Fred Astaire Dance Studios of Durham and Raleigh

4702 Garrett Road, Durham, NC

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Do you feel nervous about dancing in front of an audience? Do you want to do more than sway side to side for three minutes? Surprise your guests with a special first dance in a fun, relaxed environment! From simple to spectacular, we provide everything from basic lessons to full choreography.

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4.8

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8 reviews

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11/25/2018 • Claire T

We LOVE this studio! Yuliya and Constantine are GREAT!! They worked on a beautiful tango for us for our first dance and it came out PERFECT! We did a LOT of rehearsals and lessons can be a bit expensive, but it was SO worth it to see everyone’s shocked faces when we hit the dance floor! We knew this was an investment in ourselves and we had talked about lessons before so we had budgeted for it. It became our date night during the week and we are going to keep it up!

7/08/2017 • Morgen S

Definitely! We did 10 lessons over 2-3 months because we're horrible dancers. Yuliya was awesome to work with, made adjustments to suit our style and comfort, gave advice and support, and was just fun. The week of the wedding we were so stressed, but when we went in for our last lesson we felt a hundred times better. More importantly, though, we nailed the dance at our wedding and everyone loved it. Our other friends are now planning on doing a dance for their wedding because everyone enjoyed ours so much. Absolutely worth it and a lot of fun to do with your partner!

8/11/2015 •

Our instructor choreographed an entire dance to a special song for us for our first dance. He was very patient with us while still making sure we got a lot done per lesson. We also learned a few other moves there for use at the rehearsal dinner and reception. Highly recommended and even last minute...we only went 6 times in 1 month and were able to make it happen!

5/29/2015 • Morgan S

We got a consultation groupon to go learn a few things but wound up going back a couple times. Our instructor Hakob was great and choreographed a nice dance to our song. We wowed our guests! Never thought we would be the couple to do a choreographed dance but we're glad we did. I highly recommend giving it a shot.

1/23/2011 •

Our guest were impressed, especially my brother!! We have the most amazing pictures of our guests watching us dance!! We worked with Ranco he was wonderful to work with. My husband even felt comfortable dancing with him, he respected personal space. Only part we didn't like was the pressure to continue coming back. Not from the dance instructor but from the manager. As much as we would love to continue it is not in our monthly budget as newly weds

11/30/2010 • Alisane F

We weren't able to afford to take dance lessons like we wanted to, but had already scoped out this studio. They were friendly, and didn't seem snooty like some. They also didn't make us feel pressured into anything while talking with them. I felt safe that they would help us get into the swing of things easily!

11/02/2010 • Lindsay R

We took a "sampler" lesson (set of 3) and had so much fun. The instructors were great and worked well with all types of learners. Great way to have fun together in the middle of all of the wedding planning.

8/27/2007 • Karen H

He was inexpensive.;You get what you pay for. We decided this was an area to save money on and ended up regretting that. You could not understand anything he said on the microphone (such as intrdocuing us, opening the buffet, etc). He also played my father daughter dance song within 5 songs of my dance with my dad.