Relevé Studios

My fiancé and I came here for lessons for our first dance at our wedding, we were lucky enough to meet Miss. Elena and she was AMAZING! She took two goofy non dancing types and gave us a fun dance that was the highlight of our whole wedding. I also came back and got lessons from her for my father daughter dance and she was so sweet, kind and professional and made our experience such a pleasure. I highly recommend this studio and particularly Elena if you are looking for a choreographed dance even for the most inexperienced people!

Great school ! My daughter is taking classes for about 4 years already, very professional teachers, they do amazing recitals, costumes are beautiful ! Absolutely disagree with Olga K, my daughter is doing just great! Everybody is extremely nice and helpful, and prises are really affordable and not expensive at all! Love this school and highly recommend it! Your kids will absolutely love it!

This is my 6-​year old daughter’s second year doing ballet at Releve. I have always loved the atmosphere of the place. The staff and teachers are very warm and welcoming. As for the students, it’s very inspiring to watch their hard work throughout the year and then to see them perform at the recital.
There is a waiting room where you get to sit and watch your child on a large flat-​screen TV. And the last Saturday of every month is «viewing day» where you get to go inside the classroom and watch :-)
So far my daughter has had Ms. Julie and Ms. Jodi (the owner) as her teachers and they are both excellent with young children. They have just the right amount of patience and discipline while having a fun routine that the kids enjoy.

My daughter has taken 3 different classes here and loved them all. The location is great (and huge!) and parking is ample although a bit of a walk. Their recitals and photographs do cost more than other studios but it’s worth it because Releve always does everything first class. My 4-​yo was entranced through the entire recital production even though it lasted many hours.

5 stars for Releve Studios. I have so many wonderful things to say about Jodi Shilling and Releve. Their studios are so beautiful, spacious, clean and bright. The absolute best dance space I have seen since moving to Los Angeles 10 years ago. From the moment you walk in you can sense the warm yet professional atmosphere set by Jodi and her staff. Via their outreach program Releve is also the in house dance instruction provider to my daughter’s elementary school. Jodi and her top notch staff have given such a great dance foundation and appreciation to all of the kids at her school across all the grades. The student body loves the program and loves all of the teachers. As head of the youth division at a talent agency I always recommend Releve Studios to all of my clients who are looking for dance training and I shall continue to do so for many years to come. Cannot say enough good things!!!

I’ve taken a few of the classes offered at Relevé (Adult Tap, Ballroom, and Hip Hop) and for a white guy with two left feet, I have to say I was excited to find a place that had the patience to teach a slow learner like me. The instructors are great and really know how to communicate and make learning to dance easy and fun. I now how the confidence to go salsa dancing, knowing I’m not going to be stepping on toes. Thanks Relevé!!!

My daughter attended Releve studios for a year, so it is a long enough time to observe, so I can share my thoughts. I am not as excited about the studio as other reviewers. First of all, it doesn’t feel like a family. A welcoming family. Previous studio my daughter went to, parents smiled at each other, talked, receptionist knew everyone, the owner knew everyone! Here receptionist is busy at her computer, parents who go to the studio for a long time chat, others are cut off. Again, I am comparing with my previous experience: there receptionist would ask if you want to sign up for the rehearsal, here nobody bothered to see why I didn’t sign up.
The payment policy doesn’t seem to be fair either: you pay for the month, so if you take a class on Monday (and most holidays are on Monday), then your per class pay is more than if take a class on Tuesday. You cannot make it up. Only if you missed a class, you can make it up.
You cannot see your child, there is a big screen TV in the waiting room, but it is split into four screens for each studio, so the kids are like ants and you have no idea what is going on. There are «viewing days» when you can observe your child last 15 minutes of class, but they are not advertised, so I only found out about it half a year after we started, and since kids are not used to having parents watch them all the time, they often start acting up. I am talking about younger kids, 5 – 6 years old.
So from what I was able to make since I couldn’t really see the teacher, she is focusing more on advanced kids, so the ones who need a bit more attention, more repetition, they get lost. I am like that myself, I can never get choreography from the first time I see it. I need to practice slow several times, but then I do get good at it. My daughter is the same way, so she complained to me every time that she is not sure what to do. I had to go over basic dance moves with her at home. But I am not a professional, I pay money for a professional to teach my daughter!
So now we are at a point where my child doesn’t like ballroom dances anymore. Sad.

