Unique Teaching Style

Most students, who come through our door simply want to be able to get out there and DANCE!!! We've got the moves and the know-how to make that happen, using our unique teaching method, which has been tried and true for over fifty years. We understand that you don’t want to watch other people dance when you go out to that wedding, or when you go on that cruise. Likewise, we don’t want you to sit there watching, because we know how much more fun it is to be the one dancing. Not only are we happy to be teaching dance, but we are excited to see the progress of each of our students as they become confident social dancers.

The Fred Astaire Dance Studios use a unique teaching system called interrelated system of teaching combining three different types of lessons in one program for the student to get the most benefit and fastest rate of development possible. Each lesson type individually helps the student master certain aspects of his dancing, but only in their combination they will lead to produce a well rounded social dancer.

Group Lessons
are more mechanical in their approach and designed to convey step knowledge. They will help you to expand in your variety of steps in each dance and further more they will introduce you to the feeling of dancing with different partners. You can attend them with or without a partner. The skills you will develop are balance (since you will be doing all the steps also without a partner) plus leading & following (since you might be switching partners).

Private Lessons
are designed to address your individual "movement problems" and get you in touch with your own body, the music and your partner on a "feeling level". In the beginning stages of your dancing we recommend that you take at least a few private lessons before you attend your first group class. The skills you will develop are technique and finesse with your movement.