Possibly the worst place to send your child for a dance education. I danced here for 3 and a half years, and took every available class and I got nothing good out of it. What I did learn from the classes was: incorrect posture, wrong positions of the feet, wrong arms, the wrong way to turn and how to use the wrong muscles. For about 20-30 in the beginning of class we would all sit on the floor and gossip about other people, talk about the latest fashion trends and movies and one time while my class was sitting on the floor talking about nonsense I got up and used the barre to stretch my legs and after 5 minutes of me stretching the owner Miss Chris said "okay girls we have to stop talking now because Ashley wants to dance and she looks like she's getting mad" I was mad. I had no friends at this studio and they took my parents thousands of dollars and I got absolutely nothing put of it. This studio is over priced by the way, they want about $50 per month for a one hour class once a week and that rate DOES NOT go down for the more classes you take. They want $75 per class for a costume which at most places charge $50-$60 at most which only costs them about $40- or less. They use cheap costumes and pocket your money. The owner Miss Chris and her husband are very rude. Her husband parks his blue mustang in the front parking spot right by the door, which I think should be reserved for paying customers. Miss Chris has said very nasty things to me which stick in my head till this day. During my time at METTS we went to one competition. I asked if I could compete my ballet solo and she looked at me straight in the face and said "don't expect to win" I ended up in 3rd place for my ballet division which I was very pleased with seeing how I basically used YouTube to teach myself ballet. Another time I asked her since she doesn't really offer ballet if there were any places she recommended me to go. Her response was "you're not good enough to take ballet anywhere else, those girls have been doing ballet since they were young, you won't fit in any where else" then I wanted to start pointe work and miss Chris said to me " do you really want to ruin your feet?" I guess because there was me and two other young girls in one ballet class, the only one ballet class the whole studio offers, she and the ballet teacher Shannon are not qualified to teach. While I was in this ballet class In my last year at metts, I purposely sickled my foot and wanted to see if the teacher Shannon noticed. She didn't. All she said was "good job" like she always does to everyone even if they don't do it perfectly and they need help. Maybe because Shannon didn't care if her students do good or not or maybe she is unqualified to teach dance? Chris is unqualified too. Her choreography is repetitive and sucks, the acro teacher Kate is incredibly unqualified, she used to cheerlead In high school and is best friends with the owner so the owner Chris thinks Kate is qualified enough to teach a dance class. I can literally go on and on forever about this place. I was very displeased with my experience here, and wrote my review on Facebook, hours later the owner and teachers contacted me via email and text message THREATENING ME to take the review down. They found a way to hide the reviews all together. This place is so sickening and unprofessional, it's really a disgrace to the dance community. Bottom line, don't sign your child up here!!!! read more
