Schwimmer’s The Dance Center

Buddy Schwimmer is the nicest man you will ever meet! He is always trying to add more classes, make the experience better for the kids! The price is so good! My kid takes up to 18 classes a month for the unlimited price! She is taking classes we could have never afforded before and loving them!
To me, this is the best studio in Redlands. The best faculty and location too!

The Dance Center, in both its current and previous incarnation, was my home for five years. Buddy, Karly, Chris, Victoria, Benji, Laurie and the people that came before and after them are spectacular teachers. The instruction is world class, and the whole atmosphere makes you feel like it’s your family. Even though I don’t actively take classes here anymore, I still stop in and catch up at times. I wholeheartedly recommend this studio. They teach champions, and have absolutely fantastic classes for kids and adults alike. In particular, I recommend the West Coast Swing classes. You needn’t bring a partner, and you’ll have the opportunity to dance and socialize. There are classes for every skill level, and I participated in many of them myself.

This is a nice clean studio with 5 studios. They offer bellydance classes with Lara Zorn on Wednesdays from 7−8pm. Such a great teacher I love her class. Hope you can make it to one of her classes.

I like the dance teacher, Carly, who seems to be very patient with the kids. A while back when my daughter took ballet/​tap there, I expressed how they need to have more seating and reconfigure the room so that parents can view their kids more easily without the sofa in the way right in front of the viewing window, but apparently not only do the owners NOT want parents to see their kids but one, one of the teachers of the older kids class came out and yelled and berated the parents waiting in the room saying that we are not to get any chairs from their room to use for parents in the waiting room, calling us «disrespectful” — literally parents and their waiting children are sitting on the ground because there’s not enough seating! there’s enough seating right now for only about 4 – 5 parents with the rest of the approximately 10 kids’ parents not including their little ones expected to sit on the ground! Week after week we come to that studio to be expected to sit for an hour on their floors and that’s not disrespectful? A woman working there said that the owner purposely does this in hopes that parents would just drop off their kids and leave. All the parents in the room were talking about this, appalled at this expectation. Not only did most of the parents not feel comfortable doing that, not only due to the kids young ages, shoes changes– they need help, but it’s really their perogative to stay. If they can’t accomodate parents with enough seating, then they really should get a larger studio or be limiting the number of students they take at a time. It was unprofessional of that teacher to yell at the parents that way and as customers we should be treated with more respect. Amendment to review: I do see in the above photo that they have removed the big sofa and replaced with more chairs which will seat more people, and removed the big coffee table. Let’s hope now all parents and siblings can now be seated. However I don’t know if the professionalism has changed at all.

Buddy’s West Coast Swing and Nightclub 2-​Step workshops in Santa Rosa this past year, (2013), were amazing and I would love to take from him again at his studio! He truly is the «King of West Coast Swing.»

This place is HUGE. Lovely facility, very nice staff.
Although they have a large client base of children and teens, I have found several very good adult classes for myself in jazz, ballet, tap, and hip-​hop.
Buddy’s West Coast Swing classes are great– you never have to bring a partner, people are paired randomly and switch often. Buddy is the première instructor for West Coast Swing and he is a patient, thorough teacher.
Since I planned to attend several classes a week, I chose the unlimited payment plan, which is $ 150 for the month. It was a great value for me.
You pretty much have to pick up a class schedule in person, I can’t find an active website for this studio.