Smiths Dancing School has been providing expert ballroom instruction and a wide variety of dance since our founding. It is our mission to provide a creative environment to explore and enjoy dancing. We have the most experienced, certified staff covering all levels, styles, and techniques of dancing. Most important we are all dedicated to you, our customer, to have fun...

Owners

Martin and Desire'e Smith left their home country South Africa in November 1999, as Kwazulu Natal Provincial Professional Ballroom Champions. They owned their own dance studio for more than 10 years proving to be the top studio in both social and competition dancing in their province.

Their first 2 years in New York State they worked for Arthur Murray Dance Studios and Fred Astaire Dance Studios. In August 2004 they opened their own dancing studio, “Smiths Dancing School” in Hawthorne, New York.

They are both highly qualified with the Imperial Society of Teachers of Dance (ISTD), the most prestigious and respected dance association in the world. They are able to teach all 5 styles of Ballroom dance. They enjoy teaching all ages, including adults and children, young and old, both competitively and socially, in group and private sessions.

They currently demonstrate in all styles and compete in the International Ballroom instruction discipline.

Certifications

Associate/Certified dance Director and Adjudicator

Licentiate International Ballroom & Latin American

Member/Licentiate American Style Ballroom & Rhythm

ISTD [UK & USA]

NATD [UK]

USTA

Members of NDCA

Independent Instructors

All instructors using our facility are highly trained and certified with experience in all Ballroom and Latin American styles:

Vitaly Novikov