Radiance School of Ballet

It’s been a year and a few months since I started taking Adult Ballet classes at Radiance, and I’m still loving it. I’m also happy to see that the school has expanded their facilities to include an additional studio. The Saturday morning Adult Ballet class I’ve been taking is taught most often by Lindsey — who is so fun to learn from. From time to time, the class has also been taught by Jill, Rachel and Miranda. Each teacher has a slightly different style, but all of them do a great job. The class atmosphere continues to be warm, friendly and accepting of students at all experience and skill levels. If you’re new to ballet, or newly returning to ballet, you will find the Adult Ballet classes very welcoming, without any intimidation factor. The teachers are great about letting you perform at your own comfort level, while also motivating you to improve your strength, technique and conditioning. Since starting classes here, I’ve noticed a lot of improvement in my own technique. I’m looking forward to seeing what more I can learn from them in the next year.

My 6 yo daughter wanted to take up ballet lessons so we Unilocaled Radiance and gave it a try. I am so thankful to the Unilocalers that recommended this studio. Ms. Lindsey is wonderfully graceful and gives the kids positive feedback and critique. She is great with the Young kids and grabs their attention, making the lesson fun and engaging. The studio is very clean, spacious and a nice studio. My daughter loves dancing here so we are doing another quarter and can’t wait for the recital in the Spring.

Radiance is a great ballet studio. The facility is new, pretty, clean, and has all the equipment and space needed. The method taught is thorough. You can see during the recitals that the adults down to even the 3 year olds have a solid technical foundation. The teachers and owners are all part of a professional troupe, Anastasis Ballet Company. They are amazing athletes and performers in their own right. They are excellent mentors and teachers, patient and encouraging, but with a thorough curriculum. There are classes offered in ballet and tap for preschool through adult, plus an adult ballet style work out class. There is a summer recital and a Christmas performance. My teenage daughter has flourished here over the past year and a half! She loves Miss Lindsey, Miss Jill, Miss Miranda, and Miss Rachel. She has especially loved the chances to perform Cobbler’s Gift and the Messiah ballet with the troupe.

This ballet school is great! We recently switch from Tiffanys dance in Pleasanton. The staff is very friendly and happy. My daughters teacher is great with her large group of 6 year old girls. We can’t wait for the recital in June! I’m trying the adult tap class tonight and I can’t wait!!!

Our daughter has been going to Radiance for a year now and it’s been great. She is 4 years old and absolutely loves going to class. All the teachers there are great, Ms. Jill, Ms. Lindsey and Ms. Miranda, and the kids enjoy the class. Not only that but the studio is beautiful too. It’s not about just learning ballet but it’s also helps with her patience and confidence.

Great ballet school with wonderful professional dance instructors. My daughter has been attending for over a year and I can see how she has developed a lot of confidence! She has already performed in two recitals and looks forward to going to class. The bright and airy studio is an inspiring place for kids to learn and appreciate dance. Thank you Miss Rachel, Lindsay, and Miranda for being so great with all the kids. Highly recommend!

We have only been taking my daughter here for two months now and we are 100% happy with it thus far. The teachers are wonderful and the class structure is just what we were looking for for my 6 year old. The place is clean and bright and I love getting to watch my daughter dance through the «observance windows». They also allow me to bring my other child with me while we wait. The price is wonderful and it’s been totally worth it for her and us! Highly recommend.

My daughter started out with Radiance at the City of Dublin classes and we were very loyal customers for a year. Unfortunately, it just got to be too frustrating to continue going there so we decided to leave. I will say that the teachers Jill and Lindsey are very sweet and caring teachers and they don’t act uppity like you might find other ballet teachers. Also, it seems that this place is for recreational ballet learners — not like a competition geared or performance geared place.
However, their way of teaching is a little bit slow. It was great for a while but I noticed some parents leaving because each week it was the same old thing. They spend a lot of time stretching, 10 – 15 minutes and when they have the students practice, they do it one by one in a line across the room so even in a small class (all their classes are small) the kids are just sitting there goofing off because they are just sitting and waiting. I tried to give the manager feedback before leaving but their response was basically — please direct your concerns to the teacher instead of me. And of course the teacher did not respond (this was all via email). They did not ask for feedback or how could we be better at all. There is no choreographing dances to songs. I remember growing up in dance classes and the entirety of the class went along to a fun song and it was so fun. This is basically a term-​learning class — this is this position — try it… this is that position — try it… and of course with little kids there’s not much attention to perfection which is expected… but basically any old kick or passé is a thumbs up and on to the next kid. I mean this is more than fine for a while but after a while you want to see something come together or some progress.
Also, we were strung along for months on a new location which eventually happened but us parents were very very loyal to continue going and we would have classes canceled or switched around because of enrollment. I was very flexible and understanding but unfortunately they took away the basic creative movement class over the summer and put my daughter in ballet 1 and then they wanted to put her back down in creative movement during the weekday and I work. And when I told them that, it was — well, sorry she’s too young. And after she had had a taste of a higher class, she didn’t want to do creative movement. And when you sign up for a class, if there aren’t enough students they will close the class. In fact, the website shows a full schedule the entire week but currently the majority of those classes are not being held because there is no enrollment. I’m sure they need to build up their clientele by starting with brand new kids but good luck on that! I tried to take my daughter to a make up class for a week that we missed and I checked the schedule online and I figured it’s a basic class, no problem… the doors were locked. No one there. I emailed and they said I should have asked first. So, the schedule online is not the real schedule, people — take note! I told them they should at least mark an asterisk next to it so people know it’s not in session but they don’t take feedback at this place. I’ve seen other people come for classes to try them out and because of enrollment they are putting people of very wide ranging abilities together and then the class ends up too fast for some and too slow for others.
In addition, even if you started out with dublin rec, they require you to pay a registration fee… at first they wanted it every session but then i guess they changed it? But anyways, it’s very unclear and confusing. I thought that a reg fee you pay one time when you register. But not this place. Also, the fee each month is not prorated if there is vacation which there is a lot of, so between sept to dec, most months are 3 week months. So — do your own calculation on the cost there. Reg fee they say is for admin fees… welll — go into their office and see if there is any admin sitting there. There is no admin who runs the place… you slip your check under the door — that’s how it works. And basically they might come in one day as an admin in the event that you did not pay your monthly fee. So they’re basically coming to collect. Anytime I’ve given them feedback, it’s been — well that’s how everyone does it and you have a packet we gave you — did you read it?
The new studio is cute inside. It is in a warehouse and they did a nice molding and paint job in there. But in the dance studio itself, it is quite dark and it’s got a garage door… it’s a converted warehouse… many of the local businesses are converted warehouses so I guess that’s normal. But anyways, the dance studio is not heated as far as we were able to tell…
Hate to give these people a negative review but I guess that’s the only way you can influence people to try harder sometimes.

My daughter was in Ms. Jill’s ballet class several months ago in Dublin community center. We are so glad to hear they have their own studio now. My daughter is so happy to learn ballet from Ms. Jill again! Last Saturday she had her first class in the whole new studio. Ms. Jill recognized my daughter immediately and even remembered her name! She is so great with kids! She is super nice, very patient and always smile! Kids are having lots of fun yet can also learn the basic ballet technique. My daughter has been to ballet classes since 2 and now she is turning 4. I have to say Ms. Jill is the best ballet teacher we have.