Velocity Dance Center Reviews

The kids are super supportive of each other. Great energy.

If you have even a passing interest in dance, I highly recommend taking advantage of any of the 6-week "intro to dance" classes offered here. Very positive and accessible learning environment to dancers of all skill levels. Their website has more info about what's currently offered. At $15/class it is an amazing value for top-tier instruction and socializing.

Their building is very old and lacks sound quality and control. Music is so loud you can hear it from Cal Anderson park, and near by apartments. They play music until 4am on weekends which is a huge drag if you work on weekends. It just proves how selfish people can be as well as disrespectful. And it's less a dance school and more of a club

I took intro to dance : hip hop with Michael O' Neal Jr. Or, to be more specific, 40 minutes of it - enough to realize I don't learn the way he teaches. I want to caveat this that I don't consider myself as being able to dance, and I don't have any "default moves". I described my dancing experience as "barely moving to music - sometimes to the beat." When prompted, I just try to copy people around me for a few minutes at a time and then stop dancing. I don't even know how to process the phrase "Just dance what's inside you" or "just express yourself". I just don't get that idea. I feel like I'm playing a videogame and don't know the moves. I'm not just going to mash buttons. If I'm paying you to show me moves, I'd expect that you'd show me moves before you ask me to play.

After packing into the room like sardines and having us introduce ourselves, he zoomed past what he would consider warm up moves and then got us in a bunch of lines and asked us to improv across the room. Just do what you feel, or something to that effect. BRO I DONT KNOW HOW TO IMPROV THAT'S WHY I HIRED YOU. Why would you give me the test before giving me the material I needed to take the test? I could tell at that point any continued time at Velocity would be counterproductive, and I walked out - never to return.

I was probably the one with about the least dance experience in the room, and to me the class felt like he was teaching dance to people that already knew how to dance. I don't know how he could expect this from actual beginners. I now have to contemplate that it may be impossible to learn how to dance well - maybe it's just something I can't do - because this place didn't even come close to helping.

As a working artist, this is a place I'll always go back to and associate with the Seattle dance community.

This is a great dance studio. I was only there for an audition but the folks in charge really worked quickly and effectively to accommodate everyone get through fast.