I, particularly, get stressed out about that, and I always joke and pick up people's stuff and hand it back to them," company dancer Emily Dyson said, laughing. "I'm so excited that we have men and women's locker rooms." "Dancing every day (in the Jordan studio), there's just clutter everywhere. "We're here by ourselves, and so we can create our art with our artists," company dancer Jillian Godwin said.Ī dedicated break room and locker rooms mean that the dancers can take a lunch break outside the studio and that their clothes won't pile up in community spaces. five days a week, with breaks, before teaching their own classes at night. Company dancers generally rehearse from 10 a.m. The latter is a dedicated place to take care of sore muscles and injuries.īoth rooms are essential to recovery. The former comes with a refrigerator that makes ice - a marked difference from the small ice packs that lined a dorm refrigerator in their previous rehearsal space. While the 14 company dancers are thrilled with the studios, they're especially excited about the kitchen and physical therapy room. The entire footprint, which is about 12,000 square feet, was designed by Greg McMullen, who's now with Synthesis Incorporated. Storage, along with space to do laundry and dye costumes, is behind the studios. The new home includes a front desk made of reclaimed barn wood, locker rooms, offices and a multipurpose room that will hold exercise equipment, yoga classes and community events. "We dance barefoot, so the better the floor, the easier it is to move across the floor without getting too many burns, too many scrapes," company dancer Manuel Valdes said. Pine boards in a lattice-like configuration are underneath maple plywood, masonite material and marley floor, lighting designer Laura Glover said. On the ground, an intricately layered floor provides springiness that saves dancers' joints. Near the ceiling, natural light flows in through a row of windows. It's roughly the same size as the stage at Indiana Repertory Theatre. Drape a covering over the wall of mirrors, and the studio becomes an intimate performance space itself. The large pillar-free studio is the heartbeat of the company's new home. "If we didn't jump on this space, somebody else would have snapped it up," Hochoy said. It is still looking for donations to meet its goal. Dance Kaleidoscope had invested enough in its new home before the pandemic that the company found it best to move forward. Hochoy said the cost for the project is about $2 million, and the company has raised about $700,000 so far. The Circle City Industrial Complex met Dance Kaleidoscope's requirements: no pillars for dancers to dodge in the studios, high ceilings and accessibility for parents to drop off their children for classes. The company toured more buildings than he could count before it landed on the winner about five years ago. Plus, Butler had its own plans for its annex, Hochoy said. View Gallery: Dance Kaleidoscope finds a home in Circle City Industrial ComplexĪ 1995 performance of "Carmina Burana" "made a huge splash with the Indianapolis community, that a small company like ours could put on such a huge production," Hochoy said.Īfter almost 30 years at the Jordan annex, Dance Kaleidoscope needed its own space to hold intimate performances, allow its dancers more room to spread out during rehearsals and accommodate more classes. I'll affect everything we do," artistic director David Hochoy said. We're part of this community.' It's very, very important. "Having this place and saying, 'This doesn't belong to anyone else, this is ours. But the company's new home will allow it to host intimate concerts and expand its educational outreach. It will continue to perform at Indiana Repertory Theatre, where it is the dance company in residence. But never in that time has it had a permanent home.Īfter more than a decade of searching for its own space, the company will take up residence inside the Circle City Industrial Complex - a location that already houses multiple art studios, businesses and galleries - near Massachusetts Avenue and 10th Street on the east side. Watch Video: Take a look inside Dance Kaleidoscope's new studioĭance Kaleidoscope has earned the title of Indianapolis' longest-running modern dance company by performing masterworks and inventive choreography for almost half a century.
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