Dushor Ballroom Dance Studios

5 stars of course! Best teachers, best spacious ballroom dance floor!
The AC and heating both exactly right for the seasons. Feels like family to be there. All the teachers and many of the students have become our dear friends. We take private lessons 3 days per week, and 2 group lessons per week, for the past year. Originally we started with 1 private lesson per week but soon were hooked.
We just signed up for another series of 25 private lessons and are sure we will be going the rest of our lives. Dancing is fun exercise too! We both have lost inches off our waists! And the cardio has lowered our blood pressure too!
They gave us good tips on which type dancing shoes to buy. Smooth and Latin for him and sexy, strappy for me. So far we have been too shy to participate in a dance recital. But now that we have mastered many bronze steps for rumba, fox trot, etc. it may be time to show off for our family and friends! Ooh and excuse to buy a pretty dance dress, in smaller size thanks to losing 10 lbs in past year!
Every teenager should be required to learn the Social grace of ballroom dancing! We have seen high school boys at Dushor doing Cha-​Cha to help them with football skills. Sent by their brilliant coach! Dushor also has hearing-​impaired students who are just amazing dancers!
Their parties are fun, both for couples and singles! So inspiring to see the teachers and students do dance exhibitions. The Christmas party and recent party for Alina were both amazing. Fabulous food and chance to show off our twinkle toes!
If you will be getting married or attending a wedding or any important dinner/​dance event then you need to brush up on your Fox Trot, Waltz, Salsa and Swing! You might even lose weight too!
Go to Dushor! Have fun! Burn calories! Meet new friends! Strengthen your heart!
All at VERY REASONABLE COST! Dushor is 5 stars in every way!

I love DuShor. We use it for our Red Hot Blues n BBQ dance exchange, and it’s a great vibe. Those paper star lanterns really make it feel comfortable. Also, the A.C. is high-​powered! Perfect for sweating dancers. :)

Du Shor Dance Studio is a very pleasant place to take ballroom lessons. The space is very large and the floor is a beautiful setting on which to dance. My boyfriend and I have taken several classes there under three separate instructors. Two of them we found to be very good; they assessed their students’ abilities quickly and adapted the class to meet the needs of the students. The third instructor we had never really wowed me, but mostly because we were less advanced than the other student in the class so we just felt like a third wheel a lot of the time.
I think the biggest problem is that the classes don’t really seem to fill up very well, so there can be an awkwardly small number of people in class. On the one hand, it is nice to have an almost-​private lesson as a couple; on the other hand we are often at a very different level from the other dancers (in one direction or the other) and therefore feel like we’re not getting a complete lesson or as much attention as we need. This isn’t really their fault but perhaps there should be a better division between the levels of classes offered.
It can be nice that they cater the class to the students who show up, but it also means that there is no real lesson plan in advance a lot of the time. While there are benefits to this style, I personally prefer having an opportunity to work on making a cohesive dance and learning how to dance more smoothly off the cuff with my partner. The classes here are taught in a more clunky, one-​step-​at-​a-​time format with very little advice on how to craft a dance partnership. Learning specific moves is definitely important, but I would love for there to be a bit more balance between the two.
We will certainly be back to take more classes, as we do enjoy the place, the instructors, and the people. But I think with a few improvements they could be doing even better.

Great venue. I can’t really say anything about the staff since we usually rent the whole place for dance parties, but the facility is great and its right across the street from a diner so you can recharge your batteries for more dancingl.

Great Place for dancing, the people really care about u as an individual :)

The atmosphere at this studio has changed dramatically over the last couple of years. They are friendly and inviting and have created a community that really caters to the social dancers of the community. It is a great night out for me and my husband to go to dinner and take a dance class or go to one of their social parties. The studio really tries to bring people together in an environment where learning is fun and the community of students grows all the time. There are all age ranges of students so people in their 20’s dance along side people in their 40’s and 50’s and even older. People remember how fun it was to move to music and wiggle and as they say at DuShor — Just dance!!! If you want a fun night out … trying dancing in Bethesda at DuShor!