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Our experienced instructors have been teaching wedding couples for over 20 years. We can guide you every step of the way, by helping you choose a song and teaching you simple and elegant moves or choreography to your song. Group and private lessons are available. Ask about our Wedding Packages!
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4.3
out of 5.06 reviews
My wife and I have been taking weekly private couples lessons with Suzanne for over two years, and have been thoroughly impressed. When we first took dance lessons over 25 years a...
go, we thought our instructor was great. But after working with Suzanne we see what a truly gifted teacher can offer. She quickly figures out what we are doing wrong and offers good suggestions on how to fix mistakes. She doesn't just teach the motions of a "step" but goes into the body position, balance and technique that make it exceptional. Suzanne is patient when we repeat mistakes or demonstrate "fish memory," and employs creative teaching techniques- when one approach doesn't resonate, she quickly changes tack to find one that does. She is very personable, professional and courteous, with a quick wit and sense of humor. We have a blast and laugh through each lesson. We highly recommend Suzanne Hamby to anyone wishing to begin learning ballroom dancing or improve dance technique.
My husband and I recently completed a package of dance lessons at the Hamby Ballroom Dance Studio. We adored our instructor, Dick, who was patient, kind, and made us laugh, all whi...
ch helped us relax and learn quickly over the course of seven lessons. We recommend learning the American foxtrot! Our wedding dance was a success. Thank you, Dick and Suzanne.
Best wishes,
Whitney & Alex
I had taken several dance classes there and spent most of my precious time WATCHING Maureen and Brian catering to a couple there that had taken several lessons before. I also watch...
ed in utter disbelief and dismay Maureen fooling around with the female of this couple. They were dancing together having fun doing advanced and unrelated dance moves too much of the time. They had spent an inappropriately long time talking about unrelated topics (clothes, etc!) while I stood in disbelief and sadness that I wasn't learning the dance moves because the teachers were focusing on people that had spent more money there over time. *** It was like being at a dance and watching with envy wanting to dance like the people dancing were dancing. Hello?? That is why I took these lessons!!***
When I had written Suzanne Hamby to complain- and tell her how much I would love to learn these steps-and how the teachers were just not spending an appropriate and effective amount of time teaching me- she wrote back "You are a newcomer to the Sunday classes. Scott and Lindsay have been coming for years and are now quite good friends with Brian & Maureen. Since Scott and Lindsay have taken these classes so many times in the past, Brian and Maureen show them some advanced technique and arm styling to keep them interested. Otherwise the classes would be a bit too basic for them"
Is this any way to teach?? By showing more favoritism towards people that have spent more money and practically ignoring a newcomer?? Maybe I too, would've spent more money (I had already spent quite a bit- taking the 6 week classes over twice!) if I had been learning and the teaching was more effective and appropriate!
My fiance and I have loved our lessons at Hamby! Brian and Maureen are excellent instructors and have made our lessons one of our most enjoyed activity of the week. They are great ...
at what they do and love passing on their knowledge with patience and funny analogies to help you understand. We can't wait to see our families reaction and we plan on returning after the wedding to continue working on our moves!
Loved, loved, loved working with Brian and Maureen. They were so patient with our ineptness and so eager to make our goals happen. Just fabulous people to work with!
I had learned social ballroom dancing in college and dreamed of doing a Viennese Waltz for our wedding dance. My husband played soccer but had never danced and had gotten really fr...
ustrated any time I tried to teach him anything. Several months before the wedding, we took Suzanne Hamby's advanced beginner ballroom dance sequence, then several additional private lessons at her home studio. He was able to learn quickly and not be mad at me. Ms. Hamby teaches sequences in her class that allow beginners to learn quickly and develop confidence in leading more than just the basic step. In our private lessons, we were able to loosely choreograph an entrance and several spins and other variations to break up the basic step. She worked with us to develop both the skills and a plan to help my husband lead us through the dance. At the wedding, my husband was really nervous about dancing but it went beautifully. The only very minor negative is that Suzanne Hamby comes from a competitive ballroom background and some of her work on arm positions/body carriage isn't really that important to a couple at their wedding. She's a great teacher and all of the guys in her class had fun in spite of themselves. If you can drag your fiance there, I'm sure it'll be a worthwhile investment and some good bonding time. At the very least, you can laugh together about your dancing abilities and still come away with some steps to make your first dance more than just a slow shuffle.
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25 Harvard St, Waltham, MA
Hamby Ballroom Dance Studios