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The invisible partner: dance companies and studios discuss their floor choices.

Publication: Dance Magazine
Publication Date: 01-JUL-08 		Format: Online
Delivery: Immediate Online Access

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When Susan Glazer, director of the school of dance at Philadelphia's University of the Arts, needed floors for her new 10-studio building, she did a lot of research. She talked to international ballet companies with repertoires spanning several genres, met with architects to discuss optimal sub-flooring, and looked at options from every floormaker. But when it came time to choose, she threw research out the window and turned to the people who would be getting to know the floors the best--her 300 undergraduate dance majors.

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Trained in modern dance, Glazer loved dancing on a wood floor herself, so she asked the department's modern students to test wood as well as marley. To her surprise, they all preferred the latter. "I brought in four different kinds and had them test each barefoot, on pointe, and even...

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