Facility. Dept. of Dance. WMU.

Facilities Department of Dance. College of Fine Arts. WMU. Kalamazoo MI
Dance students take class in the outstanding dance studios in the Dorothy U. Dalton Center, home of the Department of Dance and the School of Music. Two large studios and one medium studio are available for technique courses and rehearsals. Each is equipped with a piano, percussion instruments, and sound playback units. A small studio is available for warm-up and solo and duet rehearsals. "Floating" floors in all studios, all covered with specialized vinyl dance flooring, help provide a safe environment for performance of challenging dance repertory.
	Two classrooms, a conditioning room, locker rooms, a computer lab, and faculty and department offices supplement the beautiful studios. The conditioning room is equipped with three Current Concepts^tmStudio Reformers, an exercise mat, mirrors and anatomical charts. Locker rooms are equipped with lockers for each major student, showers, make-up lights, hairdryers and rest rooms. The Maybee Music and Dance Library is also located conveniently in Dalton Center. Performances are presented in Dance Studio B, the Dalton Multi-Media Room, Chenery Auditorium, the Gilmore Multi-Form Theatre and Shaw Theatre to audiences ranging in size from 100 to 1800. These spaces provide a variety of traditional and non-traditional performance opportunities for two fully-produced and several less formal productions each year.
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