Handpicked from 141 vetted & reviewed Ballet Dance schools in the West Des Moines area, discover the top 5 elite providers among the selected group of 24 finalists.
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Top-rated companies A-Z in West Des Moines
Ballet Des Moines
Grace Ballet & Acrobatics Studio
Pointe Academy of Ballet and Contemporary Dance
School of Classical Ballet & Dance
The Dance Place
Prominent finalists A-Z in West Des Moines
Academy of the Arts
Ballet North
Becky Nalevanko Dance-Tumbling
Crescendo Conservatory
Dance Connections Performing Arts Center
Dance Expressions
Elements Dance Academy
Heart of America Dance Centre
Inspiring Dance
Iowa Ballet Academy
Kansas City Ballet
Melroe’s School of Dance
Miller Marley School of Dance & Voice
Monarch Conservatory
My King Studio of Dance
New Era Productions Dance Academy
Starstruck Performing Arts Center
Studio 10
Winterset Ballet & Dance Studio
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School of Classical Ballet & Dance
(4)
“Our daughter participates in "Dance Without Limits" which is a dance program for youth with special needs.”
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Grace Ballet & Acrobatics Studio
(30)
Character
Professional
Family
“Grace is a place of fellowship where your child will learn how to dance, from expertly trained teachers, but will learn how to dance as a form of worship.”
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Pointe Academy of Ballet and Contemporary Dance
(6)
“Owners are highly experienced professionals.”
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Ballet Des Moines
“As Iowa's only resident ballet company, our mission is to enrich lives through inspiring dance performances, inclusive education and outreach programs, and innovative community partnerships.”
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The Dance Place
(2)
“Best experience for the money, toes down!”
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Best of 2023
Qualification Criteria for best of Winners
Minimum Overall Score
98 (100)
Minimum Reputation Rank
98.6 Percentile
All of our award winners are based on identifiable facts - reviews, performance, and experience - collected by scientific means. We use this data to assess each business’s essential features, weighting them according to their importance to customers.
“Iowa Ballet Academy offers Children's Division Classes for young ones just getting started; Open Division Classes for students wanting to learn how to dance but need a flexible schedule and a Pre-Professional Division for the more serious students wh...”
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Becky Nalevanko Dance-Tumbling
(5)
Studio
“Amazing”
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Winterset Ballet & Dance Studio
(1)
“Love the family-friendly classes for a variety of ages.”
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Inspiring Dance
(2)
“I would highly recommend Inspiring Dance to anyone looking for a quality dance studio that incorporates dance instruction to many life lessons!”
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Academy of the Arts
(8)
Studio
Kids
“Teachers are very knowledgeable and very helpful and professional and understand the abilities of each student in the class and recommend areas of improvement accordingly.”
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My King Studio of Dance
(29)
Choreography, We Also Offer Tumbling Classes
“Michelle was very gracious to refund what we had already paid toward the end-of-year dance concert fees, and even though I was frustrated with having to pull my daughter out of class early, Michelle helped the experience end on a positive note.”
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Elements Dance Academy
(28)
Knowledge
Confidence
Studio
“We started with private lessons and then joined a group class- she's been dancing at Elements for 2 years now and it is wonderful to see how confident and creative she is with dance!”
“Jackie Williams is an amazing owner with the ability to understand children and their needs and abilities to bring out the very best in each child.”
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Dance Expressions
(11)
Studio
“She's on the shy side, and gets overwhelmed with large groups, but has an absolute blast with dance and for the rest of the week after dance class, asks when she can go back to dance.”
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Melroe's School of Dance
(16)
Family
Professional
“That hard work and training has resulted in him being placed on the Mel Roes competitive dance teams, and he has helped those teams bring home numerous awards, including the current Tumbler of the Year award.”
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Monarch Conservatory
(6)
Studio
Family
“They're nothing shy of amazing with the absolute best staff EVER as they took a young lady that had never danced in her life and turned her into a competition loving glittery flipping turning spinning full on dancer.”
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Starstruck Performing Arts Center
(5)
“Love it”
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Heart of America Dance Centre
(8)
Studio
Parents
“I cannot imagine raising my 4 dancers in any other environment and this recital certainly has me feeling especially nostalgic as these years are quickly fleeting!”
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Crescendo Conservatory
(1)
“Crescendo Conservatory is a lovely dance studio with an extremely wide range of types of dance- Ballet, tap, jazz, hip hop, contemporary, and more!!”
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Ballet North
(11)
Children
Training
Life
“I appreciate knowing that my children are getting excellent training that will prepare them for a career in dance if they choose as well as receiving meaningful life lessons if they decide to lessen the pace later in life.”
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Miller Marley School of Dance & Voice
(12)
Learned
Family
Second Home
“It is always so heartwarming to see where alumni ends up out of high school, especially when they go into professional dancing but also just as a person and how connections from here never break.”
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Kansas City Ballet
(2)
“I love how they push you and how they bring in teachers from new York.”
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New Era Productions Dance Academy
(8)
“We have tons of fun and do fun dance things each week.”
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Studio 10
(3)
“Competitive rates, great dance being taught, and a focus on the child not on competitions.”
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