Arthur Murray Dance Centers Mesa Gilbert

"We are having a great time. Our instructor Hugo has a lot of patience working with us."

"My husband and I take from Hugo and think he’s fantastic. He does a great job customizing the lesson for our needs. He gives me tips on how to protect my bad shoulder while dancing, and he makes analogies between dance and sports for my husband who has an athletic background. All the instructors are friendly and encouraging. Highly recommend!"

"We are on our second instructor at AMDC, Hugo, and he is wonderful. He did a great job at picking up where our last instructor left off, and we love seeing his face every week. Hugo does an excellent job at deciding when to add more instruction or just keep practicing a given step sequence for the moment, he has been adding the perfect amount of new and rehearsed skills for each lesson. He is really great at adapting to your learning style and giving you the lesson the way you can understand it. Also, when watching us practice new steps, he has a very keen eye and gives bullseye tips between sequences. I seriously feel like we are having a top notch lesson when we go. As a novice with very average rhythm, I come away feeling excited and enthusiastic about how much I just learned and did, at each lesson... and I'm just not sure it would be this fun or come as easy as it seems without the experience that Hugo creates. Our first instructor was also fantastic, and we were nervous to see her go and get to know a new instructor, but apparently that's just how they roll at Arthur Murray Dance Centers! Thanks for keeping it awesome, Hugo!"

"Over four weeks ago my wife and I and another couple contacted the owner for private dance lessons. Since we are all small business owners and in the Mesa, Gilbert and Apache Junction Chambers of Commerce, we were happy to work with a struggling business ( I say this because there were multiple posts on Facebook from the owner offering all kinds of discounts and accommodations to get customers in the door). We requested private lessons for the four of us and were willing to pay extra to ensure this arrangement. The owner, Bob Powers was thrilled to have the business and was very happy with our request UNTIL the night before we were set for our lessons and said he had additional couples and would NOT be able to meet our reservations after all. This is extremely unprofessional and unacceptable. We all changed our schedules to make this appointment but he absolutely didn't care. "We are getting busier and there is just no way....." okay, fine, get busy with winter visitors but we will remember who kept their word when the summer comes and once again you are begging for business. As far as I am concerned this is not a man who keeps his word, so he is not worth giving any business to in the future. The owners response is completely misleading. We have an email from TJ who spoke with Jen and Bob. NO ONE asked you to close an entire studio down, and our lesson was for 30 minutes not 3 hours. You asked us to change the time from 7:15 to 5:45 to accommodate another group coming to you. Which we agreed to, even though it inconvenienced us. You clearly have very poor communication with your own staff and abysmal communication with customers. I have all the texts and emails and would be happy to post them. Just give the word. 1/9/22 5pm So your response is to dig up a bad review from 3 years ago and post it. That really shows who you are. And that review on yelp was actually for the shop across from me. I posted an actual issue. When i get a bad review, I handle it properly ,like a professional, not try to trash the person. Some of my best customers came from bad reviews which I found our errors and corrected them. If it wasn't for those bad reviews i couldn't have grown to where we are today. You might try the same. Imagine if you handled this differently? We could have been a good source of repeat business and referrals."

"My husband and I started here one month ago. These instructors are all great—both welcoming and supportive. We can’t give them enough praise. We have learned so much in a short time, but we still have a long, fun, way to go."