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A First Dance To Remember
Visionary Productions, LLC offers wedding dance lessons in Seattle, WA, managed by professional ballroom instructors and choreographers. Working with couples to discover their signature style, the studio provides one-on-one teaching to get the rhythm flowing and inspire creativity.
They can teach you many wedding dance choreography, including American and Latin ballroom, which includes Foxtrot, Lindy Swing, Hustle, Rumba, Waltz, Salsa, Argentine Tango, and Cha-Cha. Some other types of dances they also do are House, Hip hop, Afro-Cuban and Caribbean dance. What's more, you can attend their organized events and group classes to begin your dancing journey.
If you would like to find out more about what this business can do for you, don't hesitate to reach out.
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- Hispanic or Latinx-owned Business
Music Genres
- African
- Arabic
- Bluegrass
- Bollywood
- Caribbean
- Celtic
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Ernesto and Gabriella received glowing reviews for their choreography and dance instruction for weddings. Couples appreciated their patience, creativity, and ability to make the learning process enjoyable and stress-free. Many highlighted how their performances became unforgettable highlights of their wedding day, with guests being impressed by the choreographed dances. The instructors were commended for helping couples feel confident and comfortable on the dance floor, even with limited prior dance experience. Overall, reviewers highly recommended Ernesto and Gabriella for personalized and engaging wedding dance lessons.Review photos
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Ernesto and Gabriella were excellent instructors! We did not have any prior dance experience but they worked with us to come up with an unforgettable dance routine. Our friends and family were truly impressed by our dance and it was one of the greatest highlights of our wedding. Highly recommend!
Ernesto and Gabrielle were wonderful teachers for our wedding dance. My husband and I were very hesitant about performing, but they helped us gain confidence and adjusted the choreography as we went along for our comfort. This ended up being my husband's favorite part of the wedding planning process and that's a credit to them! Highly recommend.
Ernesto and Gabriella were fantastic! We are by no means fantastic dancers and at the end of the first dance everyone was wildly impressed by our choreographed dance. We couldn’t have asked for a better duo to help make our big day that much better. We will be referring all our friends and family to this amazing duo!
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Ernesto and Gabriella are both amazing instructors. They were very helpful in preparing us for our first dance together at our wedding. They're both kind and patient. I felt very comfortable working with both of them! Highly recommend!
Ernesto & Gabrielle are amazing choreographers! They helped us choreograph two dances-one for our destination wedding (which was a full 3 minute number) and one for our reception. They are such a phenomenal team and both bring so much creativity and passion into their work. They were so patient and fun to work with and cheered us on throughout the whole process. Both dances went over so well and our family and friends were very impressed by our new dance moves. Thank you both for everything and being a part of our special day! 💗
Ernesto & Gabrielle were the BEST!! My husband was somewhat hesitant to take dance lessons, but Ernesto & Gabrielle made the experience so fun and their choreography was such a hit at the wedding. They made our first dance playful, rotation and overall unforgettable! They even did a short lesson for my Father Daughter Dance. We cannot recommend them enough!
Ernesto and Gabrielle are amazing! We had 8 lessons before our wedding and felt so at ease on the dance floor. WE were both very nervous about our first dance, and had very limited experience with partner dances. Ernesto and Gabrielle listen to us, taught with grace and understanding, and met us at our level. We can honestly say that those lessons were our absolute favorite part of wedding planning! A+++
We had a great time taking dance lessons with Ernesto! We immediately felt comfortable with him and confident that he understood our vision for our first dance. It is clear he knows a lot of different dance styles, and his knowledge and creativity helped us put together our dance with ease. He gave us kind and helpful feedback to really perfect it, and instilled confidence in us leading up to our big day. He also worked with us on a pretty short timeline of 4 weeks. We're so grateful for the experience, our guests loved our dance, and we'll return for more lessons in the future!
