Between balancing dance courses with tutorial necessities and rehearsal schedules with finding out, school dance college students have a lot on their minds. What shouldn’t be added to that record? Whether or not the studio flooring they’re spending their days on will trigger damage or discomfort.
Due to Harlequin Flooring, college students and professors at a rising variety of schools know that once they enter the studio every day, they’re being supported from the bottom up. Members of Marymount Manhattan College and Arizona State College’s dance departments lately shared their experiences dancing on Harlequin Flooring.
Marymount Manhattan School
“Having spent a number of years within the summers touring to small studios that haven’t spent the cash on sprung flooring, and educating for 4 or 5 hours, you actually really feel the distinction within the shins and the ft. There’s a type of achiness that takes on. However right here at Marymount, after I’m in rehearsal for 2 or three hours, and I’ve taught for 3 hours within the morning, I don’t have the identical impact. So, I believe that’s very a lot because of the flooring.”
—Nancy Lushington, Assistant Chair of Dance
“Having a flooring that helps dancers in all totally different types—with the ability to be in your ballet footwear versus pointe footwear, jazz footwear, and we spend quite a lot of time barefoot right here and in socks in our modern and trendy works—is basically vital. It’s been a really useful factor to have at Marymount, as a result of we’re so versatile as dancers.”
—Summer season Hatcher, BFA in Dance, 2025
“There are simply no points with the service and the standard of what we get from Harlequin. I used to be lucky to have many alternatives to bop on a Harlequin Flooring, and I had a protracted profession. Nonetheless dancing.”
—Nancy Lushington, Assistant Chair of Dance
Arizona State College
“As a dance educator, I imagine it’s extremely vital to create secure areas for our dancers to discover their artwork type, and by providing them alternatives to bop on Harlequin Flooring, we’re actually investing in them with the ability to dance for his or her complete lives.”
—Nicole Bradley Browning, Scientific Assistant Professor of Dance
“It’s extraordinarily vital that we begin creating the areas for sustainability and longevity. I come throughout a variety of younger dancers who’re complaining about knee accidents and Achilles being broken. How are they ever speculated to carry this artwork type ahead if we’re not creating a cushty and secure area for our learners to proceed to develop who they’re?”
—Shola Ok. Roberts, Assistant Professor of Dance
“After I’m dancing on Harlequin Flooring, I actually don’t have to fret about accidents or tripping over any a part of the marley. Harlequin Flooring, I’ve seen, enable me to only dance in my full capability and actually interact with class.”
—J.P. Alejandro, MFA in Dance
“When the door opens and dancers are available in and lie on the ground it’s virtually like they arrive right into a sacred area, and we don’t know what’s going to unfold, however it’s going to be lovely.”
—Nicole Bradley Browning, Scientific Assistant Professor of Dance
