Janice Cater
Director & Dance Instructor - Owner

"Mrs. Janice" is married with 3 grown children. "Mrs. Janice" studied dance in Nashville, Tennessee for 16 years. At the age of 18, she worked as assistant-choreographer at Western Kentucky in Bowling Green on "Bye-Bye Birdie" and "South Pacific".

In Nashville, she belonged to the Circle Theatre and Theatre Nashville where she was a performer as well as assistant-choreographer in "Kiss Me Kate", "Guys & Dolls", and George Gershwin's "Of Thee I Sing".

She has studied in New York with Luigi & Benny Smith. She has also studied with with Nico Charise. In Atlanta she studied with Dance Masters of America and Dance Educators of America through whom she was internationally certified in 1975.

Janice served as secretary-treasurer of the Southeast Chapter of the National Association of Dance and Affiliated Artists for four years. She was Dance Superintendent for the Metro Board of Parks and Recreation of Nashville and Davidson County for 2 ½ years where she established the dance program for 32 communities' centers. She was also a chartered member of the Tennessee Performing Arts Council.

She has been in Georgia since 1969 and in Winder since 1971. She and her husband, Monte, opened Studio One for the Performing Arts in September of 1984.

Locally, she has worked as choreographer with the Winder-Barrow and Apalachee High School Drama Departments for 15 years.

She was a director for the Barrow County Chamber of Commerce for 1 year and Chairman of the Community Development. Janice is still quite involved in the community and her church.

Jackie Taynor
Dance Instructor

Miss Jackie joined Studio One nine years ago and has become one of our most beloved teachers. Miss Jackie has been dancing most of her life. She has studied tap, jazz as well as ballet. But her favorite is the ballet. She graduated from Brenau with a Bachelor of Fine Arts degree in Dance Pedagogy. She danced with the Gainesville Ballet for four years. Some of Jackie’s other dance experiences include:

  • Member of the Gwinnett Dance Ensemble while in high school performing in The Jungle Book and International Celebration of Dance among many others.
  • Member of the Brenau Dance Ensemble while in college performing in the annual concert and the Fall Festival in the Gainesville Square.
  • Performer in An Evening of Dance - a student choreographed show at Brenau.
  • Performer in many Showcases, which are small performances organized by students at Brenau.
  • Participated in classes from guest teachers such as Gus Solomons, Jr., Karen Brown and guest artists with the Mark Morris Dance Company while at Brenau.
  • Teacher’s Assistant and backstage help during the American College Dance Festival hosted by Brenau in 2000.

Her sweet disposition and patience are some of her best virtues. But her talent to teach ballet is a close behind. She teaches pre-school, beginner tap & balllet as well as modern,lyrical, pointe & ballet classes. She also certified to teach Pilates which will begin in the Summer. 

We are very proud to have her with our family.

Edwina Lowe
Dance Instructor

We welcome our newest instructor. Edwina graduated from FSU with a degreein Finance, then decided she wanted to pursue her passion "Dance". She has studied with Mia Michaels, Dee Caspary as well as Hope Boykin of the Alvin Ailey Dance Theatre. She began dance at the age of 3 and has continued to grow as a Dancer, Performer and Choreographer. She has appeared in many music videos and worked with some of today's hottest entertainers. Edwina now wants to share her talent with our students & to teach them the great joy she receives from her love of dance. Her favorite saying is "a dancer is not great because of their technique, but because of their passion". She will be teaching hip hop, Jazz III, Adult jazz & Jr. & Sr. Companies. This fall she will offer an aerobic/salsa class. We are so fortunate & extremely pleased to welcome Miss Edwina Lowe to our family.
Courtney Knisley
Tap Instructor

Courtney is presently in College pursuing career in Pharmacy. She studied at Studio One from the age of 3 until graduation from High School. She rejoined our Studio last year as Jr. Company Instructor, Adult Tap & Tap instructor. Her studies will limit her this year as far as teaching is concerned. We are very lucky to have her back Home. She is definitely a very gifted dancer and Instructor.


Tuition and Other Fees

A once-a-year registration fee of $20.00 is due with registration.

Tuition is $45.00 a month for the first class enrolled and $35.00 for each additional class and is due by the first lesson of each month.  (late charges will be: 1 week late - $10.00; 1 month late - $25.00)
A $35.00 fee will be assessed on all returned checks. 

Costumes will be ordered in January and costume money is due at that time. Cost-notices will go out the middle of December. Money will be due the 2nd week in January. Costumes will not be ordered unless they have been paid for by the deadline.

A recital fee of $60 is due in May. If you have more than 1 child in dance, the second child's fee is $50.00 & the 3rd child will be $45.00 (This will include 2 parent tickets per family dancing plus 1
additional  ticket for each additional child.)

Attire

ALL STUDENTS  ARE TO WEAR LEOTARDS & TIGHTS for all classes. NO PANTY-HOSE. Students that take a ballet-only-class MUST wear a black leotard & pink tights. Students taking tap or jazz only, must wear a leotard/tights & black jazz pants.
Company-dancers must wear Company leotard, tights and/or jazz pants.
NO JEANS OR SHORTS OF ANY KIND

PLEASE HAVE ALL STUDENT'S HAIR PULLED-UP AND OUT OF THE FACE.

All dance shoes should be in a dance-bag of some sort. (Loose shoes will get misplaced and cause confusion for the smaller students). PLEASE HAVE NAMES ON ALL SHOES AND DANCE BAGS.