Ernesto is truly incredible! My fiancé and I had a wonderful experience with Visionary Productions. We took 12 lessons and learned a beautiful traditional ballroom dance for our wedding day. Ernesto made us feel comfortable and relaxed with every new move and really helped us to blossom in our dance over the course of a few months. Truly grateful to have worked from such an amazing instructor. 10/10 would recommend!
What an incredible experience! We worked with Ernesto to create a personalized dance for our wedding. He was outstanding, ensuring we were both comfortable and confident with the dance movements. All we had to do was provide our chosen song, and Ernesto took care of choreographing everything from start to finish. Fast forward to last week: we nailed our first dance! Planning a wedding can be stressful, but our dance lessons were a needed escape—more like weekly date nights than a chore. I highly recommend Ernesto and his team if you're looking for a personalized dance for your wedding. You won’t regret it!
Ernesto was the best!! My husband and I wanted a choreographed first dance for our wedding and he delivered! I am an outgoing person an my husband is a little more reserved and was apprehensive about the first dance. Ernesto made us both feel comfortable and confident throughout the entire process. He created an environment where we could laugh at our selves when we felt silly during lessons, be serious when we needed to be, and always excited for our next lesson. He was very flexible with his schedule and ensured that we got the right amount of lessons in before our big day so that we felt 100% confident performing the day of the wedding. I am a little extra and shared that I wanted to push our dancing abilities by adding a lift and other moves that were a little more challenging and unique. ALL of our 100 guests the day of our wedding were so impressed with our dance! It was definitely a highlight of our planning experience, and the day of the wedding for my husband and I. If you are on the fence about whether or not you want to do a choreographed first dance I would recommend getting lessons with Ernesto! We had quite a few friends that got married this year, some of those couples did a choreographed first dance as well. They all had lovely dances and speaking to them about their experiences with their instructors, I realized just how lucky we were to have found Ernesto. He really took time to learn about us and what our goals were for the dance and created a beautiful dance that we will have forever. He even helped us select our first dance song when we were between two songs. I really had such a fun and lovely experience with him and can't speak highly enough about him as an instructor!
Ernesto was SO fun to work with. He helped my husband and I come up with an epic choreographed dance for our first dance and it went incredibly well. We got many compliments on our performance and our crowd was loving it. Now my husband and I want to take more classes with Ernesto, since it was such a fun experience. Ernesto is also very chill and accommodating of schedules and body limitations (like injuries). He's also reliable - he was always on time and ready to go.
My wife and I found Ernesto online and we’re so glad we did. He choreographed a fantastic first dance for us that exactly suited us and the song we chose. The classes themselves were really fun and Ernesto made us feel great about ourselves despite neither of us having any dance experience.
He’s kind, professional, supportive, and creative. We recommend him whole-heartedly as a dance instructor, whether you are preparing for your wedding or just looking for a fun couple’s activity.
My wife and I still run through the dance choreography from time to time to see if we remember it, and it always makes us smile.
Highly, highly recommended.
Ernesto was truly incredible! Our first dance was an ansolute HIT. We wanted our dance to be upbeat and get the night started, and he choreo'd it perfectly. The classes were fun and challenging, and allowed us to start our first dance off on the right foot.
We have enjoyed his class so much that we will sign up for a couples dance class with him in the future, just for fun. Highly recommend to anyone thinking of it!
We took about 8 sessions with Ernesto/Visionary Productions. Each session we made measurable progress on our dance and the final product came out to be something that was a perfect match to my wife and I's personalities. Ernest provided a friendly and constructive environment. Highly recommend for anyone interested in a choreographed wedding dance. We had no experience and our dance turned out excellent!!
We hired Ernesto to help us create a new fun first dance where it still fit the Bollywood-Classic Style!
He made us comfortable and really broadened our vision, it was super fun to learn and we have this choreo for life.
If you want to take any fun classes or get a custom choreo Visionary Productions are the people to connect with! Incredible and responsive!
10/10 would recommend. Ernesto is great! If you're looking for a instructor for your wedding and or for a night out he's the guy to choose!
I was hesitant about doing dance lesson, however, my wife insisted. And to be honest, it was actually fun! A good date night!
