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Professional Dance Studio Flooring
Minimise risk and enhance performance with professional dance flooring whether you need a permanent or portable tap dance floor.
Harlequin’s Dance Studio Flooring
Harlequin offer a range of permanent, semi-permanent and portable dance flooring for studios used by dancers of all genres. From global dance companies to local dance schools and professional home studios, dance studio floors are a fundamental investment in your dancers health and wellbeing.
Designed and installed by industry specialists, give your dancers the confidence to practice and perform in your studio space with Harlequin’s dance studio floors.
For further information, advice and support, please contact our technical sales team. Alternatively, call us on +44 (0)1892 514 888 where a member of our team will be happy to answer any questions you have about events flooring.
Importance of Dance Flooring for Studios
Investing in the right type of dance flooring for your studio is important for your dancer’s health and wellbeing. The right dance flooring system will allow your dancers and teachers to practise and perform safely and with confidence while preventing the occurrence of slips, falls and micro-injuries.
Each style of dance has unique requirements of the dancer and the dance surface. Because of this, different dance styles require different types of dance studio flooring to best support the dancer. When investing in a dance floor for your studio space, it is important to consider what styles of dance will be practised in your space.
Percussive dance styles such as tap, Irish dancing and Flamenco will require dance floors that deliver a clean, crisp sound upon impact to support the performance. Whereas ballet studio flooring needs to provide sufficient traction to avoid slips and falls while also allowing for freedom of movement.
Installing the right flooring for the demands of your studio will allow your dancers to practise sequences with confidence, giving them greater mastery over their performance. While also allowing you to create and maintain a professional environment for your dancers and performers.
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Harlequin’s experience and expertise in dance
Harlequin is widely recognised as the world’s leading authority on dance floors. Harlequin has always worked closely with the dance community to develop floors that dancers want to dance on. Flooring products in the Harlequin portfolio have evolved to meet the specific needs of a particular dance style and have been developed in conjunction with dancers themselves.
Aware of the high injury level among dancers, Harlequin is an active supporter of IADMS (International Association for Dance Medicine and Science) and of NIDMS (National Institute of Dance Medicine and Science). NIDMS, through shared expertise and a network of multidisciplinary partners, is working to provide better and more affordable access for all dancers to high quality, evidence-based, dance specific health care and dance science supported services.
Harlequin also provides backing and support for research work and is leading the quest for a relevant international standard for dance floors that can, in due course be referred to in specification documents. Meanwhile the information derived from research studies already informs new product development.
We also offer stage building and refurbishment services for large-scale professional performances as well as historic buildings and ballet wagons.
Related FAQs
Can you install my floor for me?
Our vinyl and sprung dance floors can be fitted by our highly-skilled technical team as part of our total package to ensure your new floor is correctly installed and is fully compliant with current regulations and standards. We also offer services in specialised stage building for larger venues or ballet wagons. Contact us for further information.
What type of surface or sub-floor can a Harlequin vinyl floor be laid on?
A Harlequin vinyl floor can be laid onto most level sub-floors, including concrete, wood or tiles, although we don’t advise laying onto carpet. If a sub-floor is not level or is unacceptably hard, then a Harlequin sprung floor can be used in conjunction with a Harlequin performance surface (vinyl floor, hardwood or engineered board). If you are worried whether your existing floor is suitable, please contact us to discuss your requirements.
How can a Harlequin vinyl floor be laid?
A permanent vinyl floor is stuck down with adhesive and can’t be removed without risking damage to the floor. A semi-permanent vinyl floor is loose-laid using double-sided tape and then welded at the seams. The seams can later be cut and the floor taken up. A portable vinyl floor is rolled out and the seams are either covered with tape or temporarily secured to the sub-floor on the underside with double-sided tape.
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