Harlequin Floors implemented in new Memphis dance center
Harlequin Floors recently partnered with the Collage Dance Collective in Memphis, Tennessee, to help design and fit their new Andrea Louise Jenkins Center for Dance.
The new breathtaking center features floor-to-ceiling windows, rafters painted in calm shades of blue, and stunning, brown-toned Harlequin dance floors. The center chose to utilize Harlequin’s Woodspring®️ sprung floor systems. For performance surfaces on the sprung floors, they chose Harlequin Studio™ for the spaces dedicated to ballet, Harlequin Cascade™ with BioCote® for multi-purpose studios, and a prefinished maple hardwood for its studios with tap classes. Collage’s facilities also use Harlequin Wall-Mounted and Freestanding Ballet Barres.
The dancers’ “safety and well-being is one of my top priorities,” says co-founder and Executive Director Marcellus Harper, “so installing premier dance flooring where our professional ballet company and more than 400 students within our conservatory train each week was very important to me. Utilizing Harlequin WoodSpring® sprung floor systems in our studios is one of the intentional ways we invest in the well-being and dreams of the diverse professional artists and budding dancers we serve.”
Founded in 2006 in New York City before finding its current home in Memphis, Tennessee, Collage Dance Collective is a ballet company and conservatory that aims to inspire the growth and diversity of ballet, provide a platform for professional dancers of color, and expand access to classical training to communities of color.
To learn more about the new Andrea Louise Jenkins Center for Dance, and how Harlequin helped design their new space, you can read the full article here.
You can learn more about this project in our two video testimonials: