- Lindsay Lear-Nickum, Director/Owner of Connect Dance Project·
We had the pleasure of having Delaney Mena come to our studio for a strength and conditioning intensive, and our dancers absolutely loved working with her. Delaney is incredibly kind, patient, knowledgeable, and detail-oriented, and she has a truly unique ability to translate strength and conditioning into something that is directly applicable to dancers and their technique.
What impressed us most was her ability to help dancers understand their bodies in a completely different way. She was able to break down movements, teach them how to isolate and properly engage specific muscle groups, and help them understand how building strength and stability can directly improve their dance technique. Her attention to detail and individualized corrections made the work incredibly valuable for dancers at different levels.
Just as importantly, Delaney knows how to connect with dancers. Strength and conditioning isn’t always the part of training that dancers are most excited about, but she made it engaging, challenging, and fun. Our dancers were completely invested throughout the intensive and left excited about what they had learned and how they could apply it to their dancing.
Delaney brings such a wonderful combination of expertise, patience, positivity, and an obvious understanding of the specific physical demands placed on dancers. She was an incredible addition to our dancers’ training, and they are already asking when she is coming back. We cannot wait to have her at our studio again! - Brooke Mattern·
Delaney Mena is an incredible dance strength trainer! My daughter has worked with her for nearly a year, and the build in her overall strength has made a significant difference in her tricks. Delaney is so intentional and focused, ensuring every dancer gets individual attention and feedback even in an online group setting. Highly recommend!
- Kayla Vess·
Delaney's customized program has had such a positive impact on my daughter's stability and strength. Delaney identifies potential areas of improvement and develops an individual program/ exercises to refine and correct those areas! My dancer is stronger and more confident overall working with Delaney! I cant wait to see her continued progress!
- Bella·
Delaney is an amazing teacher! She not only helps me grow stronger through strength and conditioning classes but really shows genuine care for me personally. I love my time with her whenever I get to learn from her!
- Charity·
My daughter started taking Delaney’s Dancer Fit classes in Sept. My daughter has loved every moment. She finishes class sweaty, tired and happy. The classes have been that missing link to help her build that stability and strength needed to really shine. My daughter loves the Delaney class so much that any and all extra Delaney classes that don’t interfere with her studio class she wants to take. My daughter feels confident heading into comp season and she is finally starting the get the scores and recognition she’s been craving. She’s getting lots of comments on how incredible her control is too. Dance studios just don’t have the time to add this kind of training into an already jam packed schedule. Delaney’s classes are the perfect way to supplement studio training, I also love being able stay home and do zoom classes plus they are very reasonably priced. Highly recommend!
- Kim Bea·
I have had both my daughters take Delaney's condition cans strength classes. my youngest is a dancer and my oldest plays volleyball. My daughters enjoy her class she's paid attention to each student. Her classes are fun and challenging for all levels of athletes. She pays attention and corrects so the technique is and less chance of injury
- Lauren Dunn·
My daughter has been consistently doing Delaney’s group classes for a few months now. She absolutely loves them! Delaney gives clear directions in a way that all ages can understand and gives individual corrections throughout the class. Strength training was hard for us to fit into her schedule and we are so thankful we found Delaney and her classes. Highly recommend!
- Elyse Rycroft·
My daughter has worked with Delaney weekly for almost two wonderful years in one on one sessions and group classes. Delaney is professional, kind, engaging, and extremely knowledgeable at understanding how to best build a dancer’s strength. My daughter loves her time with Delaney and has become so much stronger in multiple areas (alignment, mobility, turns, and more). The care she takes towards helping my daughter achieve her goals is unmatched and we’ve seen it reflected positively in the studio and on stage!
- Kayla Kuprian·
I have been training with Delaney since May. I attend her weekly dancer fit sessions. Delaney has helped me get stronger and truly reach my potential. I truly recommend!!
- Thitima Kuprian·
My daughter has started to work with Delaney in September of last year. She has never wanted to try zoom classes before but after taken one of her intensive in person I’m the summer she wanted to try it with zoom because she wanted to be able to continue training with her. She’s very attentive and my daughter has improved so much with her strength and flexibility. She’s looking forward to her class every week.