Great job, Ernesto!
This was a great experience and they worked with us to make sure we had enough practice before our wedding day.
Ernesto is a miracle worker. We started off just taking a trial dance class. We’d originally figured we’d do a subtle sway for our song. Within that trial, Ernesto was able to show us a vision of our dance, and made us realize we could actually learn the skills needed to do something excellent. We had so much fun with our classes - Ernesto is fun, creative, patient, and thorough. The poor guy had to listen to our first dance song ad nauseam without a complaint! He was able to take two very basic dancers and pull together a fabulous and doable choreography- and we surprised all our guests at the wedding, including our parents and close friends. Definitely worth it - not only did it have purpose, but we had fun: it turned into feeling like a date vs another wedding task.
Ernesto was SO awesome to work with. He was very hands-on, specific, had great attention to detail, and most importantly, made my (now) husband and I feel so easy and calm for our first dance. Ernesto took our music, choreographed the entire dance, and helped us make it look and feel wonderful. Ernesto was even gracious and understanding with us when we had to postpone a lesson due to me getting sick. I really enjoyed working with Ernesto, his prices were very fair, and I highly recommend. I cannot wait for the photos!
Currently taking private Salsa lessons with Arianna, and we can not speak highly enough about her. She is an amazing teacher and dancer. Incredibly patient and observant, she always seems to know how to adjust her teaching style to ensure that we are learning the proper steps. Every class is a pleasure, and so much fun!
Response from the Vendor on 12/09/2019
Thank you so kindly for your words. We enjoy having you and Arianna has nothing but great things to say!
Our instructor customized our dance to fit our exact desires and made us feel confident and comfortable with every step. A wonderful experience.
Response from the Vendor on 12/09/2019
Awesome! Appreciate having you.
Amazing instructors. They made my wedding date epic and magical. Highly Recommended!
Response from the Vendor on 12/09/2019
Happy to bring you so much joy CC!
We LOVED taking classes with Arianna! We wanted to do something really original for our first dance at our wedding- a dramatic but still fun ballroom dance and then the "routine" from Friends. Arianna choreographed an original dance for us, and then learned and taught us the routine. She was so patient with us the whole time. My husband went from thinking he could never do it to saying "that was so easy!" We hope to be able to take more classes with her just for fun next year. If you're looking for fun, relaxed, but successful dance classes, we couldn't recommend Arianna more.
Response from the Vendor on 11/19/2019
Thank you! I had so much fun teaching you and your husband, plus the Friends routine is to date the most exciting wedding concept I've had the pleasure of teaching. Looking forward to seeing you more at our studio in the future! -Arianna xoxo
My fiancé and I have taken 2 classes already and we absolutely love our teacher Arianna ! She’s so sweet, full of patience and created the most perfect unique dance to the songs we wanted.
So excited to keep learning our wedding dance !
Response from the Vendor on 11/07/2019
Thank you! Delighted that you're enjoying your experience.
Arianna and Ernesto were great instructors when my husband and I decided to get some help before our big day!! They instantly made us feel comfortable and turned every lesson into an enjoyable experience! They were accommodating and made sure we left the studio feeling confident! We live in New Jersey yet still made the effort to get to our lesson in Astoria every week - that says a lot about how well Ernesto and Arianna teach. I would recommend their assistance for any private dance or even suggest joining their classes for fun!
Response from the Vendor on 11/06/2019
Thank you so much. It was a joy and a pleasure teaching you both. Appreciate the kind words!
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6600 1st Ave, Seattle, WA | WA
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I started teaching in early 2003 freelancing, traveling and performing. Inspired by dance and the arts, I started 39th Avenue Arts N Events in my native Queens NY as a booking space and private dance studio. Thanks to a wonderful staff and support from my associate Rob, we have grown. The Art & Dance Project division was created more than 2 years ago where we specialize in Wedding Dance, Ballroom, Latin, Ballet, Contemporary, etc. Today we are under Visionary Productions LLC and expanded to Seattle WA. Cheers!
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