Steve Grody’s Downtown Dance Studio

Steve is the best swing dance teacher on the planet.
I’m a perpetual «intermediate level beginner» in that I have taken a lot of introductory dance classes; a few each decade and I’m pretty old. So I’ve racked up quite a bit of experience with different teachers. Unless you are athletic or gifted at dance, many classes can be either frustrating or boring. What often happens is that «you don’t get it» * and you didn’t enjoy the process, to boot. You end up not really being able to do the dancing you wanted to be able to do; the reason you took the class in the first place.
Steve has been reviewed before as a truly great martial arts teacher and it makes sense that his skill in that area carried over into his ability in dance and his ability to teach dance.
My honey and I took just four private lessons from Steve and we feel like we can now cut a rug on the swing dance floor. He taught us just the style *we* wanted to learn even though Steve pretty much knows all the forms of Swing dance. So many dance teachers seem to go into automatic pilot and ‘have their routine” so they don’t adapt at all to the individual student and their abilities and preferences. Steve does not have automatic pilot in his lexicon, besides being very intelligent and entertaining. You will also never feel embarrassed because you are having trouble «getting it».
Gals, if you’d like your guy to be able to dance with you, Steve is the teacher you want. Otherwise your guy may or may not enjoy the class or take to the teacher, and if a guy gets frustrated he may be turned-​off to the idea permanently. Steve is your go-​to can’t-miss teacher.
If you want to do a first dance at a wedding and make the process painless and fun, Steve absolutely is your man.
My sweetie and I do not live in LA, and we will wait to visit LA again to get any further dance instruction since we have tried other teachers and they don’t hold a candle to Steve (who teaches all levels, understands the history and the subtleties of the various form and dances like a movie star himself.)