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marriott
center
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dance
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The Alice Sheets Marriott
Center for Dance opened its doors to students September 25, 1989.
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The 64,400 square-foot building, which houses
the Departments of Modern Dance and Ballet,
was designed exclusively
for dance by
FFKR Architects/Planners and Interior Design.
Principal architects were Kip K. Harris
and M. Ray Kingston
with interior furnishings by Magda Jakovcev.
The red brick and Utah sandstone structure
is architecturally contemporary,
yet blends with historic campus buildings.
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The building features six large studios, one
small studio for faculty use, three classrooms, student lounge,
dressing rooms with stage access, audiovisual lab with computer
stations for student use and video and sound production, quick-change
and physical therapy rooms with 3 Pilates Reformers, administrative
and faculty offices, costume and scenery shops and a sky deck
with views of the valley that can be used for performances and
receptions.
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One of the studios can be transformed
into an informal performance space with the addition of lighting,
curtains, and risers for audience seating. |
| The studio floors are resilient,
with a five-layer, basket-weave system that helps prevent injuries.
European-imported, battleship linoleum in the ballet studios has
natural resin and cork that reduces the need for coating slippers
with resin. Modern dance studio floors have been finished with the
finest maple. |
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The formal performance
space in the Marriott Center for Dance was named in honor of Elizabeth
R. Hayes and Willam Christensen, in recognition of their outstanding
contributions to dance and the University of Utah. The 333-seat
professional theatre, shared by the Departments of Modern Dance
and Ballet, has 14 rows of seating steeply raked to permit all audience
members an excellent view. The bottom row of seats can be removed
to create an orchestra pit for performances with live musicians.
The proscenium stage is 40 feet wide by 35 feet deep with a curved
apron of up to 8 feet in front of the curtain. On stage left is
a ballet barre with an electric-radiant panel to warm dancers' legs
and feet when off-stage during a performance. |
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