Wedding Dance Lessons in NYC | First Dance in 3–5 Lessons
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Wedding Dance Lessons in NYC

Your first dance. Nailed it.

Private wedding dance lessons at Dance With Me SoHo — two blocks from Broadway–Lafayette. Most couples are ready in three to five lessons, even if neither of you has danced a step. Start with a $49 intro: a private lesson plus a group class or a practice party.

First Dance·Parent Dances·Reception Latin·Wedding Party·Short Timelines
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No Experience Needed Any Song, Any Tempo Evenings & Saturdays B · D · F · M · 6 Trains
$49Private Lesson + Class or Party
5.0★Google Rating
3–5Lessons for Most Couples
2,000+NYC Couples Taught
01 Start Here Everything an engaged couple needs to decide, on one screen.

Dance With Me SoHo teaches wedding dance lessons at 676 Broadway, 4th Floor, two blocks from the Broadway–Lafayette subway. No experience is needed. Most couples are ready in three to five private lessons; two weeks out still works. Couples start with a $49 intro: a private lesson plus a group class or a practice party.


You've booked the venue — a Tribeca rooftop, a loft in DUMBO, a restaurant buyout in the West Village. You have the dress, the photographer, the band. The first dance is the one thing still filed under "we'll just wing it." In New York that plan has two problems: the floor is smaller than you think, and there's nowhere at home to practise.

So we fix both. Your instructor builds the routine around your song, sizes it to the floor you'll actually be standing on, and gives you a real ballroom to run it end to end before the day. About nine in ten of our wedding couples have never taken a lesson. More about the studio itself: Dance With Me SoHo.

A bride and groom at their wedding reception moments before the first dance The moment before the moment
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Wedding Dance Lessons in NYC at a Glance

Dance With Me SoHo · Wedding Dance
ProgramsFirst dance choreography, father-daughter and mother-son dances, reception salsa, bachata and merengue, and wedding party routines and flash mobs
Experience neededNone. Around 90% of our wedding couples have never taken a dance lesson
Lessons most couples takeThree to five private lessons. Three for a simple, clean routine; eight or more for lifts, a style change or a second dance
When to startThree to four weeks out is the sweet spot — two weeks out still works
Small venue floor?We size the choreography to the space you have — rumba and nightclub two-step look intimate, not cramped, on a loft floor
Location676 Broadway, 4th Floor, New York, NY 10012 — two blocks from Broadway–Lafayette St (B·D·F·M) and Bleecker St (6)
Start from$49 — a private lesson plus a group class or practice party, nothing to sign that day

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Plan Our First Dance → Evenings until 9 PM · Nothing to sign
02 Why Couples Love Us 5.0★ on Google. Real reviews from our SoHo wedding couples.

What NYC
Couples Say

★★★★★
"Valencia is amazing- we had so much fun learning our wedding dance here!"
Mia KhouryGoogle review · Wedding dance, SoHo
★★★★★
"First dance class with my partner and we had an amazing time with Valencia!! Thank you"
K OGoogle review · First dance class, SoHo
★★★★★
"Natalia was so great!! Made my fiance and I so comfortable dancing ahead of our first dance"
Kimberly RolandGoogle review · Wedding dance, SoHo
03 Pick Your Way In Everyone starts with the same $49 intro. You decide what happens next in that lesson, not before it.

Wedding Dance Programs at
Dance With Me SoHo

01
A groom dipping his bride at the end of their first dance

First Dance Choreography for Couples

The core program. A custom routine built to your recording — a romantic sway with one clean spin, a slow rumba, or a full entrance that stops the room — and sized to the floor you'll actually be standing on. We teach lead and follow first, so the two of you are connected rather than both counting in your heads. Song still undecided? We'll help you judge tempo and danceability before you commit.

Custom RoutineAny SongSized to Your Floor
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02
A father and daughter dancing together at a wedding reception

Father-Daughter and Mother-Son Dances

The dance that empties the tissue boxes, usually danced by the person with the least dance experience in the room. We keep it warm and simple: an easy pattern, a comfortable hold, a graceful way to finish — no pressure and no counting out loud. Parents can book on their own, at whatever pace suits them.

Parent DancesOne Lesson WorksAll Ages
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A partnering turn taught in a salsa class at Dance With Me SoHo

Reception Dances: Salsa, Bachata and Merengue

For the rest of the night. At a New York reception the floor belongs to everyone — a merengue set, a hora, the bachata your cousins have danced since they could walk. A few sessions put the two of you on that floor instead of at the head table, led simply enough to follow anyone. Want more Latin? See our salsa classes in NYC.

SalsaBachataMerengue
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A wedding party dancing a choreographed group routine at the reception

Wedding Party Routines and Flash Mobs

Bridesmaids, groomsmen, siblings, the whole crew. We rehearse group routines and surprise flash mobs that land — including the one that starts as a normal first dance and turns into something else entirely — and keep them simple enough that everyone can actually pull it off on the night.

Bridal PartyFlash MobSurprise Reveal
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A framed first dance photograph hanging above a console table at home

Short-Timeline First Dance

The wedding is in two weeks, and the first dance was going to be "figured out at home." It happens a lot, and it isn't a problem. We strip out everything complicated and drill four things until they're automatic: a clean entrance, a hold that holds, one turn that looks better than it is, and a finish. Evening slots until 9 PM make back-to-back weeks possible around two jobs.

2 Weeks or LessEvenings & SaturdaysSimple, Clean Routine
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04 Who You'll Actually Meet Certifications across the network include the National Dance Council of America, the Imperial Society of Teachers of Dancing and DVIDA.

Who’ll Choreograph
Your First Dance

Every lesson at Dance With Me SoHo is taught by a working professional — competitors and performers, not part-time staff. But the reason they teach weddings is that they're unusually good at making nervous couples comfortable in the first ten minutes: about 90% of the people who walk in have never danced before. Dance With Me was founded by Maksim and Valentin Chmerkovskiy of Dancing With The Stars; these are the people who teach you.

Adam Kent, studio manager and ballroom dance instructor at Dance With Me SoHo in New York City

Adam Kent

Studio Manager · Ballroom & Latin Instructor

  • Top 60 in the World
  • Blackpool Dance Festival
  • Ballroom
  • Latin
35+Years dancing
& teaching
3×Top Teacher
Killick Royal
10+Years, Crystal
Cruises

Melbourne-born, ranked among the top 60 couples in the world during his competitive career, and a three-time Top Teacher at the Killick Royal Championships. Adam manages the SoHo studio and has choreographed wedding-celebration routines here for couples who started as beginners.

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Competitive career — Melbourne to Blackpool

Adam has been dancing for over 35 years. He began as a very young student at Wenden Dance Studio in Melbourne under the Australian coach Don Mc Robert, and competed with his sister Patricia through the Juvenile, Junior and adult amateur sections, winning many events along the way.

The pair reached the top level in Australia, winning The Federal Association Queen Elizabeth II Silver Jubilee Commemorative 10 Dance Championship Trophy, and took the Bangkok and Taipei International Championships. In London they trained with some of the world’s top coaches, competed across England and Europe, reached the Blackpool Dance Festival, and were ranked among the top 60 couples in the world.

Stage, screen and television

Adam appeared in True Blood, co-choreographed the musical film Rent, toured with Clay Aiken in Joyful Noise and performed in Simply Ballroom at the Golden Nugget, joined on tour by Debbie Reynolds. He was in the original cast of Dance Star Asia, placing second with former Miss Malaysia Lina Teoh, and spent more than ten years as a guest entertainer and instructor with Crystal Cruises.

Teaching and coaching

Before Dance With Me, Adam taught at Karen Hardy Dance Studios in London and coached pro-am students worldwide. He was named Top Teacher three years in a row at the Killick Royal Championships, won Top Teacher at the New York Dance Festival, and joined Dance With Me at the Galleria studio in Houston before moving to New York.

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Leyland Patrick, dance instructor at Dance With Me SoHo and Midtown in New York City

Leyland Patrick

Dance Instructor · SoHo & Midtown

  • Wedding Couples
  • Salsa & Bachata
  • Waltz & Tango
  • Hip-Hop
3Age he started
dancing
5 yrsPerforming on
cruise lines
2Studios: SoHo
& Midtown

A performer first — high-school theatre, then five years on cruise-line stages — so he knows exactly what it takes to dance in front of a room. Students call him LP. A student’s note: “He’s a great motivator, extremely patient and professional.”

