Brooklyn Dance Lessons - Park Slope/Gowanus

ooked at were very lame/cheesy. Olga over-delivers.

ntroduced to multiple styles and found something that suited us and our song selection. It was a joy!

dance. We plan on stopping by the studio to learn more dances. I HIGHLY recommend Brooklyn Dance Lessons!

per fun and then signed up for private lessons. We have friends who hated their dance lessons at other studios -- for us it was the ultimate stress relief. Whenever we hit a bump with wedding planning -- dance lesson. Whenever something went awry with family -- dance lesson. Olga and Amanda made it so much fun to plan for our first dance. We found ourselves dancing in the park, going over our moves on the subway... in short it was the greatest joy leading up to our wedding. We'd taken lessons with another studio before and didn't have the same experience to say the least. We truly believe that we are better dancers because of Amanda and Olga -- they found ways to work with our strengths and day of we were confident and smiling. They made us look our best and we even impressed a friend or two or three. We can't recommend them enough!

nal, we are two boneheads who can't dance and she made everything super simple, she broke steps down to their basic components and really helped explain the concepts of dancing. Olga was patient and charming; she never once made me feel bad or stupid for not getting the steps right. Ultimately, we wanted something simple and easy, just to make sure we weren't winging it in front of our guests. Olga helped us find the right dance for our song, and it was truly a blast going to her studio! I looked forward to our dance lessons during an otherwise really stressful time. P.S. We didn't want to sign up for a package right away; we wanted to try it out first and see if it was right for us. We ended up doing at least 4 or 5 lessons because Olga and her studio was so fun and helpful! Just get the package.

never thought we could handle with no experience. She is patient and encouraging and always made sure we were comfortable and happy with our progress. Not only was the finished dance something to look forward to on our wedding day, the lessons themselves became the best part of our wedding planning experience. It allowed us to take time for ourselves and have fun, a welcome break from the stresses of wedding planning! We highly recommend Brooklyn Dance Lessons and can't wait to get back in the studio with Olga!

so at home at Brooklyn Dance Lessons that we truly looked forward to our lesson every week - so much so that our wedding is over now, but we're still coming back regularly to learn new steps and practice old ones! Waltz, Foxtrot, Salsa, Rumba, and so many other styles (that I didn't even know existed)!

e music, letting us choose the one we liked best. In just a few lessons we learned enough for a little routine. The lessons were a lot of fun, and they are such nice people! Definitely recommend Brooklyn Dance Lessons to anyone looking to get going quickly, especially if you’re getting married and have no idea what to do for the first dance.

ance. At first, it looked like a nice slow romantic dance. Super cute! I knew my friend was taking some dance lessons, so I wasn't surprised. Then suddenly the music changed, the bride took off the dress and under she had a sparkling Salsa outfit and they started a phenomenal Salsa routine followed by a group salsa dance with some of other guests. I was jaw-dropped. First thing I did when I came back to New York was to book lessons with this dance studio. Happy I did it!

e and our choreography, which Olga custom made for us, was beautiful.

it was perfect. She is an incredible teacher. She has the rare ability to make dancing fun and challenging at the same time. I also found that it is not just about putting a wedding dance together; it actually is great therapy for a couple. I have told so many people that taking dance lessons together was really great for our relationship. When else do you stare into your partner's eyes for an hour all the while working together to learn the moves. Learning to dance together puts you in a vulnerable place where the only solution is working together. pretty cool!

e music, letting us choose the one we liked best. In just a few lessons we were doing the box step with complicated foot work and spins. Definitely recommend Brooklyn Dance Lessons to anyone looking to get going quickly, especially if you’re getting married and have no idea what to do for the first dance 🙂

azing instructor, worked with us to come up with the perfect choreography, and made sure we looked great with every turn and dip! We could not have done our dance without her, were so glad to not be another couple swaying on the dance floor for our first dance, and the whole experience brought us even closer together as we learned how to navigate the moves. We kept going back for more lessons prior to the wedding because we loved Olga so much and plan on revisiting the studio now that we are married for the group nights! 10/10 couldn't recommend enough!

