About this vendor
Based in Newport, RI, Windrose Choreography helps couples feel confident and at ease for their wedding first dance, without turning it into a ballroom performance or something that feels unlike you. Your first dance should be a meaningful moment, not another thing on your wedding to-do list that keeps you up at night. With Windrose, you’ll feel prepared, relaxed, and ready to enjoy the moment together.
Windrose Choreography is owned and led by Olivia Burnham, who brings a Master’s degree in Dance Anthropology and years of experience helping real couples move naturally and comfortably. You don’t need dance experience, rhythm, or a love of formal dancing—Olivia meets you exactly where you are. Together, you’ll create a first dance that fits your song, your personalities, and your comfort level, whether that means something simple and elegant, playful, dramatic, or quietly confident.
For couples who want a first dance they can actually enjoy (without memorizing complicated steps or feeling on display), Windrose offers a fun, supportive, and judgment-free experience. The focus is on connection, ease, and confidence.
To learn more about pricing and special offers, visit www.windrosecoaching.com and fill out the inquiry form to connect directly with Olivia.
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Business Attributes
- Woman-owned Business
Music Genres
- Bluegrass
- Classical
- Country
- Dance
- Disco
- EDM
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We cannot recommend Olivia enough as a wedding dance instructor! From our very first lesson, she made the entire experience enjoyable and stress-free. Olivia truly meets you where ...
you are—whether you’re looking to learn a few simple moves or want a fully choreographed first dance, she tailors her approach to fit your needs (and your timetable leading up to the wedding) perfectly.
My husband and I started with little to no dance experience, but thanks to Olivia’s patient guidance and expert teaching, we gained the confidence we needed to have so much fun on the dance floor. When our band unexpectedly mixed up the timing of our first dance song, we were able to adapt seamlessly—and our guests had no idea we were ad-libbing!
Olivia is clearly passionate about her work, and immediately put us at ease - she is an exceptional instructor. If you want to feel confident and enjoy every moment of your first dance, I highly recommend Olivia!
My husband and I used Olivia's self paced video tutorial to choreograph our dance. Personally, I was terrified of doing our first dance in front of 130 people! The tutorial series ...
broke down each step in a way that I could learn them and ultimately helped me be so much more confident in dancing in front of everyone and we even added some of the more complicated moves from the video to add in some flair! Thank you Olivia for providing this resource so that we could fit in the lessons on our schedule, build confidence, and have some fun while doing so!
Olivia was an incredible dance instructor. She made choreographing our wedding dance approachable and so much fun. I’ve already recommended her to a friend getting married next yea...
r, and would highly recommend her to anyone else!
We had an amazing experience working with Olivia at Windrose Choreography for our wedding dance! From the very first session, Olivia made us feel completely comfortable and at ease...
. Her teaching style was incredibly thoughtful - she broke down the steps clearly, gave constructive and encouraging feedback, and guided each lesson in a way that helped us build real confidence.
We attended several sessions and even brought in the father of the bride for one lesson and the mother of the groom for another. Olivia was fantastic with everyone, adapting effortlessly to different comfort levels and making each person feel included and supported.
Thanks to Olivia, our first dance felt natural, confident, and truly us. We received SO many compliments on it at the wedding!! She also gave us great guidance on where to cut our songs, which made everything flow perfectly.
We can’t recommend Olivia and Windrose Coaching enough. She was an absolute joy to work with and helped make our wedding day extra special.
Olivia was so amazing every step of the way! My husband and I have no experience with dance and we left her feeling confident and even excited to show off our new moves! It was the...
best experience, and each class felt like a fun little date night!
10/10 highly recommend!
Olivia is hands down the best wedding dance coach we could have asked for!!! 100/10 recommend. She was incredibly kind, patient, and made our wedding dance prep so fun the whole ti...
me. We learned great moves we could use anytime, and in just around a month’s lead time, she helped us plan a fun first dance that looked thoughtful, natural, and engaging for the audience to watch (we transitioned from something slower to something more upbeat). She really helps listen to your style and wishes as a couple, while providing choreography ideas and dancing expertise to help bring your dream dance to life. We loved working with her and recommend her to all of our friends! Thank you, Olivia!!!
Olivia was amazing to work with! She made the experience fun and had us very prepared for our first dance in just a few sessions. When it came to our wedding day we nailed our danc...
e and couldn't have done it without her!
Olivia was incredible! She helped us feel so confident for our first dance. We didn’t want it to feel overly choreographed, so she helped us learn different moves and recommended w...
here we should incorporate them throughout our song. After each lesson, she sent us home with a few moves to learn and took a video so we could reference it when we practiced. She was encouraging and never made us feel silly for an incorrect step. She didn’t force our technique to be perfect, knowing that wasn’t our goal, but suggested slight tweaks here and there that made our moves clean and elegant. After 3 lessons, we had enough moves in our repertoire that we could put them together for a beautiful first dance that felt natural and wasn’t another thing I had to stress about remembering - it all came so effortlessly!
My husband & I engaged Olivia for dance lessons before our son’s wedding.
She had us doing actual moves on our first session and added more interesting steps on our second.