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How he got here

Leyland has been dancing hip-hop for as long as he can remember. In high school it led him into theatre, where he found a second love: performing. That road took him to five years performing on cruise lines, working with people from all over the world and learning the stage in every format it comes in.

How he teaches

His lessons are a mix of fun, energy and information. Technique and repetition can get tedious — Leyland says so himself — but his goal is for every lesson to be a positive experience that still gets real work done, so students leave more confident than they arrived.

On wedding couples

Wedding couples are one of the groups he works with most, alongside beginners and intermediate dancers, in private lessons and group classes at SoHo and Midtown. He teaches bachata, salsa, cha-cha, waltz, tango and dance fitness, plus hip-hop — useful when the first dance turns into a surprise second song.

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Alejandro Marquez, dance instructor at Dance With Me SoHo in New York City

Alejandro Marquez

Dance Instructor

Alejandro teaches private and group lessons at Dance With Me SoHo. His full profile is being written — in the meantime, the front desk can tell you which styles he teaches and match you to the right instructor for your song and your date.

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Courtney Ciminieri, dance instructor at Dance With Me SoHo in New York City

Courtney Ciminieri

Dance Instructor

Courtney teaches private and group lessons at Dance With Me SoHo. Her full profile is being written — in the meantime, the front desk can tell you which styles she teaches and match you to the right instructor for your song and your date.

Book with Courtney
Yegor Fidinich, dance instructor at Dance With Me SoHo in New York City

Yegor Fidinich

Dance Instructor

Yegor teaches private and group lessons at Dance With Me SoHo. His full profile is being written — in the meantime, the front desk can tell you which styles he teaches and match you to the right instructor for your song and your date.

Book with Yegor

Meet the full team on the Dance With Me SoHo studio page.

05Transparent pricingEvery rate published, nothing hidden

How much do wedding dance lessons cost in NYC?

New Student Intro Package $49
  • One private lesson — bring your song and start your first dance one-on-one
  • Plus a group class or a practice party
  • Solo or with a partner
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Wedding dance lessons at Dance With Me SoHo in New York City start with a $49 package: one private lesson plus a group class or practice party. After that, private lessons are $123–$155 depending on your program, group classes $30 and practice parties $20. Most couples take three to five private lessons. Full terms are on our pricing and policy page.

Dance With Me SoHo rates
FormatBest forPrice
Intro packageYour first visit — bring your song$49
Private lessonYour first dance routine, parent dances, short timelines$123–$155
Group classReception dances, meeting people$30
Practice partyDancing in front of people before the wedding, low pressure$20
Social MembershipUnlimited group classes and parties$199
06 No Surprises Not a consultation, and not a sales meeting with a dance floor attached.

Your First Wedding Dance Lesson,
Step by Step

Most couples arrive a little nervous and leave having danced the first eight counts of their own song — and knowing which style it is and roughly how the routine will be shaped. Here's exactly how the forty-five minutes go.

An instructor teaching a couple during a private wedding dance lesson at Dance With Me SoHo Both of you · One instructor

  1. You take the elevator to the 4th floor

    We're at 676 Broadway, two blocks from Broadway–Lafayette. Wear something you can move in and smooth-soled shoes — leather soles beat sneakers for turning.

  2. Five minutes on your song, your date and your venue

    A Tribeca rooftop and a hotel ballroom need different routines, and a wedding in two weeks needs a different plan from one in four months — so we ask first.

  3. Your instructor hears your actual recording

    Style, tempo and the shape of the routine all come out of your track. Bring two or three if you're still deciding and we'll tell you which one dances best.

  4. A hold that holds, and your first eight counts

    Both of you, one instructor, private floor time from the first minute — you are not learning in a room of twenty other people.

  5. A real plan and a real number

    Your instructor quotes a program around your song, your date and how much choreography you want — after the lesson, not before it. Plenty of couples take the intro and stop there; nobody chases you afterwards.

