Ballet

An overview of projects, products and exclusive articles about ballet

Project • By Takero Shimazaki Architects • Theaters

Royal Academy of Dance

In Summer 2018, t-sa began working with the Royal Academy of Dance (RAD), as they prepared to relocate from existing premises on Battersea Square to a new purpose-built global headquarters located only a short distance away. The new HQ  was to inhabit the ground and first floors of a high-rise residential development designed by another architect. Anton Gorlenko Anton Gorlenko Anton Gorlenko Anton Gorlenko Felix Koch Felix Koch When working within the context of an existing building it is t-sa’s ongoing approach to work with the ‘as found’, undertaking a careful review of the existing building fabric and allowing it to influence the proposed. Here, the existing physical context... More

Project • By MICA Architects • Secondary Schools

Rambert School of Music and Contemporary Dance

MICA has completed a small but carefully designed extension to the Weston Studio for the Rambert School of Ballet and Contemporary Dance on the School’s Violet Needham Chapel site in Twickenham. Sited in the St Margaret’s Estate conservation area and within the flood zone of the adjacent River Thames, the project provides additional dance studio space for teaching and practice to accommodate increased student numbers. Andy Stagg The project makes the most of the landscape setting, providing a room in the garden, improving the relationship between the existing studio and the garden, providing access deeper into the landscape with improved accessibility for all. The architecture interprets the varied architectural language o... More
Super Ligera
José Urbano

Product • By Minimal Studio • Super Ligera, "Ode to slenderness"

Super Ligera

In classical ballet, a ballerina uses half-pointed shoes until her bones are prepared and hardened to support pointed shoes, adapting her bone structure to the physical and aesthetic demands of this art, cataloged as a discipline.Super Light has been inspired by this bone transformation process due to its extreme lightness, uniform throughout its perimeter, composed of numerous elements that make up and reinforce its central column. Her cherry seat is adapted from where the the passage of time can be reflected and appreciated, reinforcing its natural imperfection.The result? A delicate piece for its slender figure, wrapped with the brutality and roughness of its seat. More