She ...
made it so easy and relaxed for us.
We were able to truly dance much more comfortably than we ever thought we could!
We continue to have fun dancing together at all the weddings we attend, thanks to Olivia @ WindRose Choreography!
Olivia was amazing! She helped us choose our first dance song from a short list of favorites and crafted a semi-choreographed routine that felt natural and fun. With all the stress...
leading up to the wedding, our lessons with her became a safe, calming escape—almost like therapy. She made the whole experience so special, and we’re so grateful.
Olivia was amazing! We reached out to her about two months before our wedding for help planning our wedding dance, and she was incredibly responsive and helpful. We didn't want ful...
l choreography but we still wanted something that looked planned and polished, and she helped us put something together that was just right. She went the extra mile by cutting our song for us so we could practice with the shortened version. I'd recommend Olivia to anyone looking for support for their wedding dance!
Olivia was a wonderful coach for us to use for our wedding day! We did 6 lessons and in that time we went from total novices to having a great time, it was so worth it to have that...
memory of our first dance to share! I recommend Olivia to anyone who will listen!
Working with Olivia Burnham of Windrose Coaching was one of the best decisions we made during our wedding planning. I had always wanted to take dance lessons with my husband, and O...
livia made the entire experience seamless, enjoyable, and stress-free. Despite having no prior dance experience, my husband transformed from a complete beginner into a confident dancer thanks to Olivia’s expertise.
Our weekly lessons quickly became a highlight of the planning process, offering a fun escape from the usual wedding stress. Olivia’s teaching style is encouraging, intuitive, and tailored to your strengths. She thoughtfully incorporated creative elements, like lifts that tied into our cheerleading background, while making sure the choreography reflected us as a couple.
On our wedding day, we performed a mashup of “Two is Better Than One” by Boys Like Girls and Taylor Swift, followed by a surprise switch to “Style.” The crowd’s reaction was priceless—jaws dropped, the entire room started clapping to the beat, and everyone cheered us on. In that moment, we felt fully prepared, confident, and excited to share what we had learned.
Olivia made every step of the process feel approachable and fun, like hanging out with a friend. We are incredibly grateful to her for making our first dance smooth, memorable, and so personal to us. If you're looking for a dance coach who will make learning both meaningful and fun, we highly recommend Windrose Coaching!
Olivia was great to work with! she was extremely accommodating as we tried to squeeze in some lessons before the wedding. It turned into something we looked forward to every week a...
nd something we would even keep doing for fun! You cannot go wrong with working with Olivia :)
Highly recommend for weddings! Olivia was our savior! I set up the lessons after receiving a detailed rundown from Olivia over Zoom. We had a tight timeline leading up to our weddi...
ng and she was super flexible the whole way! My husband was very apprehensive about taking dance lessons and after the first lesson, he actually said “this was fun, let’s do it again!” We really just wanted a few lessons and some basic choreography so we looked natural but still put together during our first dance. Olivia helped us pull together our dance (which, by the way, was to two different songs with completely different beats) in just three lessons all while making us feel confident and still stay true to ourselves! Such a fun time!
Olivia is an AMAZING coach! My wife and I didn’t want a first dance…but I DID want to bust out the Thriller dance and Olivia was totally on board to teach me! She made learning so ...
much fun, took it at my speed, gave me some really great tips, and most importantly - successfully taught me the dance!! Definitely reach out to her for your big day, no matter what type of dance you want to do.
Olivia was over the top as an instructor! It was our first time taking dance lessons together, and we immediately felt comfortable and at ease. It was such a fun experience and we'...
d definitely take lessons again in the future. Olivia is pure joy to be around and quickly becomes a friend to her students. We loved it!
Working with Olivia was the absolute HIGHLIGHT of our wedding planning, and our first dance ended up being the most talked about moment from our wedding! Olivia's professionalism, ...
attention to detail, and sensitivity to our individual dance needs made for some of the most comfortable, entertaining, and worthwhile classes. From the very first moment we stepped into the dance studio, we knew we were in good hands - and major bonus points to Olivia for adding to my wife's dance move repertoire. She has finally retired the finger guns! We couldn't be more grateful for our time spent with Olivia and we will definitely be keeping an eye out for more classes she offers just because they are so fun!
Olivia was fantastic! she completely understood our needs- which was to improve our level of dancing for our son's wedding. At first I thought I was going to have to drag my husban...
d into this so I committed for only 4 lessons. After only the first lesson, my husband said'"let's add another 2 right now" so we actually had 6 great lessons and had so much fun! It also really made our time at the wedding even better. I highly recommend Olivia/Windrose Choreography if you are looking for the best dance coach!
We did remote dance lessons with Olivia and she was incredible to work with and very professional. She helped us create a dance that was our very own and managed to make us look gr...
eat in the process! She was very patient and supportive throughout the process. While learning remotely sounds tough, Olivia made it a breeze! Can't recommend her enough!!
As a slightly older couple, my (now) wife and I spent two years assembling a dream team of vendors for our May 2023 wedding. Olivia Burnham was a key member of that team.