  6. Then a group class or a practice party

    Part of the $49. A group class is a good place to pick up a reception dance; a practice party is the lowest-pressure way to dance in front of people before the wedding.

Book Our First Lesson — $49 → Both of you · Bring your song · Nothing to sign
07 Choosing a Style Couples expect to pick a dance, then a song. It works the other way round.

What Is the Best Dance
to Learn for a Wedding?

There isn't one best wedding dance — the best style is whichever matches your song. Your track's time signature, tempo and feel narrow the answer to one or two styles before anyone steps on the floor. Most first dances we choreograph in New York are nightclub two-step, rumba, bachata, foxtrot or waltz.

Matching your song to a first dance style
If your song is…The dance is
A current pop or R&B ballad that fits none of the othersNightclub Two-Step
A slow 4/4 ballad, especially on a small venue floorRumba
Latin, or modern R&B with a Latin leanBachata
A slow, swinging standard — Sinatra, Bublé, Nat King ColeFoxtrot
Anything that counts in threes rather than foursWaltz

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Two things shift the answer after the music. Your floor — foxtrot and waltz travel, so a Manhattan loft or a restaurant buyout often pushes a couple toward rumba or nightclub two-step, which stay in one place and read as intimate rather than cramped. And your timeline — with three weeks rather than three months, bachata and nightclub two-step look good soonest. Bring the song to your intro and you'll leave knowing which it is.

Best for the modern ballad your song probably is

Nightclub Two-Step

The least famous style here and the one most couples end up dancing. It was invented for exactly this problem: contemporary ballads too slow to swing, not in three for a waltz, and without enough Latin feel for a rumba. If your song is a current radio ballad, this is very likely the answer — it fits a huge share of the tracks we're handed.

Best for slow ballads and small floors

Rumba

Latin, unhurried, and danced close together largely on one spot. That last part matters in New York: rumba looks intimate rather than cramped when your venue leaves you a ten-foot square between the tables, and it's the fastest way to make a slow song feel like choreography instead of swaying.

Best for Latin and R&B-flavoured tracks

Bachata

Dominican in origin, built on a simple side-to-side pattern with a lift on the fourth beat, danced in a close hold. The quickest of the five to get looking good — which is why it turns up so often when a couple has three weeks rather than three months. Learn it for the first dance and you're still using it an hour into the reception, when the DJ turns the floor over to both families.

Best for big-band and crooner standards

Foxtrot

Smooth, travelling and unmistakably classic — the style behind most black-tie first dances. It moves around the floor rather than staying put, which photographs beautifully but needs room to do it, so it suits a proper hotel ballroom better than a packed loft. Expect a little more work on frame and timing than the styles above.

Best for songs that count in threes

Waltz

If your song sways in sets of three rather than four — think Moon River, or Ed Sheeran's Perfect — it's almost certainly a waltz. The rise and fall gives it the sweeping, storybook quality couples picture. Rotational, so like foxtrot it wants floor: lovely in a hotel ballroom, tight on a rooftop.

Salsa and merengue aren't on this list because they're rarely a first dance — but they are very often the second one. Reception salsa, bachata and merengue are covered by our reception dance program.

08 When to Start Three to four weeks out is the sweet spot. New York timelines compress — so here's every window.

When to Start — Including
If It's Next Week

The honest answer is that the right time to start is whenever you're reading this. The first dance is the last thing on most New York wedding checklists, and the weeks before fill up fast — fittings, tastings, two commutes. Here's what each window actually buys you.

What each starting window buys you
Time before the weddingWhat we do
3 months or more · The productionLifts, a style change halfway through, a surprise second song, or a parent dance and a wedding-party routine on top of your own. The window that genuinely needs the runway.
6–8 weeks · Room to polishA full routine plus time to run it until it's automatic — and a practice party or two to dance it in front of people first.
3–4 weeks · The sweet spotWhere most couples land. Enough time to learn it, practise it and feel confident, without adding one more thing to an already busy month.
2 weeks or less · Short timelineCompressed, and it works. A few clean, high-impact movements drilled until they're automatic. Couples have started two days out and still pulled it off.

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How Many Lessons Will We Need?

