PETER JONES
I've been teaching couples how to dance, sharing simple to more complex first dance steps and elements, since the 1997.
Last year I passed 12,000 couples!
BallroomWeddingDance is a boutique dance studio dedicated solely to helping you create your First Dance,
personal attention guiding you to a memorably elegant/ sensual/ ROMANTIC dance, comfortably, at your own pace.
Your First dance is such a special moment for you! I am honored to be a part of the most incredible day of your lives
I coached Tony award winning Patina Miller, worked with Kenneth Cole and his daughter,
was invited to help Tracy Morgan with his first dance,
even taught Lara and Eric Trump's theirs!
Learning how to dance together is a perfect metaphor for getting married!
Its all about communication, taking care of each other, making your partner look good also makes YOU look good.
The most important people in your lives will be looking at you, so take a couple of minutes and let me help you easily learn a few basic steps, add a beginning, ending plus a dip and have a fun date-night picking up what will be a life skill.
NOTE: Pay in advance required to receive discount.
About Peter & Our values
I came to NYC as an actor, worked A LOT, but life as an actor is that every job ends sooner rather than later and you're unemployed again!
The end of one show resulted in the choreographer asking if I wanted to work at his studio.
I discovered I really loved working with people just starting out/beginners, and when I went out on my own decided I wanted to work with wedding couples. It's such an amazing time in your lives, preparing for that incredible, memorable day!
Your wedding is the most important day of your life and I love sharing a small part of it. Joy-filled, preparing for it is challenging, right? Let me make the learning-how-to-dance part a fun, romantic time-out from the whole stressful year or so. Make it a date night!
I've carefully picked my team If I can't work with you myself, each has unique skills and style, and they are amazing.
SOME FUN FACTS !
Reality TV: I was "Married At First Sight's" inaugural season's choreographer (Seen above with Jamie and Doug)
Worked with DWTS Louis Van Amstel on Rachael Ray's Wedding Crashers
Danced with/taught Rosanna Scotto on Good Day, NY
I am proud my wife was Black Lives Matter's first National Managing Director
Unusual fact: I'm absolutely fascinated by quantum mechanics (Well, isn't everybody? But entangled particles freak me out...)
I've taught all over the world: London, Dublin, Paris, Nice, DC and NYC
I got married in the Bahamas myself (It was as you might expect - incredible!)
Same sex/cis gender/old-fashioned boy meets grl and one thing leads to another: now there's a wedding for everybody!
I did actually have a great time teaching Eric & Lara Trump for their Big Day (Trivia alert: they danced to Toto's "Africa" as their honeymoon was a South African safari.)
"incredibly fun lessons"
"Peter is a thoughtful and kind instructor and a wonderful person. We cannot recommend more highly!"
"Peter was so patient, so fun, and so creative. My favorite part of my wedding day .... I LOVED our first dance"
"dance lessons were the most fun part of the lead up to our wedding!"
