Best Dance Studios in Birmingham

Linda Dobbins Dance caters to individuals and families throughout the Birmingham area, offering clients various competitive and recreational dance lessons. Its instructors teach classes focusing on different dance styles, such as tap, jazz, hip hop, and ballet. Clients in groups of at least four people interested in recreational dance lessons can also customize their class, from genre to schedule. Birmingham Magazine recognized the mother-daughter duo Linda and Anne Marie Dobbins as one of the best dance trainers in the local area.

Birmingham Dance Theatre, Inc. is a Vestavia business that has been serving students for over 53 years. The theater offers dance classes in ballet, hip hop, hip hop for boys, contemporary, lyrical, tap, acrobatics, and classes for pre-school children ages two to four. Birmingham Dance Theatre, Inc. also offers party packages which are two hours long for up to 11 children, and include 45 minutes of dance instruction, birthday cake, paper goods, birthday candles, party favors, and after-party clean-up. The other package does not include the birthday cake or other birthday goods. The business also offers summer camps and a parents club.

Corky Bell School of Dance is an Alabaster business that has four locations and has been teaching students for over 50 years. The studio offers beginner, intermediate, and advanced instruction to all ages. Classes include pointe, ballet, jazz, tap, creative movement, and gymnastics. Corky Bell School of Dance also conducts workshops in ballroom dancing, singing, pageant preparation, and drama. Private lessons are available. Parents are able to watch lessons on closed circuit TV.

Dance Et Cetera is a Helena business that provides classes for dancers three years of age and up. Classes include ballet, pointe, jazz, contemporary, hip-hop, tap, cheernastics, tumbling, and SWAG. Dance Et Cetera also offers boys-only tumbling and hip hop classes. Adult classes include Pilates, Zumba, cardio core, hip-hop, and tap. Dance Et Cetera has an A+ rating from the Better Business Bureau.

Dance South Studio is a Chelsea business that has been serving students in Shelby County and surrounding areas for over 27 years. The facility teaches beginner, intermediate, and advanced students in clogging, dance conditioning, tap, ballet, hip hop, lyrical/contemporary, dance technique, jazz, as well as dance acrobatics and gymnastics. Dance South Studio also offers private dance lessons, many summer camps, and recitals. The facility offers three dance rooms that have marley flooring and sprung floors. Parents appreciate the encouraging teachers and the atmosphere.

Dr. Dance Studio, Inc. is a Birmingham business that provides private and group lessons. The business offers social ballroom dancing lessons in the salsa, waltz, foxtrot, swing, tango, and slow dance. Dr. Dance Studio, Inc. also offers showcase ballroom dancing and competitive ballroom dancing classes. Owner Kimberly Smith has over 34 years of dance instruction experience and she is a Championship Adjudicator. Steve Hadley has over 49 years of dance instruction experience and he is a WDSF Adjudicator. The staff is made up of certified teachers and judges with the World DanceSport Federation, the United States Imperial Society of Teachers of Dancing, USA Dance, and the North American Dance Teachers Association.

Miss Kelley’s School of Dance is a Trussville business that has two studio locations and has been serving students for over 32 years. The studios have surround sound systems, full-length mirrors, ballet barres, and sprung flooring. Classes include tap, pointe, ballet, hip hop, lyrical, danceline prep, jazz, clogging, tumbling/cheernastics, color guard, baton, pageant training, piano, and voice. Miss Kelley’s School of Dance also offers recitals. Parents appreciate the helpful, professional, and patient teachers.

Ms. Tiffany’s Dance is a Homewood business that has been teaching students for over nine years. The studio provides private lessons to dancers nine years of age and older in lyrical, hip hop, tap, jazz, ballet, dance team prep, and adult hip hop aerobics. Ms. Tiffany’s Dance also offers classes to two or three students. Group classes are also available which are good for bachelorette parties, family gatherings, and performance or fitness groups. Founder and owner Tiffany Davis has been dancing since the age of four. She studied dance at Birmingham-Southern College. Her choreographed piece won a choreography award at the Honors Day award ceremony in 2007.

Steeple Arts Academy of Dance is a Mountain Brook business that has been serving students of all ages for over 80 years. Classes include pre ballet, ballet/tap, ballet/jazz and hip hop, tap/jazz and hip hop, pointe, ballet, teen tap, teen ballet, high stepper jazz, hip hop and jazz, ballet and jazz for adults, and ballroom for adults. Steeple Arts Academy of Dance also offers choreography services, rehearsal space, event space, and private lessons. Director Deanny Coates has learned and taught all dance styles and studied with different dance masters. She became director when her mother retired over 23 years ago.

The Pointe Dance Arts is a Hoover business that provides dance instruction for children and adults. The students travel to different cities to learn and go to dance conventions. Choreographers and master teachers come to teach workshops every year. Classes The Pointe Dance Arts offers include different levels of tap, hip hop, ballet, jazz, and dance classes for toddlers. The facility also offers beginning modern, turns and leaps technique, endurance conditioning, and summer camps. The Pointe Dance Arts has five large dance rooms that have sprung floors. There is an observation area for parents in which they can watch lessons on the closed circuit television. Students appreciate their work ethic, the atmosphere, and the enjoyable classes.