We found Maria through an extensive internet search to dance at our wedding on Sept. 1st, 2018. She…read morewas highly recommended to us by another belly dancer in San José who was unavailable. In retrospect we are glad she was! Maria was absolutely phenomenal! She had the crowd completely in awe. My husband is half Lebanese and belly dancers are a staple at any event and now I can see why. She was dynamic, captivating, funny, beautiful, & an amazing presence to have at your wedding. Our guests adored her and if we had to do it all over again I would hire her in a heartbeat. She traveled from San José to San Juan Bautista to perform and did not charge us a travel fee and was very flexible with allowing us to choose a costume that went with our theme. I would highly recommend her to perform at your event. You will not be disappointed.

Maria performed at our wedding in April of this year. I have researched numerous performers, but…read moredecided to move forward with Maria based on a lot of her videos. I am so glad that I did. Maria was very easy to work with - she was open to suggestions of my music choices (and provided hers when asked). She has a stunning collection of beautiful costumes, to match any style / color scheme. More importantly, though, she is an incredible performer - very good at engaging and warming up the crowd and her dancing technique is really really good. Highly highly recommend her for any type of event!

I've been dancing with A Polynesian Performance for a little over 2 years now. I absolutely love…read moreit! Lokeanna is a fantastic instructor. She's so patient and genuinely loves teaching the class. It's her passion and it shows when she teaches us the moves. Dancing has now become my passion as well. I always leave the class feeling like I've had an awesome workout!

Aloha, They did an amazing job. It was well worth the money. The dancers arrived on time and it was…read morea hectic day for me. I've been running around preparing everything for our engagement party. I swear everything that day seemed to go wrong (another person tried to take our advanced ordered roast pig, etc etc). Then the Polynesian dancers came to rescue by relaxing me and started the fun luau. They got the groom, uncles, dad to dance on stage as well as me, my mom, aunties, cousins to dance. It was so fun and it was truly a ONCE IN A LIFETIME experience that we will never forget. The family (old & young) still talk about it. The kids were shaking their bums all night long and running around. After the performances, they also didn't rush me at all. We had about 100 people at the party and everyone was able to take pictures. I would totally hire them again! Mahalo!

I was extremely pleased with Nyla's performance at my brother's 40th birthday party. She was…read moreprompt in her responses during the pre-planning, on time for the performance, very sweet and likable, and most importantly, she put on a fantastic show. Her dancing was beautiful, sword balancing act-spectacular, and I loved that she incorporated my brother into the dance. It was hilarious. He gave it his best effort! Her performance was the talk of the town. Highly recommended!

Magnificent! Nyla performed at our winery during the busy Lodi Wine & Chocolate weekend and put on…read morea terrific performance! She arrived early, mesmerized our guests with her beauty and dancing abilities, and was warm and engaging. Throughout the 5 hours for both days, she had most in the room swaying or dancing one on one with her. Her costumes are beautiful and she changed them frequently and even danced with veils and with a sword on her head. We have received nothing but positive feedback about the event and Nyla set the tone. She is a delight!

Just saw the show "the next great Gilbert & Sullivan sing off" and it was HILARIOUS. I don't know…read moreanything about opera but I was still able to follow along with the jokes and story line. The performers were absolutely phenomenal and the modern take on opera was awesome. I'm so glad that I got to attend their performance and I totally recommend!!! Such a great thing to see on the weekend!

