Impulse Dance Academy in Greenwood, United States, offers a diverse range of dance classes, including ballet, pointe, jazz and hip-hop - fostering a positive, growth-oriented environment. Over the recent holiday break, the academy unveiled an exciting studio upgrade: the installation of a new Rosco Duètte dance floor. Designed to support a variety of dance styles, this innovative flooring not only improved the functionality of the space but also transformed its overall look. Read the Dance Teacher article below to learn how Duètte revitalized the studio and enhanced the experience for students and instructors alike.
Students at Impulse Dance Academy in Greenwood, Indiana, discovered a major surprise when they returned from their holiday break: The studio’s 21-year-old flooring was gone, replaced with a new Duètte vinyl floor from Rosco.
They were ecstatic,” Kerri Sullivan, Impulse’s owner, says of the dancers. “It’s been a game changer.”
Impulse Dance Academy received the Rosco dance floor from the company through a giveaway exclusively offered to Dance Teacher readers. After years of putting off what can seem like a daunting upgrade, the company’s gift helped transform Sullivan’s studio for many years to come.
Sullivan inherited her studio’s old floor from the previous owner, and then reassembled it when she moved locations several years ago. “Its pieces didn’t even match up anymore,” Sullivan’s daughter and fellow teacher, Kaiti, says. “We were just making do because it was basically a patchwork of really wrinkled, mismatched flooring.”
In the end, Impulse Dance Academy received five rolls of flooring at 41-feet lengths to fill the studio space. “This was a godsend,” Sullivan says.
Duètte is a reversible dance floor that sandwiches a woven glass fiber interlayer between two outer layers of vinyl. This makes the product dimensionally stable, meaning when studio owners unroll the shipment, it lies flat instantly, avoiding the annoying rippling and wrinkling that may come with other dance floors.
“It didn’t have any curl at all,” Sullivan says. “We were able to unroll it and put it right down. You could easily put this down in a day or less,” she says of the studio’s self-installation.
The glass fiber also makes Duètte resistant to temperature shifts, which is helpful to studio owners like Sullivan, whose buildings withstand all four seasons, as well as to touring productions or competitions—even if the rolled-up flooring sits in a truck that is hot or cold, it will still lie flat every time it’s unrolled.
In fact, the floor was delivered during a snowstorm, but Sullivan had no issues.
“We’re a family-owned studio, everybody there was just a volunteer, so we weren’t sure what to expect. But I think it took less than 10 minutes for us to get it in the door,” Kaiti says. “It was way smoother than we thought it was going to be.”
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