Most New York couples are camera-ready after three to five private lessons. Your instructor gives you a real number at the intro, once they've seen you move and heard the song.

3The essentials

One clean, simple routine you can relax into, built to repeat safely under pressure. The most common choice inside three weeks.

5The usual path

A full first dance, start to finish: an entrance, a shaped middle, one moment the photographer is waiting for, and an ending that isn't just stopping. Where most couples land.

8+The production

Dips, lifts, a style change, a surprise second song, or parent and wedding-party routines on top of your own. Start earlier for this one.

Private lessons run whenever the studio is open — Monday to Friday, 1 PM – 9 PM, and Saturday, 12 PM – 7:30 PM. Call (212) 840-3262 and we'll find slots around both your work schedules.

Preview the Moves Before You Arrive

Three short tutorials from the Dance With Me team. Watch them together tonight and your first lesson starts a step ahead.

Wedding dance tutorial for beginners, easy first dance steps — Dance With Me video Easy First Dance Steps0:28 Three wedding dance intro ideas for a grand entrance — Dance With Me video 3 Grand Entrance Ideas0:34 How to do a tornado dip in a wedding dance, step by step — Dance With Me video The Tornado Dip0:47
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09 The New York Wedding

Most NYC Couples Wait Too Long.
Then Panic.

"We'll just wing it" rarely survives contact with a New York venue. Here is what actually goes wrong — and what we build the lessons around.

a

The awkward sway

Without a plan you rock back and forth for three minutes while guests check their phones. It doesn't look bad in the room. It looks bad in the photos, which are the version that lasts.

b

Every guest is filming

Your first dance isn't just a moment any more — it's a dozen Instagram Stories. One awkward step becomes the clip that lives forever.

c

The dress, and a downtown-sized floor

A loft or restaurant buyout gives you a fraction of a ballroom floor. Without choreography scaled to the real space you clip a column, step on the train, or spend the song staring at your feet.

d

No room to rehearse

You can't practise a first dance between the couch and the radiator. Couples who plan to "figure it out at home" arrive having never once run the song end to end on a real floor.

e

Then the floor opens up

At a New York reception the party belongs to everyone — a hora, a merengue set, the bachata your cousins grew up on. If the first dance is all you learned, you watch your own wedding from the head table.

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The ballroom floor at Dance With Me SoHo on Broadway in New York City A real floor to rehearse on
10 Watch Twenty-five seconds inside a real wedding dance lesson.

What a Wedding Lesson
Actually Looks Like

Behind the scenes of a wedding dance lesson — Dance With Me video Your First Dance, Behind the Scenes0:25

Nothing about our first dance lessons in NYC assumes you can dance. We build the routine around what your bodies already do well and quietly work on the rest, so the finished thing looks like you two, on a good day — not two people executing someone else's choreography.

There's a side effect most couples don't expect. An hour a week where you put the phones down, learn something together and laugh at each other turns out to be the calmest hour of the whole planning process. Plenty of SoHo couples keep coming after the wedding — it became their date night.

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From the Dance With Me team. More short tutorials on our YouTube channel.

11 Sized to Your Floor Tell us the venue when you book. We rehearse for that floor, not a generic one.

Rooftop, Loft or Ballroom?
We Rehearse for the Room

A New York first dance almost never happens on the floor you learned it on. So the routine gets built backwards from the room: how much space you'll actually have once the tables are in, what's underfoot, where the photographer will stand — and which style makes that space look intentional.

How the routine changes with the venue
Your venueWhat we adjust
Loft or restaurant buyoutA compact routine that stays largely on one spot — rumba or nightclub two-step — with turns placed away from columns and the tight corners.
Hotel ballroom or banquet hallRoom to travel. Foxtrot or waltz that moves around the floor, with an entrance and a finish lined up for the photographer.
Rooftop or terraceWind, uneven pavers and an outdoor floor. Fewer spins, a secure hold, and footwork that doesn't depend on a perfectly smooth surface.
A gown with a train or volumeWe rehearse in your wedding shoes and a practice skirt, and work out what the train does on every turn before the day.
A mixed-family receptionAdd a few sessions of salsa, bachata or merengue so you're on the floor for the second half of the night too.