The Lyric Theater is right in downtown San Jose, on the same block as the Tech museum. I'm certain…read morenobody who goes to the Tech museum in the day and then the Lyric Theater at night, as the audiences are from opposite ends of the age spectrum! We park at Cityview underground parking on Park street, eat at that greasy spoon Peggy Sues to validate our parking, and walk two blocks to the theater. Not sure if it worth the $7 to put up with those overpriced greasy hamburgers. The temperature at 730pm was 80 outside, and probably an AC induced 65 inside, so cold that I, in my shorts and light tennis shirt, felt like I was in a meat locker! If I had know how cold it was, I could have smuggled in my chicken leftovers from dinner instead of pigging out to eat them all. We discretely raid the candy jar closest to the will call desk, and farthest from the ticket seller, on our way past the restrooms. I stop by for a complimentary calendar, until the desk clerk says a $5 donation would be appreciated, causing me to drop the calendar like it was contaminated with Ebola! The wife stops by the restroom, and so do I, as there are always women lines at intermission, and sometimes mens lines, as there are only 2 toilets, and 3 urinals in the mens room -not much for a theater that seats 300. We have season tickets to the Lyric theater, which shows mainly Gilbert and Sullivan opera type live productions. Gilbert and who? It might as well be the stone age for you young Yelpers! And most of the audience seems so old that they may have been born in the age of G & S! We have season tickets at $100 apiece for 3 shows, while you can get Goldstar discounted tickets for around $20 apiece. Season ticket holders like us get the best seats in the house - I like the center section seats on the aisle. 14 rows, 2 aisles, 10 staggered seats across the orchestra section, with 6 seats on each side, and a separate balcony section. You have to rise to let people pass, as the seating is tight - don't step on my passion flower Birkenstock sandals! And the row in front of you is barely lower than yours, so you don't want to be seated behind some guy with a Frank Sinatra hat that I saw! The young couple in front of us move over one seat, due to a very tall man in the aisle seat. After intermission they are gone -another couple who are not sufficiently cultured to appreciate the finer points of G& S opera, like my wife. I don't even bother to read the subtitles over the top of the stage, but doze off between the musical singing scenes. Well wife, at least I don't snore! We were told that this show, Utopia, has not been performed in Northern California this year, and not in the Lyric theater for the past 20 years. And if my reaction is an indication, it will not be performed here for another 20 years! Once I had extra tickets for Mikado, and gave them to the ex-wife and hubby -yes even my ex-wife has a new hubby -probably one of those mail order grooms! Both of them left at intermission -not their cup of tea, as the stuffy British aristocrats would say! Afterwards you get to meet the actors and actresses in the play -there's me being escorted by 2 British redcoat soldiers to the stockade! The Lyric theater management is trying to expand their membership, and running more traditional plays -The Sound of Music is in March, 2015. And my ex-wife loves Sound of Music. I will give them our extra tickets that come with the season subscription -with my wife's permission of course!

This is a top notch community theatre company that puts on great shows season after season…read more Recently my favorites have been "Singing in the Rain" and "A Little Night Music."Amazing performers and I love that they use a live orchestra too!

Their presentation are consistently high in quality. I look…read moreforward each year to seeing and enjoying their presentations!

Edemia was amazing! From initial request, booking was easy and responsive. She worked with our…read morebudget and was extremely flexible. She arrived on time and had props. Excellent family show and kids loved her. Beautifully dressed. Edemia surpassed our expectations

An amazing and talented belly dancer. The birthday party was amazing and entertaining because of…read moreEdemia. She got everybody, approximately 45 guests, to participate throughout her last two sets. Highly recommended to make any event amazing.

Poor organizers and management…read more They have most adult class. I was in a adult class, the instructor is a very rude act like uneducated person. She does not how to respect people. It is much worse than before since it changed ownership. They change the rule you can do the make up class, the owner always afraid other adult will take more make up classes, treat other like thief. I don't understand why people can stand up this kind of insult? After all there are so many other dancing place where people treat people nice.

My daughter's friend had been attending Yaoyong Dance, since she was three-year's old. They highly…read morerecommend Yaoyong Dance, so we decided to check-it out. We feel so lucky and fortunate to have found this wonderful dance school. My daughter takes Chinese Dance with Ms. Tan. Ms. Tan is an excellent teacher, who supports and encourages the girls in their dancing. We have a dance mom who keeps us, parents informed of costumes, tickets, practice schedules, etc. The dance recitals are very well organized and are held at West Valley College. Flash photography is prohibited during the show because when a flash of a camera goes off and a performer happens to be looking directly at it, they can, and do; sometimes get temporally blinded seriously compromising their ability to see on stage. Yaoyong Dance wants to keep the dancers safe and they do prohibit flash photography during the show. Yaoyong encourages parents to video tape and take photographs during dress rehearsal. This seems perfectly fair and reasonable to me. We have been very happy with Yaoyong Dance for the last three years!!!

I honestly had no idea this theater even existed, but apparently it's attached to Wilcox high…read moreschool. It comes up really fast on your GPS so be careful when you go through the light but you basically turn right into the parking lot. There was not much parking, considering the show was sold out to see the descendants, so I heard some people had to park farther away in the neighborhood and walk in. Once you walk in, there's an open auditorium theater or open area where you could buy snacks and get candid pictures with the cast. As I walked further down the hallway to my seat, I noticed how lit everything was and organized and clean. Everything was set up. The rose were pretty so I'm glad I'm only 5'2" tall, but a 6 foot tall person would probably have some issues sitting in these chairs. This particular production had an issue with their in the second half of the show, but I was sitting close enough. I could still actually hear them sing without their mics on. I'm not too sure how many people this theater seats, but there were a lot and somebody's told me they were sitting in the back yesterday and that's why they got tickets for today's show. They wanted to sit up close! Lol. Production can't wait to see my niece perform next year as they do Alice in Wonderland!

I attended a musical performance here and the acoustics here are wonderful. The 300+ seats are…read morecomfy and slightly elevated so that everyone can get a look at the stage. There is also room for overflow on each side as well as in the back. They have ample parking as well as street parking available.