Learn in a Comfortable, Supportive Setting

Ballroom dance lessons with Peter Kadel are designed to be enjoyable, encouraging, and tailored to your goals. Whether you want to feel more confident on the dance floor, prepare for a special event, dance socially, or train for competition, Peter can help you develop skill, style, and confidence.

The teaching environment is comfortable, and rates are competitive.

Why Ballroom Dance?

Ballroom dancing offers much more than learning steps.

It is an enjoyable form of physical activity that can improve coordination, balance, posture, and overall fitness. Research also suggests that dancing may benefit emotional well-being by helping reduce stress, anxiety, and symptoms of depression while improving self-esteem and overall quality of life.

And just as important, dancing is social.

The Philadelphia area offers many opportunities to enjoy ballroom dancing, meet new people, attend social dances, and become part of an active dance community.

Interested in Competition or Professional Certification?

Peter also works with serious students, competitors, and dance professionals.

He has trained professional dance teachers for Associate, Licentiate, and Fellowship qualifications in ballroom dancing and has served as a trainer for both professional and amateur dancers. He has judged ballroom dance competitions and has taught internationally, including guest teaching engagements in Beijing, Shanghai, and Qingdao, China, as well as in Cuba and Germany.

Whether your goal is to improve your competitive dancing, prepare for professional examinations, or take your technique to a higher level, Peter brings decades of teaching and coaching experience to the process.

(See the Ballroom Dance Lessons and the About page for more details)

Getting Married?

Make Your First Dance Unforgettable

Your First Dance should feel like you.

Peter has created hundreds of unique wedding dance routines, each designed around the couple’s personalities, experience, preferences, and choice of music. Whether you want something elegant and traditional, relaxed and romantic, or lively and entertaining, your wedding dance lessons will be tailored specifically to you.

Your choreography can include a memorable entrance, graceful movement around the dance floor, special highlights throughout the routine, and a beautiful finish—all designed to look natural rather than overly rehearsed.

How Many Lessons Will You Need?

For couples who want to feel comfortable and confident with a fully choreographed First Dance, we generally recommend at least five hours of private instruction. Starting early gives you time to learn the routine at a comfortable pace and enjoy the process rather than feeling rushed as the wedding approaches.

Peter can choreograph your dance to the song of your choice, or help you select music and a dance style that work especially well together.

More Than Just the First Dance

We can also create dances for other members of the wedding party, including:

• Father–daughter dances
• Mother–son dances
• Bridesmaids and groomsmen
• The entire wedding party
• Ring bearers and flower girls
• Other family members and special combinations

Group wedding dance lessons can be a wonderful way to bring everyone together before the big day—and they are often as much fun to prepare as they are to perform.

Your Dance. Your Music. Your Moment.

Peter takes pride in making every wedding dance distinctive. Rather than teaching every couple the same routine, he creates a dance that suits you, your music, your abilities, and the kind of moment you want to create on your wedding day.