International Latin and ballroom instruction · Illinois + Wisconsin
Ballroom Dance Lessons Across Illinois and Wisconsin.
Next Legacy Ballroom is the independent teaching partnership of Kye Rivers and Ann-Marie “Anna” Bakanov. They are working International Latin competitors who personally teach their students across rented floors in the Chicago suburbs, with limited dates in Madison, Wisconsin.
Last reviewed October 5, 2026. Current schedules and teaching-floor availability should be confirmed directly.
Next Legacy at a glance
The Competitors You See Are the Teachers You Get.
Kye and Anna do not hand students into a rotating instructor system. They personally teach Next Legacy lessons, plan the training, and carry each student’s history forward from lesson to lesson. Next Legacy is not a franchise and does not own its host studios.
- Business
- Next Legacy Ballroom
- Instructors
- Kye Rivers and Ann-Marie “Anna” Bakanov
- Primary specialty
- International Latin taught through an old-school English technical framework: cha-cha, samba, rumba, paso doble, and jive
- Lesson format
- Private lessons run 45 minutes and are taught personally by Kye and Anna; group and specialty formats vary by schedule
- Students served
- Adult beginners, returning and experienced dancers, youth dancers, couples, wedding clients, amateur competitors, collegiate dancers, and Pro-Am students
- Continuity
- A student can begin with fundamentals and continue with the same teaching partnership into International Latin development, performance preparation, or competition planning
- Standard lesson areas
- Prospect Heights and Glen Ellyn, Illinois, with limited teaching availability in Madison, Wisconsin
- Telephone
- 630-484-0087
- dance@nextlegacyballroom.com
Ballroom lesson services
One Program From First Count to Competition Floor.
The lesson type changes with the goal, but the teaching relationship does not. Kye and Anna build beginner fundamentals, youth development, collegiate coaching, Pro-Am training, wedding preparation, and competition planning inside one continuous program.
Private Ballroom Lessons
Forty-five-minute lessons taught by Kye and Anna for individuals or couples. The work may begin with timing and posture or narrow into foot pressure, balance, hip action, partnering, and performance detail.
Private lesson details →Adult and Group Learning
Adults learn the same technical principles used in serious training, broken down without lowering the standard. Group work adds repetition, musical awareness, and experience dancing around other people.
Adult lesson details →Youth Ballroom Training
Youth training joins careful technical correction with the camaraderie Kye and Anna want around their competitive students. Coordination, musicality, discipline, and artistry develop together.
Youth lesson details →Competitive and Pro-Am Coaching
Coaching extends beyond choreography. Kye and Anna connect technical development to practice priorities, performance preparation, event selection, and the practical competition-planning process.
Competitive coaching details →Wedding Dance Lessons
First-dance preparation is built around the couple’s actual music, timeline, comfort, floor, and appetite for choreography. Next Legacy teaches the dance; it does not offer song editing.
Wedding lesson details →International Latin Training
Cha-cha, samba, rumba, paso doble, and jive are taught through the precise, detail-led approach Kye describes as old-school English technique—not as isolated patterns to memorize.
International Latin guide →Teaching areas and venue relationships
One Teaching Business. Multiple Independent Floors.
Next Legacy handles its own instruction, student communication, published rates, and bookings. Host studios operate separately unless a current Next Legacy page explicitly states otherwise.
| Teaching area | Current arrangement | Student guidance |
|---|---|---|
| Prospect Heights, Illinois 60070 | MBM Dancesport Center, 746 Pinecrest Drive | Next Legacy independently rents floor space and handles its own lesson bookings and rates. |
| Glen Ellyn, Illinois 60137 | Strut Dance Studio, 860 W Roosevelt Road | Next Legacy independently rents floor space and handles its own lesson bookings and rates. |
| Madison, Wisconsin 53719 | Synergy Dance Academy, 549 Zor Shrine Place | Limited dates, currently described as selected Fridays. Confirm availability before traveling. |
Regional service area
Chicago Suburbs and Madison-Area Ballroom Training.
These cities and ZIP codes reflect the priority service area supplied by the team. A student may inquire from outside this list.
North and Northwest Suburbs
Northbrook 60062 · Deerfield 60015 · Wheeling 60090 · Glenview 60025 · Buffalo Grove 60089 · Palatine 60067 · Prospect Heights 60070 · Schaumburg 60173 · Mount Prospect 60056 · Hoffman Estates 60169 · Lincolnshire 60069 · Des Plaines 60016 · Vernon Hills 60061 · Mundelein 60060 · Park Ridge 60068 · Skokie 60076
West and DuPage Suburbs
Glen Ellyn 60137 · Westmont 60559 · Wheaton 60187 · Burr Ridge 60527 · Naperville 60540 · Elmhurst 60126 · La Grange 60525 · Villa Park 60181 · Oakbrook Terrace 60181 · Lisle 60532 · Oakbrook 60523 · Western Springs 60558 · Downers Grove 60515 · Clarendon Hills 60514 · Hinsdale 60521 · Woodridge 60517
Wisconsin availability: Limited ballroom and International Latin instruction is also offered in Madison 53719 on confirmed teaching dates.
Confirm availability →How Kye and Anna teach
Old-School English Method, Taught by Two Working Competitors.
Kye describes their technical base as an old-school English approach to International Latin: fundamentals are examined closely, corrected precisely, and repeated until they support the whole dance. Posture, timing, foot pressure, hip action, balance, partnering, and musicality are taught as connected decisions rather than separate tricks.
Because Kye and Anna are still active competitors, they can connect a technical note to the demands of practice, presentation, partnership, and the competition floor. The standard is serious, but the explanation stays human: students should leave knowing what changed, what to practice, and why the next step matters.
Read the complete training guide →Read the Dancer, Not a Sales Script
Experience, goals, movement, partnership, schedule, and learning style shape the first recommendation. The introductory lesson is a working lesson, not an upsell meeting.
Correct the Detail That Changes the Dance
Specific feedback and purposeful repetition turn technical ideas into movement the dancer can reproduce.
Keep the Path Continuous
The same teachers connect each correction to actual dancing, musicality, and the next goal, so students do not have to restart with a new program as their ambition grows.
Pricing and booking facts
Transparent Ballroom Lesson Pricing and Booking.
Next Legacy publishes the information a student needs before booking because Kye and Anna want the first conversation to be about the dancing—not a hidden package, membership, or sales meeting.
- Published rates
- Current standard private-lesson and group-class rates appear on the Pricing page.
- Separate expenses
- Competition entries, professional competition fees, costumes, travel, lodging, outside coaching, event charges, and custom-project expenses are separate when relevant.
- Enrollment terms
- There is no enrollment contract, membership fee, or pressure-driven upsell meeting for standard instruction.
- First lesson
- The introductory lesson is a working session: Kye and Anna learn the dancer’s goal, teach, observe how the student responds, and recommend a useful next step.
- Partner requirement
- A partner is not required. Students may inquire individually, with a partner, or as a parent or guardian for a youth dancer.
- How to inquire
- Use the Contact form, call 630-484-0087, or email dance@nextlegacyballroom.com.
Current schedules vary by teaching floor
Confirm the Right Lesson and Location.
Tell Kye and Anna who is training, the goal, current experience, preferred area, and when you would like to begin.