Inertia Performing Arts

Greetings,
WE (some dancer friends and me) have some feedback for Inertia Performing Arts dance studio and instructors based on personal experiences and those of some of my dancer friends @ CSU… It’s not going to be pretty. Annnnnndddd LIFFFTTOFFFF!!!
#1 — Dance instructors should begin class on-​time. Not when they want to, or when everyone stops talking, or when they show up. On-​the-​dot, every time. It is insulting and unprofessional to begin a class late. I have attended four different classes at this studio from three different instructors, and each class has started at least five if not 10 minutes late. My friends and I do not pay for 45 or even 55 minutes of instruction (we pay for 60 minutes, FYI), and it is unethical to take money for a full class that you have no intention of delivering.
#2 — Dance instructors should not tolerate conversations or chit chat that interrupts, delays, or otherwise distracts from instruction. The inability to control chatter is a mark of an immature and inept dance instructor. In 5 of the classes my roommates and I have taken, delays caused by casual conversations have totaled upwards of five minutes.
#3 — Studios and instructors should not cancel classes at random. One of the most frustrating experiences has been showing up for class at Inertia only to find out it has been canceled due to sickness, low turnout, laziness, *insert other lame excuse here. A dance studio director should be closely monitoring demand and turnout for classes, and make class offerings based on such. It is illogical and unprofessional to cancel classes one week and not the other, the solution is to simply cancel the class altogether and make alternatives known to customers.
Inertia Performing Arts could potentially offer something unique that other studios or programs (CCB, Dance Department @ CSU) cannot. For example, many of my friends and I have been looking for fun classes to supplement our required dance course load. However, I don’t see how IPA could ever become a professional quality dance studio while some of the aforementioned issues are persisting. It is not surprising to me that IPA has a mediocre reputation among dancers in Fort Collins, and subsequently low turnout for your drop-​in classes.
My four roommates and I have stopped attending dance classes and will no longer purchase class cards because of these issues. I’m assuming this is significant revenue, as we would potentially take class @ IPA 3x/​week (up to 5x/​week in summer). This lost revenue does not include all of the bad publicity each of us spreads about IPA to our dancer friends, because we cannot willingly recommend IPA when we know classes are canceled randomly and dancers receive only 75% of what we pay for.