Great reputation with quality technique. Good disciplined approach with traditional values.read more

My daughter danced at Hoffman for 7 years. Three of which were on the Competition Team. In that…read moretime we had several difficulties with the owner. She does not want any parental involvement and has a sign in the studio to this effect. She is often rude, unprofessional, biased and does not follow her own rules with regard to student behavior. She violates her own contracts and has been known to play favorites with families when it suits her needs. Perhaps the most troubling is that she is unable to accept critism of any kind and has been known to tell parents who object to "take their money elsewhere". There is a relatively high staff turnover. I have personally seen the owner make students cry and single them out for non dance related issues. After seven years, our relationship was terminated via email. The terms of our contract we're not honored and the owner refused to meet. Please, do your child a favor and skip the negative drama that this studio is filled with. You will be happy you did.

My Daughter is taking Dance there, overall, I am really impressed at how helpful the Teacher is,…read morethe Girls were nice and Welcoming, which helped my Daughter fit in really well. They incorporate a bit of Gymnastics into it which makes even better.

From the owner: Artistic Dance Scene strives to offer the very best in dance training while inspiring grace,…read moreconfidence, self-respect, teamwork, and leadership. Students of all ages can learn new dance styles, master dance steps, burn energy, get a workout and share a sport with others. Artistic Dance Scene provides a fun, safe and rewarding environment for dancers to grow and shine as individuals. Students will come to think of the studio as their "second home" where they have the freedom to express themselves while creating friendships and learning skills that will last a lifetime.

The school is extremely unprofessional, and unorganized. My daughter was enrolled with them for 3…read moreyears and has done multiple classes with them. They wanted me to move my daughter down a level but I am unable to take her that day. So the teacher called me and was extremely rude and even said "if I have to put in the effort to come to work then you can put in the effort to take your daughter to class". After this call my daughter told me "how can I return if the teacher doesn't want me in her class". Dance should be done for the love of dance, the children do their best and practice because they love it , they don't need to feel humiliated to belittled. The teachers should be better educated on how to deal with children and have as good of a understanding for child psychology as they do for dance.

This is a first class dance school! My daughters have been dancing here for 5 years now. The ballet…read moreprogram is ranked top 5 in Canada. Miss Bell is loved by all her students, which have succeeded to scholarships at the National Ballet in Winnepeg and Julliard in NY. The year end performance is also a spectacular showing of talent which the kids perform full ballet ensembles and musicals at the Living Arts Centre. Some performances include Swan Lake, Mama Mia and Glee.

This is a really good studio, the teachers here a very caring and help you become the best dancer…read moreyou can possibly be.

If your looking for a dance school that is run with good ethics this is not the place for your…read morechild!! Incident Jan 27th: My daughter completes her dance class and is getting dressed to go home... but wait...her running shoes are missing!!! I go into that change room looked in the lost and found... cubbies...corners... other girls bags..NOTHING. At this point I am disgusted!! Now my daughter is leaving barefoot to get to the car?? Are you serious?? My husband calls a dance teacher who is the owners Barry's daughter..as useful as a brick wall! I expressed my frustration and include it is ridiculous that you pay hundreds of dollars and now how to worry about petty theft.... seriously! ! I also included this is why I prefer my child to bring her personals with her to class so they are safe. She wanted to know why am I getting mad at her...does she want me to give my daughter her shoes so she can get home?? Matter of fact..YES!!! The owner Barry could care less..until I posted on their site a review outlining our experience and suggesting whom ever took the shoes bring them back and teach their daughter about stealing. Low and behold my husband gets a call after my post 3 hrs later indicating they found my daughters shoes in the corner?!?! The same corner I looked in myself?!?! What a miracle... and that my daughter can leave their school !!! This place has no integrity. Come to find out through other parents who also have children that go their that theft is a regular thing and they don't do much about it! So I guess it must be very annoying for someone like me to speak up about the principal of things. Barry did refund my husband for costume fees..However I will be pursuing the rest of my fees via small claims court.

My granddaughter is 6 years old and has wanted to dance for the past couple of years. I just signed…read moreher up classes think that began this fall. She is absolutely loving it. The staff is all very friendly and knowledgeable. I have watched everyone from the owner to the teachers interact with these kids. There is clearly I love of the art in all of the staff. They are incredibly patient especially with the younger children. My granddaughter has gained a lot of confidence over the past couple of months

ZPAC is a wonderful performing arts center if you're looking somewhere to sing, dance, or act! I…read morehave been dancing with Stacy since I was 6 years old and I just loved it so much, I never left! The studio is such a loving family environment that it truly became my second home. The staff has always been the most kind, helping and caring for their students. I wouldn't be the woman I am today if it wasn't for ZPAC

Let me take a moment to tell you about this amazing woman and her 2 side kicks. My daughter had…read morestruggled with bad influences in her life years ago and she was pulled from her old studio. Then we heard about ZPAC. Best parenting decision ever made to enroll her here. Stacy Zawadzki-Janusz has encouraged, challenged, and pushed justice to be her very best self and beyond. She pushes accountability and self esteem. When Justice thinks she can't do something, Stacy says yes you can. Her 2 teachers that also work there have done the same. They have been encouraging and sometimes strict when needed. They have been sounding boards when she is having a hard time. I can not thank them enough for everything they have done for my daughter. They treat us like family and that studio has become like a second home for my girl. I love them all dearly and am so proud to be part of the ZPAC-Stacy Zawadzki's Performing Arts Center family. Thank you Stacy and Marcia and Lena for all the hard work you put into shaping these young ladies into young women. I am forever grateful.

Possibly the worst place to send your child for a dance education. I danced here for 3 and a half…read moreyears, 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!!!!

From the owner: We are METTS Dance and we are in our thirteenth year of providing children's dance classes in West…read moreSeneca, NY as well as Buffalo, NY and Orchard Park, NY. We provide the following dance classes in our West Seneca Studio: Tap Dance, Ballet, Jazz, Acro, Lyrical, Contemporary, and Hip Hop

I started taking an adult tap class here ..for something to do in our terrible winter. I hadn't…read moretapped in over 20 years. I love this class. Miss Patty is the best. It is s great way to spend a week night. It's fun, upbeat, and overall a great time.

So proud and honored to begin our 41st season! Much love and…read morerespect, Patty Neal