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Working in Midtown? Sessions can move to Dance With Me Midtown when that's closer to the office — both studios are on our New York studios roster.

Tell Us Your Venue → Any floor · Any song · Nothing to sign
12 Find Us Two blocks from the train — the easiest commute in your whole wedding plan.

Visit Our
SoHo Studio

StudioDance With Me SoHo
676 Broadway, 4th Floor
New York, NY 10012
Phone(212) 840-3262
HoursMonday–Friday 1 PM – 9 PM
Saturday 12 PM – 7:30 PM
Sunday closed
SubwayBroadway–Lafayette St (B·D·F·M) · Bleecker St (6) · 8th St–NYU (N·R·W) · Prince St (R·W)
DirectionsOpen in Google Maps

On Broadway, at the SoHo–NoHo border

Dance With Me SoHo is on the 4th floor of 676 Broadway, between Bond and Great Jones. The Broadway–Lafayette St / Bleecker St complex is two blocks south, with 8th St–NYU and Prince St a short walk either side — so a lesson after work is one train, not a trek.

Couples come to us from Greenwich Village, the West Village, Tribeca, the Lower East Side, Chelsea, Midtown, the Upper East and West Sides, Brooklyn, Queens, Jersey City and Hoboken. Lessons run until 9 PM on weekdays and through Saturday afternoon. Running late? Call — we'd rather hold your slot than have you rush.

The full team, group schedule and every style we teach: our SoHo dance studio.

Inside Dance With Me SoHo at 676 Broadway, New York
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13 The Difference

Why NYC Couples
Choose Dance With Me

Dance With Me was founded by Maksim and Valentin Chmerkovskiy of Dancing With The Stars. That's a nice sentence, and it isn't the reason to book — it's the reason the standard of teaching is what it is. Your instructor is coached to that standard and then points it at one thing: feeling confident for three minutes on your wedding day.

Train at our SoHo studio at 676 Broadway: a full ballroom floor two blocks from Broadway–Lafayette, open until 9 PM on weekdays.

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Instructors Hired to Teach Beginners

Selected for teaching ability, not only performance credits, with certifications across the network through NDCA, ISTD and DVIDA. Around 90% of our wedding couples have never taken a lesson.

Works With Any Song

A ballad, R&B, a Sinatra standard, a Spanish-language track or a mashup — even a flash-mob surprise. We choreograph to the structure of your actual recording.

Scaled to Your Dress and Your Floor

We rehearse in the heels you chose and size the routine to the space you actually have — a loft, a rooftop or a hotel ballroom.

Evenings, Saturdays, and Two Studios

Lessons until 9 PM on weekdays and through Saturday afternoon — and a session can move to Midtown when that's closer to work.

14 Questions, Answered Something not covered? Call (212) 840-3262 — weekdays until 9 PM, Saturdays until 7:30 PM.

NYC Wedding Dance Lessons — Frequently Asked Questions

No, and most couples who walk in here don't have any. Around 90% of our wedding couples have never taken a dance lesson. Our SoHo instructors break movement into simple, repeatable steps that feel natural rather than robotic, and build the routine to your ability rather than making you rise to a routine.

At Dance With Me SoHo you start with a $49 intro: a private lesson plus a group class or a practice party. After that, private lessons are $123–$155 each depending on the program, group classes $30 and practice parties $20. Your instructor prices a wedding program around your song, your timeline and how much choreography you want, and there is no obligation beyond the intro.

Most couples are comfortable and camera-ready after three to five private lessons. Three covers one clean, simple routine, which is the usual choice inside three weeks. Five lets your instructor build a full first dance with an entrance, a shaped middle and a real ending. Eight or more suits dips, lifts, a style change halfway through, or parent and wedding-party routines on top of your own.

Three to four weeks before the wedding is the sweet spot: enough time to learn the routine, practise it and feel confident, without adding one more thing to an already busy month. Start earlier if you want lifts or more than one dance. That said, we have had couples start two days out and still pull off a beautiful first dance.

