to a black female child, I ask you amend your details with "Your " requirements " of who will make it , according to their physical features.."

"Several time Magda made nasty comments about my daughter's hair. 1 time I braided my daughter's hair and she said to me. "Make sure tie her hair tight next time because it is distucts other children. Another aucasion my daughter brought her doll and she said "your doll has more hair than you. All this time I just ignored her comments to maintain professional boundaries. The other time she said " your daughter has such ballerina feet for a black child, some black children struggle" October 2018 I missed payment and my daughter had missed few classes coz I went away to burry my father. Magda emailed me to anounce that the place was gone. I was not bothered because I had never noticed any progress from Magda class. About a month later my daughter told me Magda said to her " if you want to a ballerina you have to have hair like mine" I was so upset and what hurts me more was that my daughter didn't see anything wrong with that she actually thought it was the right thing to say. When I made a complain the man who responded to my email was just as rude. He said my daughter was not telling the truth. His advise to me was "don't always take what kids say". Of which I was even more concerned that a person who run a class of tender aged children. He then tried to threaten me that he is going to report me to the police because I am harrasing Magda because she is in hospital."

"Magda is an excellent teacher and has taught me from the first baby class up to Grade 6 and hopefully beyond. The classes are fun and there are also the opportunities to take exams, partake in photo shoots and attend workshops."

"My 4 year old daughter attended a Saturday class where the kids could have "fun" and a bit of free style ballet dancing. There was a 2 week free trial, which was helpful. The classes themselves were ok. The staff and the main teacher of the school in particular were not very welcoming nor approachable. I imagined that if you was working with young kids that you'd have the social skills to do so. Their approach towards parents was also quite unprofessional (e.g complaining about unpaid invoices via memos in unprofessional language). After 20 weeks, my daughter found the classes a bit repetitive and started to become uninterested. I decided to look for another school that might be more stimulating. When I spoke to the teacher about my daughter leaving, she made comments that were uncalled for, describing my daughter as "not very bright" and "easily distracted" and asked me, "havent you noticed that the other kids had gone on to the more advanced classes and yours hadnt", when in actual fact the class simply didn't meet her needs. At the end of the day, this was supposed to be a "fun" ballet class that wasn't very fun. My friend asked if it was a good idea for her to bring her daughter there but I didn't recommend it unfortunately."

"Good great"