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)
Unfortunately it is too late to join class this year. I will have a schedule by April for classes beginning August 25, 2012. I will begin taking registrations then.
If you wish to watch a class you may visit one of the classes that were created in August meeting Thursday at 9:30 AM, Thursday at 6 PM, Wednesday at 4 PM, and Saturday at 11:30 PM. You also may be interested in watching my youngest second year students Saturdays at 10 AM. Wednesday at 5:30 PM is five and six year olds who started last year. When you come by to watch a class I'll be teaching and not available to answer questions. If you wish to ask questions drop by at the end of the teaching day. Monday 8:15 PM, Tuesday and Thursday at 7:30 PM, Wednesday at 8 PM, and Saturday at 1 PM.
I also have DVD's you may take home to watch. Just ask to borrow one. On this website homepage just click 'Recital Pictures' to see photos of girls this age in last year's show. Click 'videos' to see actual girls dancing in our 2011 performance. On the title page I list the age of the girls performing.
I am currently creating a schedule for next year. I will post that schedule in April and begin taking registrations then for classes beginning August 2012.
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 $50 per month based on $12.50 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, 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 $86.00 including tax.
RECITAL
The beginner classes will each perform two dances in our Thirty-fourth annual Spring Recital May 27, 2012 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 2011 we twirled batons and danced to music in parades in Winston-Salem, Rural Hall, and Lewisville. This year plan to watch but I would expect you to perform with us next year.
On the home page click 'parades' to see a video from 2010. Click 'parade pictures' to see photos taken during the 2010 season.
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 38 years, Kathy Vogler Jordan, is my only substitute teacher. We have three children: Richard, 30 years old, Cherie, 26 years old, and Lana Loraine, 17 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.
