The Rage Entertainment Complex

Rude and moody owner. Beware. Will bite. Literally closed door in my face. Not the way to treat potential customer.
Feb 25th, 2023

Its ok
Dec 26th, 2022

Amazing professional studio. The owner and her family and staff really care about their clients, and students learn strong technique and star power within a fun, trendy, and warm community. The choreographers are true artists too. I also love that they offer voice an theater training where kids can put on plays every semester. Highly recommend!
Jul 25th, 2022

My daughter has been coming here since she was 2.5 years old. She is 6 now and is obviously addicted to dance. We came to the Rage for dance discipline and good dance education.  We get that here. My daughters teachers have been a huge part of her growth and they continue to push her to be better everyday. My daughter started as a recreational dancer and now dances competitively. She loves her studio and her teachers. And the tough love and discipline is exactly what she needs. This is not your wear a princess crown and dance like a butterfly studio. THE RAGE is top notch.  If that's what you are looking for then this is it!
Jul 18th, 2022

I enrolled my 6 y-o who had never danced in a beginner ballet class. I had to enroll online, and the site wouldn't allow me to enroll in the Sat class. Since we can do the Tues class in the summer, I enrolled my daughter in Tues & added a question in the questions/comments field asking to either have her switched to Saturdays come August, or get on the waiting list if the class was full. No one responded. My daughter's 1st class was not bad (though the studio seems like a factory), and the teacher spent some time helping her. However, wks 2 and 3 were not good. The receptionist week 2 was very curt to both me & my 6 y-o, which scared my daughter. Wk 3, I had just received sad news and was very distracted when dropping her off, so I had forgotten to put her hair in a bun. I realized it immediately & told her to come back so I could do her hair. The teacher told me to do it outside, "so she doesn't disrupt the class" and then closed the door. My daughter watching what she's missing silently from the doorway is disruptive? (This is the same teacher who, wk 1 had her studio door open the entire class, & the door across the hall, and the very different music from the 2nd studio was loudly infiltrating my daughter's studio. That was not disruptive.) While silently putting my daughter's hair in a bun, one of the workers told me I was not allowed to be in the hallway watching the class & to leave. I told her I would as soon as my daughter's hair was in a bun & she could enter class. This was the second rude treatment from the front staff. Parents are allowed to watch the last 5 minutes of class. I was heartbroken to see everyone in 2 rows doing a routine that didn't look beginner & my daughter just standing against the back wall having no clue what to do, and no one addressing, helping, or even trying to include her. I approached the teacher afterward (who was different from the teacher who had started the class) and asked her if this was indeed the beginner class, and if it was, did my daughter need a different studio that caters to girls (& boys) who have never danced before? She told me she was subbing, couldn't answer my question, and to ask the woman at the front desk: Stephanie. My conversation with Stephanie began like an interrogation. She refused to believe that this was my daughter's 3rd class, claiming she had never seen her before. (Like I said above, the studio is like a factory. It's huge, with hundreds of kids, and from what I experienced, they mainly focus on their competitive dancers. So it makes sense that Stephanie would never have seen her before, even though she was there. Stephanie wasn't the woman who greeted us week 1. However, I think she was the rude, curt one week 2 that scared my daughter.) I kept repeating this was my daughter's 3rd class and tried to ask my question, but she kept repeating, "So this is your daughter's 1st week. Because I've never seen her." After about 3 minutes of this not so merry-go-round, I told her I was getting irritated and pulled out my phone to show her what I had already paid the studio for my daughter's 3 lessons. Another worker came and intervened, and the entire time this second conversation was going on, Stephanie was on her phone making incredulous and, at times, mocking faces. I turned to Stephanie to say, "I know you don't like me, which is fine..." and I wanted to finish with, but I expect better treatment of my daughter and to get an honest and polite answer to my question. However, I didn't get the chance. The 2nd woman interrupted, and began to talk at me again, but only to defend Stephanie, who continued to make her incredulous and mocking faces, which were incredibly upsetting, esp. after my daughter had been excluded, and she had refused to believe what I was telling her so we could move the conversation forward. Therefore, I told Stephanie she needed a better poker face.Finally, a third, much nicer woman intervened, but the mocking continued, so finally said, "I don't like your faces." Woman 3 said that was incredibly unkind and both claimed Stephanie hadn't made faces. However, they were next to, but slightly behind her. They didn't have a clear or even good view. I was standing right in front of her. I had an excellent view. I gave them my required 30 days notice that I would be leaving the studio. The nicer woman (Krystal?) said it was competition season, it would get better, and asked me to ride this out, but I left the studio crying anyway from Stephanie's sheer callousness. If non-competitors are going to get left behind every competition season, it's not worth riding out. I also danced for years and competed, and nothing like this ever happened with beginners at my studio: constant subbing the teacher out, ignoring beginners, mocking parents with legitimate questions...My daughter told me that she wants to do ballet, but didn't have much fun at Rage. I asked if she thought she was learning anything. "No."
Jul 13th, 2022