Elemental Studios

This dance studio has truly become my second home.It gave me more than a place to dance—it gave me a community, lifelong friendships, and a family that always makes everyone feel welcome. From the moment you walk through the doors, you’re accepted, supported, and encouraged to be yourself. I’m so grateful to be a part of something so special. If you’ve been thinking about dancing or just want to meet incredible people, come try a class. You never know—you might just find your second home too.

I can not recommend Elemental Studios enough! They have all sorts of classes from Twerk, hip-hop, heels, k-pop, contemporary and so much more. They have fundamental classes, beginner, open level, intermediate/advanced. There are people of all levels in every class. It's an extremely non-judgemental environment. I started my journey with them a little over a year ago. I never thought I'd dance again with everything I've been through. All the instructors have been amazing, are supportive. If you've ever thought about doing classes just do it! Step out of your comfort zone!

Elemental Studios has been such an amazing place to dance! The instructors are talented, encouraging, and create such a welcoming environment. Every class is fun, empowering, and makes me excited to come back. I highly recommend it to anyone looking for a supportive and positive dance community.

I found myself overall disappointed with my experience at Elemental Studios. Some pros; It’s a wonderful, clean space. All the employees I spoke to were extremely kind. The instructors can definitely dance. The introductory price is extremely reasonable, I even feel like their packaged class deals are of great value (although I didn’t purchase). There are cubbies for you to place your items within the studios, and there is no time for anyone to be in that area without you also being available, so your stuff is safe even if it is not secured. I signed up for the beginner KPop class, I have no experience dancing other than copying minimal moves from music videos while I’m listening in the car. While I didn’t expect them to teach us the fundamentals, I also didn’t expect that they would choose a difficult choreography. The instructor had difficult remembering each step, walking herself through the choreography before she would teach it to us. She stated that the counts she was giving us as we were learning wouldn’t match up with the song and that we would need to understand the timing of the music within the song (that I had never heard) to understand the timing of the dance. I found myself frustrated and embarrassed that my mind and body weren’t able to translate what she was teaching us. I Google’d after the class to see if maybe I was being too harsh and that this was indeed a beginners choreography, I told myself maybe I’ve chosen to attempt the wrong hobby, but Google affirmed that the choreography is difficult with off-beat timing and is known for being challenging. I’m going to stick to my bedroom YouTube to learn easier choreography for awhile; I’m not advance enough for Elemental, but would like to return when I’m more comfortable dancing in general.

I’ve taken a few classes here, and all of the instructors here always have great energy and skill, but as a complete beginner showing up to a class and already being extremely nervous having people outside the class that weren’t filming or participating in the class just stand there and watch the entire time was extremely nerve wracking. I’ve taken all the recommendations the studio provided for being a true beginner at dancing, but so far all of them have still moved at a pace that I and others have noticed is for dancers with moderate experience or already have the general fundamentals down. The groove fundamentals class I took today had isolations and chest rolls in it. There aren’t classes here that cater to truly new dancers new to movement and rhythm to feel comfortable for fundamentals or venturing into the next stages of beginner classes. Even though the instructor was kind, I couldn’t wait to get home to escape how embarrassed and overwhelmed I felt from the class, and I’ve felt this way in every beginner/fundamentals class I’ve attended here but wanted to keep trying all my options so I just didn’t quit to quit. I’m going to have to stick to youtube for a while to get my bearings and hopefully progress from there to a studio.