The New Student Intro Package is one private dance lesson for the two of you, plus a group class or an invitation to our next practice party. Bring your song to the private lesson and you will leave knowing which style it is and roughly how the routine will be shaped. Plenty of couples take the intro and stop there, and nobody chases you afterwards.

Yes. A classic ballad, a Sinatra standard, a Spanish-language first dance or a surprise hip-hop mashup: we choreograph to the structure and emotion of your particular recording rather than fitting it to a template. Bring it to your intro lesson and we will map it out with you. If you are still choosing, your instructor will help you judge tempo and danceability.

The best wedding dance is whichever style matches your song. A modern ballad usually becomes a nightclub two-step, a slow 4/4 song a rumba, a Latin track a bachata, a swinging standard a foxtrot, and a song that counts in threes a waltz. Your venue floor and your timeline can shift the answer, which is why your instructor listens to the song at the intro.

Yes. Father-daughter, mother-son and group routines for the wedding party are all part of what we do, together with surprise flash mobs. Parents can book on their own, at whatever pace suits them, and group routines are kept simple enough that everyone can actually pull them off on the night.

We do. A New York reception floor belongs to everyone, so we teach salsa, bachata and merengue as well, led simply enough to follow anyone. A few sessions put the two of you on the floor for the second half of the night instead of at the head table.

Yes. We size the choreography to the space you will actually have once the tables are in. On a loft or restaurant floor we usually choose rumba or nightclub two-step, which stay largely in one place and look intimate rather than cramped, and we place turns away from columns and corners. Tell us the venue when you book.

Dance With Me SoHo is at 676 Broadway, 4th Floor, New York, NY 10012, on the SoHo–NoHo border. The Broadway–Lafayette St / Bleecker St station (B, D, F, M and 6 trains) is two blocks away, with 8th St–NYU and Prince St a short walk either side. We are open Monday to Friday, 1 PM to 9 PM, and Saturday, 12 PM to 7:30 PM, and closed on Sunday. Call (212) 840-3262.

Comfortable clothes and shoes with smooth soles so you can turn. Avoid rubber-soled sneakers, which grip the floor too much. Brides should bring their wedding shoes to the final lesson so the routine is rehearsed at the heel height they will actually wear, plus a practice skirt if the dress has volume.

15 Book It A private lesson plus a class or practice party, $49, and nothing to sign.

Start With Your
$49 Wedding Intro

Your first lesson is private, for the two of you, at our SoHo studio on Broadway. You'll dance to your own song, talk through your date and your venue, and leave with a straight answer about how many lessons your first dance needs. Then join a group class or a practice party — it's part of the $49.

A real lesson, not a sales pitch

You dance. That's the whole appointment.

No obligation past the $49

You'll get a specific program price before you decide anything.

Tell us the venue

We'll size the routine to the floor you'll actually be dancing on.

Or just call

(212) 840-3262 — Monday to Friday 1 PM – 9 PM, Saturday 12 PM – 7:30 PM.

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Beyond the Wedding: Our Other NYC Programs.

Instructor working one-on-one with a student at Dance With Me SoHo

Private Dance Lessons in NYC

How every wedding program is actually delivered — one instructor, one couple, your pace. The same format, without the wedding-day deadline attached.

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Couple dancing together during a lesson at Dance With Me SoHo

Couples Dance Lessons in NYC

What a lot of our couples do after the wedding. The first dance turns out to be the start of something rather than a one-off task on the checklist.

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Beginner dance class learning basic steps at Dance With Me SoHo

Beginner Dance Lessons in NYC

Never danced a step? This is the door most of our students walk in through — wedding or not — and nobody in the room has been doing it longer than you.

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Salsa partnering turn taught in a class at Dance With Me SoHo

Salsa Classes in NYC

The reason a New York reception floor stays full after the first dance ends. Quick to pick up, easy to use socially, and the styles both families already know.

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Swing dance class in progress at Dance With Me SoHo

Swing Dance Lessons in NYC

If your song is upbeat rather than a ballad, this is usually where the choreography goes — and it is the most fun a wedding party can have in one session.

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Group dance class following the instructor at Dance With Me SoHo

Group Dance Classes in NYC

A low-cost way to build the muscle memory between private lessons. Dance with the room, and the steps stop being something you have to think about.

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