We enrolled her at Ballet Calliente last year and while she had a short 5 minute performance, there was an actual dance. It wasn't very technical, but it involved more than just standing stationary and I was very impressed with it. The only reason it was 5 minutes had more to do with the number of kids at her level than the actual performance as it had been choreographed so that every child was in the front row once. As a parent I go to the performances to see my child and to a lesser extent the other children perform. I do not go to them to listen to an instructor talk about all of his personal accomplishments, none of them relating to actually teaching and spend most of the time watching him dance. In my opinion, he is more concerned with promoting himself than he is in actually teaching anyone. Ballet Calliente's recital overall made the BAA one look like a joke. It was very well choreographed and entertaining. My experience between these 2 schools has been like night and day, plus my daughter really enjoys going to class now.