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    Alice Sheets Marriott Center for Dance - The University of Utah

    The 64,400 square-foot building, which houses the Departments of Modern Dance and Ballet, was designed exclusively for dance.

    The red brick and Utah sandstone structure is architecturally contemporary, yet blends with historic campus buildings. 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, 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. 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.

    The formal performance space in the Marriott Center for Dance was name in honor of Elizabeth R. Hayes and William 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 pane to warm dancers' legs and feet when off-stage during a performance.

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      Alice Sheets Marriott Center for Dance - The University of Utah

      330 South 1500 East
      Salt Lake City, UT 84112

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