Reviews of Five Flags Dance Academy (Dance School)

Five Flags Dance Academy

Wonderful studio ! Wonderful people, family and friends. Great parking ! Very kid friendly, rates are very reasonable and kids are treated with respect. 2 recitals instead of one. Good reviews out way the bad !

Chris Barnett

Great studio. Friendly staff with tons of experience. It's no reason they are the best in Pensacola. If you want to learn from the best send your kids to the best!

Desire Patterson

Best studio in town!

Annalea Dawn

I've been dancing for seven years going on eight, it has been a wonderful experience!! This is my first year on competition team and all of those wonderful teachers have brought me here to the point I’m at now, I’m so ready to begin a new year, the owner is sweet kind generous and funny and I’m so proud to call five flags dance academy my second home

Stacy Stone

This studio is ran by the manipulative, money hungry, trashy Ashley Fuqua Robertson Barnett. Only a criminal would need so many last names to hide her deceptive past of stealing from the disabled, elderly or the hard working parent(s). Before walking in the studio (located next to a liquor store in the ran down strip mall that has police called daily) hold your breath the stench of a dog pound can not compare to this “studio” as she calls it. If you join her competitive team be ready to be over charged due to her lack of ability to pay on time and her selfish greed. Your child will be encouraged to be anorexic and will be told vomiting will help a costume fit. If your dancer is a boy they get to be front and center and treated like a prince. This should worry you. If you give her advance notice that you are moving on to another studio she will keep the money you have paid for future classes and the competitions and then trash talk you and your child. Lying is natural for her just as sure as the little rat she owns will poop on your child’s over priced costume. If you have any doubts of what I am warning you about a quick google search of Ashley Fuqua Mobile Alabama will show you her mugshot and crimes she has been prosecuted for. My children will never have to step in that hole of filth and abuse again. Half of the team has left her I wait for the others to join us at a real studio.

Dano Fish

The short version: my experience with this studio was rude, unwelcoming, cliquey, and left my daughter distraught-- insisting she did NOT want to go back again. When we arrived for our first class no one took any time to explain anything. No one was at the desk to ask questions to. I wasn't told which room the class was in, who the teacher was, how we would know the room/teacher was ready for students to enter, where we should wait...we just walked into a hubbub and were left to figure it out ourselves. After noticing at the first two lessons that the other students in the class would wait in a side room I asked the teacher if my daughter could wait there also. She gave me an unwelcoming look and said those girls were back there because they were 'just putting their stuff down'. However, they were all clearly sitting around chatting waiting for the class to begin. She hadn't really answered my question, so I asked again, and the teacher begrudgingly said my daughter could wait there also. It really felt I had offended some sensibility in the teacher for even proposing that my daughter wait in that room. The next week, only three girls showed up for the class-- my daughter and two girls 1-2 years older than her. This was her third dance lesson in her ENTIRE lifetime, shared with two much more experience dancers. As soon as she left the studio she burst into tears and was inconsolable for a good 10 minutes. She finally calmed down and reported that the teacher kept wanting her to string together numerous dance moves-- moves she had barely been introduced to individually. The more experienced dancers were held up as the way she should be doing it, however, clearly her skill was no where near that level. She became upset and overwhelmed at the unrealistic expectations and the teacher just told her to "Stop making excuses." Trying to explain that you don't know how to do what is being asked, is not "making excuses." Also, this is beginner dance for 6-8 year-olds, not try-outs for the Bolshoi, back off and show some understanding. We did NOT go back to finish the remainder of the classes.

Alena Nary

My daughter has learned so much over the past two years! We drive almost an hour 3 times a week to dance here

Brenda McCool

This studio is a great studio for learning the discipline of dance while having fun . Current owner has grown the studio with her talented team of professionals . The dance team has currently won “Nationals “ Excellent studio for learning dance or improving your talent .

Cricket Clevenger

Best Studio around!! The owner runs it like a well oiled machine! I drive 2hrs just to work for Ashley and teach the amazing kids we have! I have been making this drive every week for 2 going on 3yrs! Ashley truly cares for her students and staff. I recommend anyone I speak with to her studio and always will!

Lacy Bernhardt

We love the studio. The owners are the nicest. A great environment and my girls have learned so much. Plus they've made new friend in the process.

Buggy

The best dance school there is! :D

June Sunctin

The owner is very rude and self centered. Wanted to know about classes she talked about how great she was and how she came into a mess and had to fix what the previous owner had done wrong for years. Then she told me my 6 year old would lose weight and that was good because she needed exercise. This is no place for children. To see she had to write her own review speaks for itself. I would give it zero stars if that was an option.

Karen Fischbasher

Honestly, words cannot explain how irritated and angry I am at this dance studio. The teachers there are no better than bullies, constantly insulting the children with very personal insults, keep in mind these are children. That is insane. They even encourage anorexia and buleimia. On top of that, the owner of the studio is currently and purposefully evading paying her taxes, which is entirely illegal, and even lying to the IRS about many other things. Overall, this studio is awful, and the law should’ve shut it down long ago.

Jessica Davison

This studio is the best and has amazing teachers who love these kids. My kids just completed their first year and we are here to stay! I can't even skip a dance night without my kids getting on to me because they love going so much. My daughter has learned so much in just her first year it's hard to believe how much she has progressed. Also, the price is very affordable especially if you have more than one kid who wants to dance. I am so glad to have found this place and wish I started my kids a long time ago!

Abigail Muriel

I’ve danced at this studio for 12 years and I can’t be more happy being here!!

Brittney Esguerra

Very distasteful! Let the children not only dance half dressed (sports bras, crop tops, and dresses that show everything) in multiple songs at tonight's recital but also had children dancing to Christina Aguilera's EXPRESS. The first line of the song was "you've got to show a little leg and shimmy your chest"! The song also mentioned burlesque dancing MULTIPLE times. To have children promoting and dancing to a song about glorified stripped in unacceptable! There is no telling how many perverts or potential pedophile were in the audience letting their thought wonder to images of these children! If that were my daughter I would have made a scene, snatched my child off stage and ruined the whole show. There were quite a few people around me that felt the same and I hope they voice their corcerns! I promise I will let everyone I know how they sexualize CHILDREN! I will also be contacting the studio!

Emily Grace

Amazing instructors! New renovations! Classes for 2 year olds through adults! No wonder they are the Best of the Bay winner for best dance studio! Been dancing there for 9 years and have never had any problems with anything.

Dance Momma

I’ve been dancing at this studio for 7 years and I’ve improved so much!! Love the teachers and all the kids here! Great experience and environment love it