Great place with very kindness employees and very good company
Ive been dancing at Starlight for almost a year now and absolutely love it here. The instructors and students alike are so talented and friendly. Starlight is a great place to learn to dance and meet new people. I even met my boyfriend here at a salsa social. Thanks, Starlight!
Starlight is awesome. I have learned so much in the past two years there. The teachers are very talented and welcoming. Their socials are always fun and I have met great people there, including my beautiful and very talented girlfriend
I have attended many events here at Starlight Dance Center and have never had an experience short of amazing. The mixture of amateurs who dance like pros, and professionals that are unbelievable always provide a phenomenal experience. I believe the owners and their teachers are truly providing elite services that leave the customer satisfied.
Beautiful ballroom, amazing floor, great food at socials, polite and helpful staff and wonderful owner.
We did enjoy Valentines Day Dance & Dinner party. We dance all night, the music was inspiring and the dance floor spotless. The food was OK...., but we did not expect fancy food to be served in Dance Studio. Thank you Starlight for the beautiful evening.
Beautiful ballroom with excellent dance floor. Probably the best ballroom in the area.
The roof of the dance floor has been leaking for a couple of years during the raining or snowing days, and theres often a bucket on the dance floor. Sometimes its wet around the bucket, due to the water leaking from the roof. It is a health/safety hazard for the customers, especially the elderly, who can trip and fall, leading to serious complications such as fractures, paralysis, or sudden death.
Im updating this review yet again due to a number of factors. They simply have one of the best spaces in northern New Jersey for dancing. The group classes however are a bit mediocre, and the management can be a bit abrasive.
A beautiful dance floor. However I attended the international style dance classes and was totally disappointed. In 4 months I learned only 2 figures. The teacher spent a lot of time talking unnecessarily. The same patterns were repeated each month even though there were the same students in the class. I felt that I wasted my money. There was also no time to practice with music because he spent so much time talking. There was always an uneven amount of leaders to followers and he never asks students to rotate so that everyone can have the opportunity to practice with a partner. Group classes does not require a partner. However, I attended other classes. Andres is a great teacher. I absolutely enjoyed my ballroom and hustle classes. He made difficult patterns seem easy.
The place has great atmosphere. My experience was super great at Starlight dance center . Andres is extremely gifted and I love his patience.
Great place, good instructors. Nice relaxing social atmosphere.
Theres a lot of bad reviews floating around this place, and it generally stems from one reason. They host a lot of kids classes, which can create a heavy love-hate atmosphere. The primary mission of this studio is ballroom dance for adults. Unfortunately, the best instructors here are independent of the studio, which makes them a bit more difficult to track down. It would be nice if they partnered up with the independents a bit more to help someone find the best instructor for themselves as a student.They do have an enormous floor though, and its very well kept - at least their two main rooms. Their smaller latin room off to the side really shouldnt be used for classes. Its in poor shape.
After taking my daughter for 3 consecutive years, we experience the teacher being rude and even i explained why my daughter was absent she got angry at her in front of the entire class.The Secretary/ person in charge or money dues… called me asking why we stopped coming??I explained we had payed for our costume and were ready for the performance, after the teacher being rude my daughter didnt want to perform… Guess what??/ NO ONE CALLED BACK ASKING WHAT HAPPENED OR SAYING SORRY..No money back!! we kept paying for other weeks until contract ended… Now when u see this note make sure you dont believe on pretty faces.. they just want the money, what ever happens there is not their business, you are alone. Just give them the money>>My daughter loved dancing, we have found a new place where they do care .
We attended the Valentines Dinner and Dance Feb 14 2014.and were very dismayed by the rudeness and arrogance of one staff member. She wore a scarf around her neck and took our payment that night. It was supposed to be a buffet . They only had 3 dishes served: pasta, chicken marsala and a small plate of salad for 35 bucks. No drink, not even water was served. Their ad did not even say BYOB. I went for my second plate and this woman, upon seeing me grimaced. She was at the buffet serving but when it was my turn, she quickly left so I murmured, OK, I will serve myself then. Such rudeness !!. Not even worth 20 bucks. We could have gone to other ballroom places with very palatable and adequate servings. Definitely not coming back, and not recommending this to anyone..
I the starlight i love the ladies that dance that dance so well like being cultivated in good times
I like the place i love tango im gaining knowledge about tango i even composed a tango routine.all this in40 lessons.and practice practice practice.check it out
There is something fundamentally wrong with this place. Its all about the money that is quite unfortunate. The kids classes are certainly an afterthought decision, as long as the money comes in, thats all that mattere and that is sad. We were looking fo small ballet class for our child. Classes there are small, 5 to 8 at most. So you would think that more attention would be given to each child. Forget it, after 6 weeks, the intructor still dont know my child name and she dares asking me... whats her name again? sorry !! after 6 weeks!!!! come on now!!!! She comes late pretty often too, not professional at allNow about the recital, you pay $70 for the outfit...and only one parent receives a pass for the recital. I mean, lets be serious here, even at graduations (high school, college etc...) parents and family members are provided a certain number of tickets for free, 2,3,4...is there an assumption that most kids there have single parent!We have a large Italian family proud of their kids that would like to be able to attend this kind of events and well feel as if this is not done right and we are very disappointed by the whole place. Sure, all you care about is making money, but please dont make that obvious. We bring our children there for a learning experience. The whole establishment should put little emphasis on caring about how good the kids are learning the stuff and, if not the case, what is the instructor doing about it to improve the situation. These are small classes and there is no reason why an instructor could not spend a little time on a child needing more attention unless again this whole kids business is an afterthought..to make extra cash. Trust me, lot of people are aware of it..not just me
The owner of the studio is very rude.
Absolutely EXCELLENT !!