hen initially didn't practice like we should (months out, so much to do). But we had a ton of fun with the dance. And felt great. As we got closer to our wedding we fleshed out our dance, and had an amazing time. Some people had regular tears as we'd do a serious run through at the end of each lesson. They also had a prop "dress" that was a lot of fun. We would watch our video from each lesson a bunch of times. The owner Olga is amazing and creating an incredible studio. You can be a total beginner or just think you know how to dance and have a great time. They mix encouragement and technique in fun lessons progressing through your song. It can be stressful. We had fun practicing in the park and where ever we had space. They can also figure out a routine to anything. Two videos from our friends: * https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dsoQb-1jzOc * https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mbrAdHzVE9Y

ke a great option and a convenient location. We went ahead and purchased the 5 hours of private dance lessons. After meeting with Olga our first time I was already more comfortable. Olga was extremely patient and helpful getting us to a point where the first dance wouldn’t be stressful. By the end of the 5 hours of lessons, thanks to Olga, we had a dance that together we felt very comfortable and confident doing in front of all of the wedding guests. She even instilled the confidence that one of the group dance classes at the studio sounds fun, something I never thought I would say.

so special. Not to mention the built in date-night. Even though the big day is over, we can’t wait to return for more lessons!

veryone was enthusiastic, kind, and had a great sense of humor. They truly went above and beyond all our expectations!

Olga. She was nothing short of friendly, amazing and very patient. She started with the basics and we built something special over each private lesson until we had a perfect choreographed first dance! She was a 5-star instructor and we actually had a lot of fun learning at the same time. I highly recommend this dance studio and Olga if you are interested in learning to dance. We learned the shuffle and Rumba styles but she knows many others as well. I can't wait to book more lessons after our honeymoon. Thank you, Olga, for helping make our wedding extra special, we nailed it!

ggestions right away. I highly recommend Olga for lessons and we also are looking forward to attending one of the group dance nights at the studio!

person, and also really good at helping build muscle memory. She's also just really sweet and encouraging! I wish we lived in New York so we could take lessons with her more frequently- my husband and I have been inspired to learn other types of dance too, now!

of her team prepared us well with some simple choreography that helped two true dance novices with pacing and logistics of a first dance. In the end, we have to admit that we didn't hit every step on the big day, but we came close enough that none of our guests knew the difference :) Thank you for teaching us the moves and giving us the confidence and know-how to improvise a bit when it mattered!

er. Highly Recommended!

eyes. And we have seen other couples she has taught - so we know she’s not just teaching everyone the same dance (lol). We liked our experience so much that we have continued taking lessons. You will not be disappointed if you take lessons with Olga.

horoughly and helped each of us with our individual strengths and weaknesses. The choreography for our dance reflected our personalities and fit our song perfectly. We can't recommend her enough!

er, sees your strong point and weak ones as well and gives suggestions how to improve them. I highly recommend! The studio is tastefully decorated and intimate.

mmend Brooklyn Dance Lessons to anyone!

levels, but we are novices. Her clear explanations and directions allowed us to get through the lessons efficiently with noticeable improvement from week to week. Olga's patience was also very much appreciated. We were naturally stressed by our wedding planning, but Olga kept us on track and focused. Needless to say, our wedding dance was a big success. I would highly recommend Brooklyn Dance Lessons.

end booking her to help you with the most important dance of your life!

We liked her so much that we decided to keep dancing with her and are still taking weekly lessons 2 years later at the amazing studio. We are learning salsa, which was totally out of our comfort zones at first but now I couldn't imagine not having our dance lesson to look forward to and Olga has become a great friend. She is so supportive and is always thinking of new routines for us and new places and events for us to go to to practice. I highly, highly recommend booking BK Dance Lessons for your wedding or just for fun - it is an incredible experience and such a wonderful skill to know how to dance!! A++++++++++

ga is very patient and clearly explains and demonstrates all dance steps. She is incredibly knowledgeable and the dance she created was creative and fun; a combination of rumba and bachata. We were incredibly pleased with our performance and impressed our guests! Lastly, we appreciated Olga’s flexibility scheduling our classes, as two of our classes were not on the same day we were taking the classes. Thank you!

dance to our beachy/jazz song, a low key "club dance" that felt like an easy version of swing, with twists and turns and a dip at the end. It went really well! Everyone loved it! Very, very happy.

e also created a dance for us that was not only perfect for us, but our guests LOVED. Olga is a gem, and for anyone searching for wedding dance lessons, we highly highly recommend. Thank you Olga!!!

ing for (and much more) in Brooklyn Dance Lessons. We purchased a package of 20 dance lessons and our FABULOUS teacher/choreographer, Olga, taught us the basics in foxtrot, swing and rumba before working with us to choreograph the perfect dance. Olga is one of the best dance teachers EVER and is an extremely skilled choreographer. In the end, our dance was beautiful (and SO “us”) and hiring Brooklyn Dance Lessons was one of the best decisions we made. We cannot recommend BDL highly enough!

