Try Your First ClassPersonalised Latin dance coaching on the Gold Coast - whether you're starting from scratch, building social-dance confidence, refining technique or working toward performance and competition goals.
Private lessons give us time to work on the details that matter to you - timing, technique, partner connection, body movement, styling, musicality and confidence.
Lessons are suitable for complete beginners through to experienced dancers, and can be tailored to social dancing, competition preparation, choreography or performance development.
Private dance lessons on the Gold Coast are not just for advanced dancers. Some students want to feel comfortable dancing Salsa or Bachata at a social. Some want a memorable date, a wedding dance, competition coaching or intensive technical development. Your lessons are built around the outcome that matters to you.
Private lessons for general improvement give social dancers one-to-one attention that is difficult to replicate in a group class. Your instructor can identify technical habits, adapt exercises to your body and experience, and spend the full lesson on the skills that will make the biggest difference to your dancing.
Ben - weekly Salsa coaching
Ben used a weekly Salsa private lesson to sharpen his technique and become more confident social dancing. One-to-one coaching gives us time to diagnose the small details - timing, weight transfer, lead and follow, musicality and movement quality - then turn them into skills you can actually use when you dance with other people.
Ongoing Salsa and Bachata private coaching is ideal when you want skills that carry onto the social dance floor. Rather than simply learning more combinations, lessons can develop timing, partner connection, lead and follow, musicality and the confidence to freestyle naturally with different people.
Gilles - Salsa & Bachata
Gilles began private Salsa and Bachata lessons with Elite in 2019 to improve his technique and confidence on the social dance floor. He later met his future wife in one of our dance classes - and returned for private lessons when it was time to prepare their wedding dance.
Pro/Am dance training pairs an amateur student with a professional instructor for an intensive performance or competition project. It is one of the most concentrated ways to improve because technique, musicality, partnerwork, choreography and performance are trained toward a real deadline. In our experience, dancers often make some of their biggest leaps in progress while preparing for a Pro/Am performance.
Doug - 12 week Bachata Pro/Am program
Doug undertook a 12-week Bachata Pro/Am program with Kristi, training twice a week toward competing together at the Australian Championships in Brisbane. They worked intensively on technique, musicality, lead and follow, performance quality and competition preparation.
A private dance lesson date night is a relaxed shared experience for couples who want to do something more memorable than dinner or drinks. You do not need dance experience or a long-term training goal - the lesson is tailored to the two of you, with plenty of time to learn, laugh and move together.
Private dance lesson for two
Whether it is a first date, an anniversary or simply a different way to spend an ordinary date night, plenty of couples take their first dance steps with us in a private lesson. No experience is required and there is no pressure to perform - just an hour learning, laughing and moving together.
Private wedding dance lessons can take you from complete beginner to a first dance that feels natural, personal and achievable. Coaching can include choreography, musical timing, partnering, entrances, dips and the practical skills needed to feel comfortable dancing in front of your guests.
Ashveen & Graciela - 10 lesson Bachata wedding program
In early 2021, Ashveen and Graciela came to us with no dance experience and, in their own words, “two left feet”. They wanted a specifically Bachata-style first dance to Señorita to honour Graciela's heritage. Across 10 private lessons we built the dance from the ground up until they could enjoy performing it confidently on their wedding day.
Advanced private dance coaching is designed for experienced and competitive dancers who need detail beyond a general class: choreography development, technical refinement, musical interpretation, synchronisation, performance quality and targeted preparation for competition or stage work.
Chloe & Catalina - 6 months advanced choreography coaching
Chloe and Catalina undertook six months of advanced-level choreography coaching with Kristi for their first year competing in the Professional division. Their training focused on choreography, technique, musicality, synchronisation, performance quality and the detail required at an advanced competitive level.
Online private dance coaching makes specialist instruction accessible when geography limits the coaches available locally. Zoom lessons can be used for choreography, technique, musicality, styling and competition preparation, with detailed feedback and training priorities to continue working on between sessions.
David & Andrey - Cairns to Brisbane
Living in Cairns means opportunities for regular top-level Latin dance coaching can be limited. For three years, David and Andrey have trained remotely with Kristi, using online private lessons to prepare choreography, technique, musicality and performance for the annual Australian Championships in Brisbane.
All of their competition routines were choreographed by Kristi Hall.
You do not need to arrive with a training plan. Tell us what you would like to be able to do and we can shape the lesson around you.
Private lessons take place in our dedicated home-studio in Molendinar on the Gold Coast - a quiet, focused space with timber flooring, mirrors and room to work on the details without the distractions of a busy group class.
Full arrival details are provided with your booking confirmation.
Private coaching is also available via Zoom, so you can work with an Elite instructor from home or wherever you are. Online lessons are personalised in the same way as studio coaching and can focus on technique, movement, styling, musicality or choreography.
All lessons are 60 minutes. Choose individual coaching for one person, or learn together as a pair.
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