Releve Studios is like family/​home. Whether you have been there for years or 3 months, you automatically feel love and passion from the students and instructors…
I started Releve in 2010 and I cannot believe the progress I have made… Not only in dancing, but acting AND singing. You meet such amazing people who give their 100% everyday to the kids. If the owner of the studio hadn’t made Releve I probably wouldn’t have even discover my love for performing.

My grandson is now taking Hip Hop, for the boys, and he is having a great time.
Loves working with AJ and always looks forward to seeing Jodi.
He is very excited about being in the Recital in June and looking forward to all the other things planned for the Boys Hip Hop.
Thank you Releve for always coming up with different dances that includes every age.

This is the second semester for my 2 ½ year old and she loves loves going to her dance classes. Her teachers Jenelle and Katie are amazing.
The only thing I wish they would change is maybe the viewing screens which are really small and I wish they would be more strict on parents actually going in the class with the children because I have noticed it really distracts the little ones.
Other than that its a great environment for kids who love to dance.

With only two years of having my 4 year old daughter attend the ballet program at the Releve Dance Studio I must say I love the expectations they set for the children, it is a wonderful atmosphere & an excellent growing experience. The studio is a happy place, with a warm environment where they can come & develop their gift of dancing. Everyone there is extremely friendly, warm hearted & welcoming. The girls really learn how to dance here; they are pushed just the right amount to make them want to come back every day, & love every minute of it! Going there gives them a chance to be productive with their time, while still doing something that they can enjoy.
The instructors are lovely & really devote their time to making sure that the child is performing at the best of their abilities. Their goal is to make sure your child will grow to be at a fine level of dancing & will devote themselves to it. The instructor makes sure she focuses just enough amount of time on each child to have them advance in the art. They are extremely patient, yet firm on their teaching skills & share their passion of dancing with the children.
When my daughter first began the course she was a bit timid & didn’t feel too confident in herself, but with the help of the instructors she was able to come out of her shell & express herself passionately thru dancing. I have two other children & cannot wait till they are also at the age level to be enlisted as well. If you have you young children that are showing an interest in dancing I would highly recommend you to have them give the class at try. YOU WILL NOT REGRET IT!!!

Releve was a big disappointment for our family. We signed our daughter up for ballet and were very happy when I found out her instructor was actually the owner of the studio. But what we ended up with was an owner who was there maybe half the time, otherwise the had subs or mixed classes together and I don’t even think any instructor even bothered to know her name. The viewing screen in lobby was a joke as you can not see your own child unless they are the one right near camera and even then, you have to be standing up, right at screen to see anything. In 4 months, my daughter learned very little and was never excited to go. I kept her in to try and finish semester and see if it got better, but it kept getting worse. What I concider really bad is when I called to see about getting her out mid-​semester, they were more than happy to let her out and credit me what i already paid. Though I appreciate the convenience, I thought it very strange they didn’t even ask why, or what they could have done. Like they didn’t even care, like we didn’t matter. Total waste of money. Wish we would have tried parks and rec instead!

Releve dance studio is a great place for your child to take dance classes (modern, tap, hip hop, jazz, ballet, etc). The teachers are great in teaching new choreography to the students and give positive feedback. My two daughters take dance classes at Releve and they love it. Great opportunity for child to achieve self esteem, and have a passion for a great art. There are many dance rooms with cameras so you may watch in d lobby on a big screen. Staff is very helpful!

This is a fantastic dance studio. The teachers are all professional dancers, not dancers 20 years past their dancing days. Releve has classes from Ballroom to Hip Hop to Stomp to Ballet to Hula. My kids, and I, are so happy to be a part of this phenomenal dance studio!