Do not enroll your children at En Pointe Performing Arts Academy, Inc. I had two children who were excited about dance until they spent a school year with En Pointe. Every aspect of our experience has been a disappointment. There is a complete lack of communication between the dance academy and the parents. As parents, we are not permitted to watch our children dance and no information is provided to us regarding music or choreography, making it impossible to help our children prepare for the end-of-year recital. At no point during the whole year did I hear how my children were doing in class. In fact, the only communication I did receive in the course of the year were notices of additional fees we were going to be charged. When the recital did roll around, both the rehearsal and the recital itself were a disorganized and understaffed mess. The sweet and talented children that attend this dance studio deserve better.
When it came to fees, the larger fees were laid out for you up front but every time we turned around our card was charged with another last-minute incidental. Very little warning was given about these extraneous fees. Everything was an opportunity for the studio to make another buck, right down to charging to attend your child's end-of-year recital. Only the balcony seats were complimentary. If you didn't want to sit in the nose-bleed section it was going to charge you between $15 and $25 extra per seat, on top of the already high recital fees we paid for months earlier. At the time we paid our recital fees, no mention was made of seat fees.
Before the recital and before writing this review, I did contact the dance studio and let them know I was unsatisfied. Their response was that I didn't know what I was talking about because I was not a professional dancer myself and that their methods would all make sense when I saw how amazing the recital was. When I mentioned my concern about all the extra expenses I was told that if I could not afford the fees, my children didn't need to dance there. With treatment like that I will absolutely be finding a different dance studio for my children next year, if I can convince them to give dance another chance after this appalling experience. Do yourself a favor and avoid this studio. There are other dance studios in Nocatee and Ponte Vedra with amazing reviews. read more