About Us

If you're looking for Salsa, Swing, Country Western, Ballroom, Latin, Argentine Tango or wedding dance instruction, Austin Uptown Dance is the perfect dance connection for you. Our mission is to promote all styles of social and partner dancing and get you connected with the Austin social dancing and competitive scene. We are proud to have an excellent, fully qualified staff of instructors teaching group classes, private lessons and specialty workshops. Our goal is to keep Austin dancing! Whether you're a beginner or an experienced dancer, we're sure to have something for you!

We teach all these dances and more:

In addition, we offer fitness classes to help keep you fit for dancing, such as:

• Yoga
• Hip Hop
• HOOPnotica

Our Mission

Our mission is to promote all styles of partner dancing by providing a wide variety of dance styles, classes, workshops and socials for your dancing pleasure. We want to be your Ultimate Dance Connection in Austin!

People Talk...About Us

Below, you will find what dancing at Austin Uptown Dance has meant to some of our students.

"Thank you for another outstanding lesson. You have wonderful communication skills, both verbal and physical.

...I am continaully impressed by your knowldege of body mechanics. I have never been around a female who has such a finely tuned ability to realize...why the body needs to be positioned in a specific place." Richard and Sue

"[We recently] got married...and wanted to learn how to dance.  We did the 1 month all you can take classes and enjoyed the heck out of them.  We did salsa, west coast swing, and I took zumba on the weekends.  The instructors were patient and good with beginners, and by the end of the month in both classes, we felt like we could actually get up and socially dance together.  Not like Fred and Ginger, but enough that we can get up with some confidence and boogie down...

Our first dance at the wedding?  Well, we were too frazzled to do the fun steps we planned but we were able to look pretty calm and collected doing the basic east coast swing we learned.  Can't wait to get some time...and be able to do another full month!" Leah R.

"As an avid dancer of many years, who two years ago sought to improve my dance with studio instruction, I say without qualification: Uptown Dance is the Best studio in Austin.

Uptown’s owners are also instructors and they provide a knowledge of dance excellence second to none, and I believe, even more importantly, instruction supported by a daily hands on warm family atmosphere of acceptance, nurturing, and always - light hearted fun.

Austin Uptown Dance Studio is our town’s premier studio." Edward B.

"If you're reading this, you have probably decided to go to a dance studio for some lessons. Maybe you took free lessons in dance halls or just imitated other dancers like I did for a while, but you have now decided that you want to become noticeably improved. Perhaps you want to lead better or follow better, or know the correct footwork without stepping on your partner's feet. Maybe you want to know some cool moves or styling that doesn't look like what everyone else is doing. On further thought, you think it just might be fun! Well, Austin Uptown Dance is the place for you!

I have been attending Uptown since mid 2008. Some of my dance friends and I started trying out some of the studios in Austin. I started by buying a class card to attend some classes...After taking several classes, I moved up to the unlimited monthly group class program. Trying a lot of the different class offered, from Salsa and Latin to Country and Ballroom, has helped me take my dancing to a higher level and improve my overall ability. Last year I started competing on the County Western Pro/Am circuit as a Newcomer. Group classes are just plain fun with great explanation, technique and useful social patterns.

If you decide to try the classes at Uptown, be sure to say hi or ask me to dance." Russ H.

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