Dance Productions 5945 State Road 2848, Charlotte, NC 28213

"Love them"

"All you have to do is look at the homemade sign above the door (that's slapped on top of a larger sign still visible behind it) to understand what a disaster this studio is. Extremely unprofessional staff who are rarely on time, classes that start late and end even later. Many times my kid doesn't get home until after 10pm on school nights. There is no respect shown by either the teachers or students, as there is no teaching going on, only choreography. The staff doesn't appear to even like working with kids and they have no training as dance teachers. A girl severely broke her arm this year when the teacher choreographed her jumping off a table on wheels. One teacher is rarely there, and the other, who is a former student, only pays attention to and choreographs for her friends. It's clear that for her, it's easier to feature the ones who already know how to do tricks than to teach them all how to dance. . None of the staff will even make eye contact or say hello to the parents in the hallway. And the fees for props are outrageous. I sent my kid there to learn how to dance, not stand behind and push around gigantic props that we need an 18 wheeler to haul to nationals. It doesn't matter how many times we ask for less props and more technique, we get more props and no technique. Plus we just had to endure a 4 hour recital dominated entirely by competition numbers. How can a studio that's been in business for over 25 years have less than 50 recreational students? This will be our last year at dance productions."