In no t...
ime at all, Olivia got a somewhat reluctant rookie like me to actually take pride in learning a routine - custom choreographed for us by her - for our first dance, and to have fun doing it. How much fun? Enough so that with just two months to go before our big day, I put forth the idea of working on a second number, to be our last dance.
Olivia guided us patiently through countless creative ideas, and whenever we were struggling with a step, she invariably found ways to overcome difficulties, and to shore up our confidence. Our sessions with her became the best part of our week.
Since the wedding, many guests continue telling us that our dances were their favorite part of the day. Thank you, Olivia. You are a terrific dance instructor, a super nice human being, and you have our highest recommendation.
My (now) wife and I signed up for 6-8 lessons with Olivia over the winter before our wedding. We both have very different ways of learning, but one thing we had in common was very ...
little experience dancing. Olivia was amazing at teaching us the basics while not being overly prescriptive. She really tried to put us in a place that looked natural and fit with both our personalities. As we continued to take lessons with Olivia, she made efforts to get to know us outside of the lessons, which only made our lessons better/more customized. We ultimately nailed our first dance despite the band messing up timing/song, which I thought was huge kudos to Olivia for helping us be more "free flowing" during the lessons. Highly recommend Olivia for really any type of dance - she will get to know you and tailor your dance to both your personality & strengths...always such a positive presence
My wife and I hired Olivia for helping my us with our first dance. We aren't so practiced in choreographed dances, so we were glad to have an experienced and patient hand guiding u...
s. We gave her our song ahead of time and when we met up she took us through all the crucial steps for us to be comfortable and confident for our big moment. Thank you so much for making us look so good!
Olivia is an absolute gem! We were unsure of how choreographed we wanted our first dance to be, and she met us exactly where we were, guided us through the process without making u...
s feel awkward, and got us to a point that made us feel comfortable and confident going into it our wedding day, which was such a relief! Would 10/10 work with her again!
Olivia was great! As the groom, I had no idea how to dance at all, and made my soon to be wife come with me to Windrose. Olivia is patient, and works with you orchestrate the per...
fect dance you are looking for. She simplified what can be a stressful learning process, and focused on tailoring our dance moves with different parts of our song. I’d recommend her without hesitation! Our wedding dance was fantastic!
If you want to have a blast with dance lessons leading up to your wedding, book Olivia asap! Olivia choreographed our first dance and father/daughter dances. She was so flexible wi...
th our schedules and choreographed and led our dance lessons all over video call - we live in California and she is on the east coast so wasn’t sure how it would go but it worked out perfectly! She recorded all of our lessons and shared them with us so we could practice in between sessions and was extremely patient with us while learning the choreography. My parents are on the east coast and when I came home to visit, she drove from RI to CT to give my dad and I our lesson in person. We wanted a fun but cute and casual first dance and Olivia choreographed it perfectly to fit us as a couple. She listened and did the same for the father/daughter dance that we also wanted to be fun but goofy. She is truly the best and helped us create unforgettable memories at our wedding - book her and it’ll be the best wedding planning decision you make :)
Olivia at Windrose Choreography is truly wonderful! She made our lessons super fun and enjoyable while also giving us clear, constructive feedback every step of the way. Our dance ...
was AWESOME, thanks to Olivia. We’re so happy and will recommend her to anyone. She’s a truly gifted choreographer, an excellent teacher and just an all around lovely person.
Dancing with Olivia is comfortable, educational, and best of all FUN! We hired her to choreograph our first dance as a couple for our wedding. We knew we wanted to make an entrance...
, had a fun song picked out, but had no idea how to move together on the dance floor. Olivia put us at ease, showing up to our first meeting with champagne and a plan that was both simple to learn and fun to watch, and took the time to initially assess where we both were in our experience and comfort levels with dancing. She was able to teach us her vision, which combined our strengths, and constantly encouraged us to step outside our comfort zones with confidence. She considers the best way to explain different concepts and is able to adapt the choreography while still achieving impressive results! The tips and tricks she shares each session speak to her vast knowledge of dance and the joy she finds in helping others explore the art. Meeting regularly is one part of wedding planning we genuinely look forward to, and we're finding each session we more quickly get into the groove and feel comfortable in our bodies. We can't wait to deliver the show stopping performance on our wedding day!
Olivia did a fantastic job teaching my dad and me our Father Daughter dance for my wedding. Neither of us had a background in dance, but Olivia made it easy for us to learn by brea...
king down each move into simple parts. She was really patient and positive and made the whole experience a lot of fun. After our lessons with Olivia, we were so happy with the results! Our Father Daughter dance was one of the highlights of the wedding. I would highly recommend her for anyone wanting to learn to dance for an event or just for fun!
Olivia worked with my husband and me for our first dance which was to Bob Marley's "Is this love?" We worked remotely and in person, and the choreography was perfect for our skill...
level and for the song. Having that made the experience so much more enjoyable and gave us such confidence when the time came to dance. I'd highly recommend Olivia for any and all dance needs at your wedding!
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5 Ayrault St., Apt 2, Newport, RI | Newport, RI & Online Lessons
Windrose Choreography