Arizona Classical Ballet

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Miss Erika is a professional dancer who knows how to demonstrate what she teaches. I highly recommend her classes, especially for advanced students who have aspirations beyond a local recital.

As the Nana of a student at Arizona Classical Ballet, I am thrilled with the lessons that I have observed. Excellent, caring teachers who are getting their students to perform their best!

I would like to strongly suggest that you avoid Arizona Classical Ballet, as well as the owners, Erika and Bradley Bowen. The studio made a large move from a building on Main Street to a building at their home. This has caused many problems. Their financial state of affairs is questionable. The studio went an entire week with NO RUNNING WATER but held classes anyway. Neighbors have complained about the number of cars parking on the street and so they have asked parents not to stay for classes but to just drop off their children. This leaves no accountability to the owners. The children are unsupervised unless they are in class. There is no room for students waiting for class to be in the studio and they don’t want the students in their house so they have the students waiting OUTSIDE on the patio and in the Yuma heat. On one occasion, I had to go pick up my friend's daughter because she had a medical emergency and when I had arrived, NO ADULT had aided the child. She was on her own with the help of a bunch of other kids and in fact, niether of the owners knew what had happened. UNACCEPTABLE. We brought this up to the owners who became immediately defensive. Bradley stopped all communications with the mother. He would not deal with her at all after that. Highly unprofessional behavior.
Bradly’s moods have become worse and worse. Just the other night, after a refund was requested by a parent, Bradly verbally accosted a student for sitting against a wall instead of dancing in a dance routine that she was not part of. The student’s response “he’s just in one of his moods”. When is it ok for a child to be so used to an adults behavior that they make that kind of statement.
As this story has been talked over, more issues have come to surface of Bradly’s temper and verbal assault against his students. I and other parents are currently working to file a formal complaint against Arizona Classical Ballet and Bradley Bowen.