Just Dance It

I don’t think you can find a better dance studio in all of Miami! All of the dance instructors are so friendly, knowledgeable and passionate about what they do. You can see that they genuinely care about each and every student and that their main focus is on providing an excellent dance program that is also fun. And it’s really wonderful to see how the students love to interact with the instructors and soak up all of their knowledge and experience. And that is all due to the owner and director of Just Dance It!
I have known the Director, Alina Lanza for over 25 years and she truly pours her heart and soul into her work with the students and this studio. She is very compassionate person that wants her students to succeed and reach their full potential. Alina truly exemplifies what it is to be a caring, loyal and loving human being, dance teacher, director and business owner. Which is why it’s no surprise that she has been so successful in a town saturated with dance studios for almost 20 years. Because Just Dance It! is and always will be Miami’s Premier Dance School!

I truly recommend this dance studio. My 8 year old daughter is on her 2^nd year of her many more years to come participating with JDI. As a mother I am more than satisfied and very happy to have enrolled my daughter in this fun and energetic dance environment. Owner/​dance instructor Alina is a very nice and caring person. Even through some tough emotional and sick times my daughter has always said yes to dance class. It’s just to show the positive and joyful times that are spent while at the studio.

We are new to the Just Dance It Family, yes I said FAMILY because that’s what it feels like since my Daughter started there. I looked to JDI to help teach my Daughter to be the an incredible dancer and know it takes discipline to get there. I love the no nonsense approach that is taken. This studio is not for the parent who thinks dance class is a babysitting service. They have made my Daughter a more mature and disciplined child. She has flourished so much in less than 6 months it’s really amazing. She just doesn’t stop asking about dance class, dance camp, all her teachers, and of course Toni and Alina. JDI has definitely created a passion in my daughter that wasn’t there before. I couldn’t have found a better place to be! Thank you all for everything you all do day in and day out.

I would give this place 0 stars if I could! This place is horrible! My daughter came here years ago and I never had a chance to review this place until I finally opened an account on Unilocal.Basically if you are not with the «popular» group you are a nothing here and never get any attention. Oh and the owner and staff do not have any people skills whatsoever. Avoid this place!

JDI is a home. I danced there for about 10 years and then started teaching there. The teachers are all sweet and very dedicated. The students learn to bond and confide in their teachers. I love just dance it like family. I love the staff and I love the kids! I’ve always been treated well and respected. No matter what people say I will always love JDI!

After reading the 6÷25÷13 review, I felt compelled to respond to what is an obvious malicious and bad intended effort to ruin the reputation of this studio, and even worse that of its owners. Dance has become quite popular and there is a studio «sprouting» on every corner, so I can see how someone desperate may desire to ruin a reputable studio that has been around for so many years. I have two daughters on their second year at JDI and I do not take their instruction lightly. before JDI my daughters had some dance experience but I felt they had talent and could do more. I took the time to thoroughly research multiple dance studios, visiting them, interviewing the owners, and enrolled my daughters in different summer dance camps before I made my final selection. It’s funny but what sealed the deal for me was attending their end of year recital! It was exciting to see a professionally set up recital, where all the girls wore beautiful costumes and where dancers at all levels came together in a magnificent production! And, yes I was extremely impressed with all the «competition team» members, especially the owner’s daughter, and never for one minute did I think «Oh my she is in so many numbers,» rather I thought «Wow! this child is amazing!». This show is what helped me make the final decision to have my girls attend JDI. In the short time that my girls have been in JDI, they have made incredible progress! Not only is the studio family oriented and well organized, but it has provided my girls with the motivation that has driven them to do better all the time. What’s wonderful about this studio is that you can choose to have your child attend regular dance lessons and still make great improvement, as JDI caters to recreational dancing at every level, but it also gives more advanced dancers the opportunity of belonging to their competitive team where they receive more intense instruction for those who desire it. As far as their end of year recital is concerned, the procedure for buying tickets is the same everywhere and I personally found the tickets more than fairly priced at $ 25.00, considering their recital is held at the beautiful Miami Dade County Auditorium, and not at some high school theater like most studios have them! I find it incredible that someone would attack the owner’s «extremely talented» 13 year old daughter for appearing on the team performances! All of the team members danced their respective group numbers! This beautiful child is an inspiration to all the girls not because she is the owner’s daughter! but because she gives it all when she steps onto that dance floor and happens to be an amazing dancer! She is a role model for the girls and am proud to say that she has even choreographed dance numbers for my girls! It pains me to see unfair reviews about a place where I have seen so many girls, including my own, enjoy every single day doing what they love and not wanting to go home at the end of the day! That in itself should say it all!
P. S.
If concerned about the cost, do your research well, because for the quality of instruction, the expertise, and the beautiful studio you get a great deal!

