I visited City Dance Corps for a drop-in dance class for Beginners Break Dance. I love dancing, but my experience is only in Latin styles and I wanted to mix it up with a cool break dancing class.
The positives:
- Friendly, Attentive Staff
- Lots of space/clean changing rooms
- 2 great dance studios (3rd space not so great)
-Good location (although a bit hard to locate due to some construction)
-Great music selection for the dance class, it was diverse and upbeat and easy to groove to
- I showed up late and everyone was nice to me and didn't make me feel rushed or embarrassed
-Offer tons of classes in many different styles
Negatives:
-HOT!!!! I was sweating without even moving!!! Much, much too hot
-the 3rd, small dance space was so small that the dance move that required a "back kick" resulted in me and another girl getting kicked in the face! Not impressed- the dance instructor should have tweeked the lesson to ditch the kick with so many people in such a small space.
-I assumed it being a drop-in, beginner class, that it would be basic, broken-down steps that anyone could arrive at and join in--- wrong! The instructor kept mentioning 'new people' and 'last week' and 'regulars'. I continued to think: "isn't this a drop-in class, not a registered one?" why was it building off of things from previous weeks? and the pace at which the instructor taught seemed to be for people with some experience, not beginners. The steps were walked through once, put to a beat and then implemented as a group. I didn't understand the terms he was using at all and even when he broke down the steps, he used terms I didn't know and explained rather poorly. He was definitely a skilled dancer, but maybe not as adept at translating that to others.
I found myself very sweaty and very frustrated at the end and just wanted the class to be over.
I will look for break dance classes elsewhere, ones that are truly beginner level. However, I won't write-off City Dance Corps all together- it was a nice facility and they offer a range of drop-in courses that I might try in the future.