About Us Star Maker School Philosophy Our Fleminton studio offers three studio rooms that are fully heated and air-conditioned. Our dance rooms, studios A and C, have large, suspended, oak dance floors to insure safe and proper footing during training. Studio A has been recently renovated creating a much larger dance space for choreography. Our ballet room has beautiful varnished wood barres and a high ceiling. Both dance rooms are furnished with top quality sound systems and floor to ceiling mirrored walls. Our music room, Studio B, is complete with a Concert Korg Electric Piano with weighted keys, music stands, and space for guitars, drum pads, etc. The room sits off the waiting area and is lined with sound proofing. A large window covered with blinds to open or close for an airy atmosphere makes for a pleasant learning environment. The waiting area in studio A and B is comfortable and equipped with a monitoring system that allows parents to watch the entire dance class on a television. Students can focus on learning and need not be concerned with an audience of parents. Parents can watch all that goes on in class every week, if they choose. Star Maker employs only high quality, certified, professional instructors. We hire experienced staff only, who instruct using caring and motivational methods. Many of our teachers specialize in a given area. All of our staff are experienced in writing competitive choreography for dancers in our performing units. They also are capable of writing challenging work for our beginner and recreational students. Technique is a priority. And confidence-building methods are used to enhance student performance level. Master classes are offered numerous times during the year. Star Maker brings in professional dancers presently performing on Broadway or teaching in NYC to instruct master classes. This past season master classes were offered in Ballet, Pointe, and Jazz and Tap. Star Maker also has a wonderful teacher-training program in place since 1987. This program puts young dancers who aspire to teach in an assistant teacher position. This benefits the students in many ways; it allows for a smaller student to teacher ratio and gives the serious dancer a chance to learn the education aspect of the field. Certified teacher to student ratio ranges from one teacher to 5-9 students at age 3,4 to 7-13 students at age 5-11 to 7-20 students for ages 12 and up. In classes with more than 12 students, Star Maker adds a student teacher to the classroom. Many smaller size classes also are equipped with a student teacher assistant. Star Maker sponsors the performing organization, The Entertainers Baton and Dance Company. The group, founded in 1975, is a non-profit organization registered with the State of New Jersey that is dedicated to youth performance and development through all phases of dance and baton twirling. The Entertainers is made up of young girls and boys between the ages of 5 and 24. The Entertainers have performed at Nets and 76'ers Halftimes, the Garden State Bowl Halftime, Julliard School of Music Comic Opera, The Hero in 1980, the 1982 World's Fair in Tennessee, in Disney World, Epcot Center, Universal Studios Florida, Denmark, and the former Soviet Union in Moscow and Leningrad. The group also has performed for nursing homes and hospitals every year since its founding.
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