Just dance it is such an awfully ran business! My experience at this dance studio was terrible. It initially went well, until recital time came around. It then became apparent that they were primarily concerned with exploiting parents for money to be able to put on this amazing show for only the owner’s daughter. Out of 40 acts, her daughter was in at least half of them, always dressed differently than the rest of the dancers, being highlighted each and every time that she appeared on stage in a so called ‘team’… Really? There was even a solo performed *entirely* by the daughter. WOW! Can you say… umm ridiculous! It is obvious that her mother lives vicariously through the 13-​year-​old girl and will go to great lengths to make her daughter the focus of any performance. In addition, not only do parents have to pay a fee for being in the show, and the costume, etc. but also each and every person that attends has to buy a ticket from the owner directly. But wait! to obtain the tickets these people had parents line up outside the studio, in order to get a number at 8am during the week on a work day, and then had them come back later at 3:30, on the same day to purchase them. If that’s not bad enough, even if you’re one of the first in line, the closest seat that you can purchase is row number 6 because the first 5 rows of each section are reserved especially for the owner’s ‘friends and family’. So the parents, who are really the ones paying up the a** for kids to perform in this so called show, basically get the leftover seats. Parents pay to put on this amazing show in which the owner’s daughter appears basically by herself in most acts. What a freaking joke this place is! Oh yeah! And the parking at the recital, the «Lanza» family ensured their name was advertised in their «reserved» parking section, forcing parents with their kids dressed up to walk all the way across the parking lot. I also purchased a recital program (yet another expense) that was supposed to have pictures of the girls in it, etc., but most girls were in there once at most while her daughter filled the pages of the thing. We initially believed they had given us the family picture book by mistake instead of the recital program lol. Oh yeah, if you want a keepsake of the performance you better make sure you purchase the $ 55 dvd that the owner sells because they do not allow parents to take video or pictures of their kids at the recital. Lastly, parents DO NOT trust these individuals to care for your child, especially younger ones!!! They treated my daughter like garbage and swept it under the rug when I addressed it, down playing it, like nothing had ever happened. These people are vicious and care only about one thing… your money! They do not provide a good instruction for the children and kids do not learn anything here. Please, please look elsewhere! Find a reputable place that takes the time to care for your children as they help them learn. This place is sure to discourage your child from dancing as well as yourself. Actually, a more appropriate name for this place would be «Just gimme your money!» … nothing but a JOKE!
PS: There’s a filtered review similar to mine about this business from about 6 months ago, and it is 100% legit. Please read it! I’m not sure why Unilocal insists on filtering *MAINLY* negative reviews about a business, thought that was the whole point of this thing anyway?

I’ve had our daughter attend for the past 2 years and we really liked her previous teacher, however, when we got really meet the staff, the owner, her mom and her aunt are very rude all they think about its making money. Trust me we are not the only ones complaining about their customer service.
Picture this, to buy tickets for go to your own daughters christmas show, you have to go on a weekday at 7am to get a ticket, then present this same ticket at 3pm to be able to buy the tickets.
Ticket for ticket? what!!! just does not make sense, oh and God forbid you say anything about it to the staff, they answered we are doing you a favor for you to buy the tickets early…
Doing us the favor??? im sorry but who is paying for the tickets, the monthly subscription, for the uniforms, the dance dresses, the video of the christmas show, the registration fee… etc…
I usually try not to post anything negative about a particular business unless its really worth my time.
The class times are really inconvenient for a working parent, they are at 3pm on the weekdays yes there are Saturday classes but what about if you cannot make it because you are out of town.
This place is not being ran properly, it really needs a make over from top to bottom which i doubt it will be possible, wish them the best but i will not be recommending this place.
The Chrismas show was not for the children instead was for the owners daughter to perform, out of 20 dances she was in about 12 of them.