Graduate Dance Center
The Graduate Dance Center is a sustainable work/play space dedicated to graduate student choreographic research and development. By Fall 2010, this uniquely designed space will include two studio dedicated to graduate studies, graduate office and lounges, and a creative construction space. The Graduate Dance Center represents an exciting collaboration between Dance at Illinois and the School of Architecture and occupies the second floor of the East Art Annex 2, a beautiful old, brick building a short walk from the Nevada Studios and the Dance Administration Building.
The first 2,000 square foot studio, designed by faculty and student architects and dancers from the Univeristy of Illinois during a joing graduate seminar, opend in the Fall of 2009. This space has a sprung wood floor and floating wood curtains made entirely from recycled wood reclaimed from an old basketball court. In 2009, the Department of Dance received a Student Sustainability Grant to fund the renovation of the second studio and office spaces. A team of faculty and student architects are building these spaces out of reclaimed wood from two barns that have been donated to the University of Illinois. These light filled spaces are equipped with lighting, sound and media equipment.
