Tiffany’s Dance Academy

The attitude of the people here is really bad and if I had have my kids exposed to this nonsense I’d think twice !!
The lady venessa is a sass queen agreed but not needed that attitude specially when your a paying customer
Sorry Tiffany your making rethink about continuing your class !
Even though I didn’t have this to face at Pleasanton but I think you need to get a check on this !
You don’t close doors on people’s faces and you definitely don’t tell them oh we sent a email that your not allowed in here !! Yes I Understand it’s daddy daughter dance but instead of being rude if all you said was if you don’t mind we want to keep it a surprise for you. How difficult is it ??
So now 45 mins of wait time watching how they work here. Hope there is anything better here now !

I love this school. Miss Amanda is awesome she works with the younger girls and knows how to grab their attention. Definitely recommend.

Christmas show dance rehearsal

The good — Great Instructors.
The Bad — Poor Business practices.

I was recently visiting family in Livermore and was blown away by my two nieces performance at their dance recital. Amazing! But perhaps I shouldn’t have been surprised as my nieces are always raving about their dance classes every time we talk or Skype. It’s all they want to talk about. It was also nice to finally put a face to this Tiffany lady that they talk about incessantly. She couldn’t have been nicer.
Finding things you love in life is great and I’m happy my nieces have found such a thing in dance and Tiffany’s Dance Academy. But what I like even more is that they’ve also gained so much confidence in themselves. It’s a wonderful thing to watch.

We started at Tiffany’s in August, and was off to an okay start. They have a strict color-​coded dress code for practice (all pink; c’mon, the kid’s three), so okay, I shelved the outfits we already had (hand-​me-​downs) and went along with it.
About two months ago, the original teacher left the class, and we got the New Girl. Y’know, the one that calls them kicks instead of the proper dance term the first teacher used. Oh, and the desk girl has left, and she was about the only one who seemed to «get» helping fix things, like costumes.
Yeah, the costumes. I was on the fence for a recital for a toddler, I mean, she’s in a class of two, only her some days and rarely three or more. Very rare. So, bought the costume, and padded the measurements slightly to account for my daughter tending to grow tall, fast. Her sizes were in the cusp, and apparently the costume service chose to round down. The (no longer there) desk girl was helpful, called the costume place, and on speaker I could hear them tell her they had another one «sitting right here.» That was WEEKS ago, and still no replacement costume.
And come to learn if we want to watch her dance, well, that’s another $ 14.25 per adult, including the $ 1.75 inconvenience fee. Plus, unless it’s just that poorly worded on their ticket sale site, she needs a ticket, too — seriously? At this point, we’ll be pulling the plug the moment she walks off the stage… I’d do it now, but I’m embarrassed at how much the (3 – 4 minutes?) on stage have already cost, and I don’t want to throw that away (y’know, since it’s all non-​refundable).

I love everything about this studio! It is so welcoming and adorable in its design. I saw Tiffany working with the little girls — and she is amazing! I honestly found her techniques very creative, and I loved all the unique music selections she uses. We used to go to Capitol Dance academy, which we dropped… it doesn’t even come close to Tiffany’s Dance academy. I’d highly recommend this place to any family looking for quality dance lessons.

My daughter took dance here a few months back. She started pretty enthusiastically but soon lost interest and didn’t want to go back. However, for this, I can not blame the dance school. I did feel that this is a business operated for pure profit, students and parents second. The secretary was completely useless at the Pleasanton location. She spent more time making sure her day’s outfit was right than answering my questions. It seems like the business was so busy that nobody could explain to me how to order a recital outfit for my daughter. It took me many phone calls before I was able to speak to the sole person in the whole operation who knew anything about recital outfits. I would have given them one lonely star if not for Ms. Bonny, my daughter’s teacher who I thought was really good as what she does.

I agree with the reviewer before me. My daughter started in August (end) and had her recital this June … well guess what? The children did not learn their steps. Hmmm what were they learning all those classes?
This place is all about what they can take from you. We did a Saturday class, which cost $ 58 monthly. Then there was the costume for the recital, which we already paid for and received by Janaury (I thought to myself gotta stop feeding my daughter or she won’t fit into it LOL). Oh yeah and there are late fees for getting the costume late. And if there is a problem with the costume there is a $ 25 charge.
There was also a DVD sold to show the moves and I think that’s when I realized how sexual the routine was. My daughter is not even 4!!! WOW, I hated to watch her practice, and the skimpy dress.
OK, so we got the costume. The photoshoot was before the dress rehearsal, which kinda confuses me, because we had the hair piece put on differently and different lipstick colors … obviously confused parents. Anyways, we survived the photoshoot which is pretty much how much more money they can suck out of you.
We had the dress rehearsal and the teacher didn’t even bother correcting the outfits, she would only do it if asked. WEIRD!
Then the last 2 classes, our teacher was too busy to be there with the children and they got a new teacher, who had zero control over the children.
The recital: I was a backstage mom. OH yeah you have to buy tickets for a minimum of $ 50something per family. Anyways, I was a backstage mom cause I honestly didn’t trust to leave my daughter alone.
WHY DID I PUT UP WITH ALL THIS YOU ASK???
Well money was spent already and I felt bad to waste it. I also didn’t see most of what I described as clearly until the last 2 months or so.
AM I RE_​ENROLLING MY DAUGHTER?
NO!!! I am currently looking for another dance place which actually acknowledges that dance at this age is a fun activity, which should stay at that.

How does this person stay in business? I guess that there is a huge portion of the population out there that thinks:
It is important to dress your three-​year old up like a street-​walker, and it is AOK to get robbed blind while being instructed how to do so.