Specifying Dance Floors - White Paper Summary

Professional dancers can spend 6 to 8 hours a day working in a dance studio and as their place of work it should offer a safe environment fit for the purpose. The dance floor makes an important contribution to safe performance without risk of slips and falls or longer-term stress injuries. A good dance floor instils confidence in dancers to give full expression to their creativity, safe in the knowledge the dance floor will offer a consistent response. This publication reviews the issues relevant to specifying floors suitable for dance, progress on defining standards and new research.