Wings Dance Studio

Wings Dance Studio is a dance studio in Lockport, IL, offering classes in ballet, jazz, hip hop, and additional styles for children and adults. The studio hosts birthday parties and runs a Sweet 16 Program alongside its regular class schedules and registration. It holds a rating of 4.50 from its customers.

The studio is led by owner and Executive Director Shannon Labus, an Associate member of the Cecchetti Council of America who teaches the Cecchetti Method of ballet training, a syllabus developed by Italian Ballet Master Enrico Cecchetti. Shannon graduated from Illinois State University with a Bachelor of Arts and built progressive ballet and early childhood programs for studios throughout the South Suburbs before opening Wings Dance Studio in 2010. She is co-director of Soar Dance Company, serves as resident choreographer for the Lockport Homer Youth Theater, and since 2023 has been Artistic Director of Dance Theater of Will County. Wings Dance Studio was awarded ADCC Studio of Excellence in 2017. Shannon is a member of the Chicago National Association of Dance Masters, and her students have gone on to perform with Ballet West, the Joffrey Ballet, Moscow Ballet, and at Drury Lane, as well as to dance in college programs and on collegiate dance teams.

The studio sits on North State Street, with South Archer Avenue about a fifth of a mile south and New Avenue roughly half a mile away. Ludwig Elementary School is about a third of a mile from the studio, and Lockport Golf and Recreation Club and Legion Park are both within about three-quarters of a mile.

The positive rating from its customers reflects the studio's standing in the South Suburbs dance community, where it has trained both concert and competitive dancers since 2010.