for our special day. We booked wedding dance lessons with Olga and we couldn't be more than happy with the result! Olga isn't just a stunningly good dancer, but extremely professional and amazing at her job. She helped us finally to came up with OUR SONG and absolutely amazing and fun choreography. We fell in love with the dance and her sense of humor. She is encouraging you and made you feel like you can do anything, despite your lack of experience, which we didn't have at all. She also gave us very helpful advices and tricks. We can not say enough incredible things about her! THANK YOU FROM THE BOTTOM OF OUR HEARTS!!!

y at the reception. Neither of us had ever done any formal dancing before, but Olga got us to a proficient level in a very short time. Besides being a talented teacher, Olga is also very funny, as well as kind, and will make you feel at ease as you begin to dance, no matter your skill or comfort level. Highly recommended!

much!) I had so much fun that I'm still dancing!

An excellent teacher, Olga helped both of us (me especially) get, and look, much better. Even more impressive was the choreography that Olga pulled together. She really paid attention to the styles that we wanted in our two dances, and created a dance that allowed my wife to show off and me to look good. Across all of our interactions, Olga has been a great pleasure to work with. Dancing with her tutelage always felt like a fun, rewarding way to spend time. I can't, in good conscience, recommend anyone else if Olga is available.

r fun cha cha routine for us and everyone was incredibly impressed! She started us with very basic steps, and then a few more intricate ones, and then started putting the steps together to build a routine that looked complicated but was easy for us to follow. All of our guests were incredibly impressed, even my childhood dance teachers!

was able to master any dance. Her way to explain things in so much detail made me feel very comfortable and confident. I'll be happy to take classes there again in the future.

keptical what we could achieve in only two weeks and came out impressed and excited about or first dance. In that short amount of time, we learned multiple dance styles (fox trot, rumba, and bachata) and nailed down a choreographed first dance by Olga. We received so many compliments after the wedding about the dance and honestly had a lot of fun doing it our wedding night. We're definitely glad we decided to do lessons. We highly recommend Brooklyn Dance Lessons! At the first lesson, Olga focused on the basics so that we can start understanding fundamentals such as posture, leading and beats per the dance style. Each lesson she built up from the previous with more and more complex moves. Finally she effortlessly choreographed our dance based on what we were comfortable with and moves that we loved to do. Olga was very patient, fun and thoughtful. We looked forward to each class because we knew we were going to have a good time. Olga also has a very keen ear and eye. She can spot a misstep from a mile away. Suggestion to all future students, definitely practice at home! You learn so much at each class that practice makes the next one so much more fun and productive.

ent instructor at a different dance studio. When I told them what we wanted to do they told me they've taught this dance many times and assured me they could teach it. On our first lesson they asked me if we didn't mind changing it slightly. I knew some of the moves looked really difficult so I didn't mind changing it a little, but wanted it to be as much like the movie as possible. So they taught us a few moves like in the movie, but after awhile we realized most of what they were teaching us was a completely different dance. We decided to find another instructor that would teach us what we really wanted to learn. That's when we found Olga at Brooklyn Dance Lessons. She taught us EXACTLY the dance from the movie, with only changing the final lift at the end (I knew that would be too difficulty to learn). We had so much fun learning the dance with Olga. She knew the dance well and was dedicated to teaching it to us just how they did it in the movie. She even spent hours of her own time outside of our lessons watching youtubes of the dance in the movie to make sure we were doing it just right. She took notes after each lesson to remember what we learned and she had a plan for what we will learn each lesson. She seemed like she truly enjoyed teaching us this dance. At the wedding the dance turned out amazing! our guests couldn't stop raving about it. It was the highlight of the wedding! The only thing I regret is not starting with Olga sooner and wasting time with that other dance studio. I highly recommend Brooklyn Dance Lessons for learning your first wedding dance. It was such a fun experience.

ver expected us to do something, but they made it work, and we looked prepared. But more importantly, we enjoyed doing it! We highly recommend lessons with them!

d a great idea: having a sweet slow rumba that turns into a salsa. That was the winning choice. Our guests' expression went from "that's so sweet" to "What just happened?". It was the highlight of our day, all the hours spent on lessons and practice have probably been the best investment for our wedding.