The Marley Dance Floor And Your Performance Space
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A Marley dance floor is a type of performance flooring that is useful for creating a floor surface suitable for dance, theatre, certain sports and other types of exercise classes. A Marley dance floor is made out of vinyl, and can be placed on top of a wood dance floor, or other types of wood flooring. You can protect your wooden dance floor and extend its life by using a Marley dance floor on top when it suits the type of performance and activities that will take place upon the flooring.
For dance and theatre, the best performance flooring is a wood dance floor. For a gym floor, you would also have a preference for wooden flooring. On top of the wood dance floor is placed the Marley dance floor. The vinyl performance flooring can be rolled up and stored when you want the wood dance floor to be used, and then the vinyl can be rolled out on top of the floor as needed. This makes the performance space much more versatile and allows for flexibility in the floors use, which also helps a room increase rental capabilities to a wide variety of clients.
The vinyl flooring is created in layers, with a soft under layer topped by a woven layer, the vinyl layer and a thinner top layer. The top layer offers protection from harmful ultraviolet light rays, which can degrade vinyl over time. The vinyl layer gives the performance flooring its color, which is important when it is used in a theatre or dance setting and certain floor colors are required to work with designed lighting effects. The woven layer provides strength and durability to the flooring and the bottom layer adds cushion.
Flooring enhances dance performance in a number of different ways. It is crucial that an appropriate amount of traction is in place in order to facilitate the performance of specific types of dancing. The softness of the floor is also an aspect that plays into good dance flooring, as well as the sound a floor makes and how durable it is. A wooden dance floor is best for percussive dancing styles, such as tap dance. However, ballet, where work is done on pointe and a great deal of jumping occurs should be done on a softer-surface dance floor. The slickness of the floor is also a consideration. Ballroom dancing requires a degree of slipperiness to the floor in order to perform the dance moves, but if the floor is used for sports where tennis shoes are worn, then less slipperiness is needed.
You can learn more about a wooden dance floor, marley flooring and other types of performance floors by visiting a sprung flooring dealer online.
