Vogler's Studios of Dance, Baton, and Gymnastics

We are located on the South end of Old Town Shopping Center beside Dollar General. The Shopping Center with Food Lion on Reynolda Road.

PHONE (336)922-3547, e-mail at MrRobert@voglerdancer.com

On the web at www.voglerdancer.com (be sure to look at recital pictures and parade pictures)

Thank-you for your recent call about classes at Vogler’s Studio of Dance, Baton, and Gymnastics. I am still accepting students for the classes that began August 22, 2009. There are openings in all the classes. You are invited to just show up and dance. If you wish to just watch any of the beginner classes you may. You may also come watch my second year four year olds Thursdays at 4 PM or my second year five year olds Thursdays at 5:30 PM. If you come by during class you get to see actual students in class but I won't be able to answer any questions. If you want to ask questions you must come by at the end of the teaching day. Mondays at 8:30 PM, Tuesdays at 7:30 PM, Wednesdays at 11 AM and 7 PM, Thursdays at 8 PM, and Saturdays at 1:15 PM. If you do not have time to visit you may borrow a copy of one of my DVD’s to take home and watch at your convenience.
Even though classes have been meeting for a few months it is still possible to join class. At the beginning of the year I would have an entire classroom of young girls who had no idea why they were even there. When your daughter joins class this time of year she has a room of examples to follow. Disciplined dance students who know how to take class. If they all hop like bunnies she will hop like a bunny. If they all put their arms up for a ballerina doll turn, she will put her arms up for a ballerina doll turn. Children this age will magically imitate the other children their age. If those children are taking dance class, your daughter will learn how to take dance class. If your daughter is interested in dancing bring her to class and she will enjoy learning to dance, twirl, and tumble or I will refund your registration fee and First month's tuition.

A new year of Dance classes will begin for 3 and 4 year old girls August 22, 2009.

Wednesday 9:30 AM or
Wednesday 5:30 PM or
Saturday 10:30 AM

This 90 minute class consists of one hour dance and 30 minutes floor exercise gymnastics (tumbling).

The one hour of dance includes elements of ballet, tap dancing, baton twirling, and creative movement. I utilize a musical theater, song and dance environment to foster participation and enjoyment. During class we sing and dance to songs about animals, nursery rhymes, story songs, weather songs, Sesame Street songs, Disney songs, Barney songs, and fantasy songs about dancing . I am not a singing teacher but my entire class revolves around music that this age child can relate to and dance with. Music literally drives the class. My goal is for each child to grasp that dance expresses music.

The gymnastics portion of the class is tumbling skills that begin the year in a “taking turns” format that usually evolves into a “game” format as their repertoire of skills increases. These include rolls, headstands, handstands, beginner cartwheels, and arch skills.

PRICE

Monthly tuition is $48 per month based on $12.00 per class. There is a $20 registration fee.

I guarantee your child will enjoy my classes or I will refund your registration fee and first month's tuition.

Payments may be made at paypal.com to the account of rjordan124@triad.rr.com.

CLASS SIZE

My average class for this age group is eleven students. Sixteen students is the most I will enroll.

Typical Class Lesson Plan

First 15 minute - Students arrive in ballet shoes and we immediately begin with dances and songs that the students have demonstrated that they enjoy doing.

Next 10 minutes - New material of the Day. A new skill, a new song, a new dance, a new step, or new exercise; then CHANGE SHOES.

Next 10 minutes - to keep class moving I let the first child with her tap shoes on ( I tie them) choose the first song and we immediately start back into material they have demonstrated an affinity for.

Next 10 minutes - New material or especially planned review of last week’s new material for those who were absent. I did tap first last week. GET BATONS.

Next 10 minutes - Review of baton twirls with individual students taking turns leading. Marching around room with individual students taking turns leading. CHANGE SHOES, PUT UP BATONS, DRINK WATER AT WATER FOUNTAIN.

Next 25-30 minutes - Gymnastics skills on mats. We generally warm up with skills they choose from past lessons and I then lead into the New Material for the Day. Students in the age group practice one at a time initially but by the end of the year there are games and skill rotations around the classroom. DISMISS CLASS.

SPECTATORS

I DO allow and encourage up to two adults to observe any class during the year. You should probably wait 4 to 6 weeks initially before observing. It can be difficult in those first few classes to transfer authority to the teacher if the parent is present.

DRESS FOR CLASS

Beginning dance students wear a black leotard, white tights that are not shiny, white ballet shoes, black tap shoes, and they twirl a Starline brand baton. I do not require you buy dance wear from me but I can completely outfit a beginner for $75 including tax.

RECITAL

The beginner classes will each perform two dances in our Thirty-second annual Spring Recital June 6, 2010 at the Stevens Center. I believe having a performance at the end of the year helps give meaning and value to the students’ experience. Performing motivates students to learn before the show and accelerates their desire to learn after the show. We usually order costumes in January. Beginners need only one costume. Last year they cost $46.50 plus tax.

PARADES

The Vogler Studio Parade Corps has been twirling in Christmas parades since 1978. In 2008 we twirled batons and danced to music in parades in Winston-Salem, Rural Hall, and Lewisville. The Winston Salem Journal featured a picture our group on the front page of the Local Section in the Sunday Paper. High Point awarded the “Outstanding Majorette Award” to us in 1990, ‘93, ‘96, ’97, ‘98, 99, 2000, 2001, 2002,2003, and 2004. This year plan to watch but I would expect you to perform with us next year.

WHO TEACHES THE CLASSES?

Hello, my name is Robert Jordan and I teach all the classes at Vogler’s Studio in Oldtown. My wife of 35 years, Kathy Vogler Jordan, is my only substitute teacher. We have three children: Richard, 25 years old, Cherie, 23 years old, and Lana Loraine, 14 years old.

My wife and I founded Vogler ‘s Studio in 1978 in Welcome, N.C. Since then I have devoted myself full time to teaching young children to dance. I believe my best reference now is my students. I invite you to talk to parents of my current students , come by to watch a class, or borrow a videotape of one of our performances.

I am certified to teach the Performing Arts by Dance Educators of America (ballet, tap and jazz), to teach ballet, tap, jazz, and acrobatics by Dance Masters of America, and I am also a certified United States Association of Independent Gymnastics Clubs Coach. I have a BA degree from the school of Education at N.C. State University. I am constantly training with other dance teachers to refine my teaching and keep up with new teaching methods. I opened Vogler’s Studio in Oldtown in 1983.

I teach all my classes myself. I do not hire anyone to teach any class for me. If you come to Vogler’s Studio either I will teach your class or my wife Kathy Vogler Jordan will. I believe this is important. I have found that once I have established a rapport with a student after teaching them one subject or one year it is very easy to teach them another subject or the next year. I enjoy seeing my students progress over the years.

Why begin at Three (or Four)?

It is a joy to teach students this young who respond so completely to everything I say and do. They are truly learning as they are growing. What they can't physcally do in November they will easily accomplish in February. Skills they learn at this age become a natural part of their life. But, it would be easy for an outsider to watch class and to wonder "Just how much have they learned?". For anyone who asks I invite them to watch my second year four year olds. They return to class in August after performing on stage and getting their trophy. They come to their first class in August so motivated I can hardly hold them back. After every song I teach for fun they ask "Can we do this in the show?". Whatever I ask, they do. There is a certain maturity and understanding. THEY KNOW HOW TO TAKE CLASS!! The first year four year olds don't do much more than first year three year olds but the second year four year olds fly. I can accomplish five times more material during the same time period.All of my most successful students began with me when they were three or four.