About the author

Adriana Cruz

Editor & Dance Instructor, DanceStudios.online
Dance instructor and studio owner. Fourteen years teaching ballet, jazz, and contemporary to kids and adults.

Adriana Cruz has taught dance for fourteen years and run her own studio for the last six, teaching everything from three-year-old creative movement to adult beginner ballet. She knows what a fair class price looks like, where the real costs hide (recital fees, costumes, competition), and how to tell a nurturing studio from a trophy mill. The guides here lead with honesty for parents and dancers, not with a hard sell.

She built DanceStudios.online for both sides of the barre. Parents and adult dancers get straight answers on what classes cost, how to pick a studio, and which style fits. Working studios get a free directory listing so local families can find them instead of a generic class-finder app.

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