Houston Ballet Center for Dance | Gensler
Houston Ballet?s Center for Dance is a visual reminder of Houston?s commitment to the performing arts and a living billboard for dance. Gensler?s design draws inspiration from a proscenium stage, showcasing classes and rehearsals through large windows into double-height-volume rehearsal studios. Home to Houston Ballet and its Academy, the six-story, 115,000 sq ft building boasts nine dance studios, a dance laboratory and artistic, administrative and support facilities. It is also the largest dance education facility in the United States.
The airy, spacious interior features double-height studios that offer interior views of rehearsing dancers and maximize the building?s spectacular views of Houston. Interior sight lines engender openness, activity, and collaboration. In its old facility, professional dancers were largely separated from students and administrative staff. The new facility fosters innovation by offering a multitude of spaces for dancers, students, teachers and administrators to interact and socialize.
The Center for Dance enables Houston Ballet to expand and enhance its education programs, which reach students from preschool through adulthood, including a program that leverages dance therapy for people with Parkinsons Disease. In addition to ballet classes, students have access to classes that introduce ballet performance production and even arts administration. State-of-the-art practice studios feature flooring supported on a basket-weave platform designed ...
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