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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Check out Kintz and Mejia Academy of Ballet in Tysons.  They have an original production, the Little Mermaid, coming up this weekend at George Mason High School.  See it for yourself regarding the rigor of this school:

https://www.kintzmejiaballet.org/performances.html[/quote]

+1!  [/quote]

We drove by this studio today to check out the location.  They are on summer break until next week, so I don’t have anyone there to speak with directly.

[b]Is the only entrance to the studio that very scary outdoor stairwell that looks like a fire escape?  The location and parking area are terrible[/b].[/quote]

DP. I don't have a student at Kintz-Mejia though I know the building it's in (and have been to the theater up that stairwell in the same building many times). We had a student for many years at another ballet school in NOVA. It's fairly common for dance schools to be in locations like the one you saw--older buildings, around the backs of industrial-park type buildings, etc. For years our studio was next to a heating and AC company with trucks all over the parking lot, at basement level directly beneath restaurants complete with cooking smells. Changing space was very tight, but the studios themselves were very well maintained.

Studios tend to operate on narrow margins, so they go wherever there is enough space they can afford and which they'll be allowed to configure and change with sprung floors, mirrors and barres. We've also been at studios with better facilities and much nicer-looking entrances and parking lots, but even those facilities tended to be located around the backs of shopping centers or office parks. Don't let exteriors drive you away if all else is well-run and well-maintained.

I don't know KM but would give them a chance despite the looks of that building and lot; having safe, appropriate sprung floors and decent changing spaces definitely trumps a good-looking exterior. Which, I agree, that building doesn't have. [/quote]

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