A
dance studio is a room or area used for
teaching or
practicing dance. Since
dance is typically performed to
music some means of music generation or
playback is typical, either a
piano, a
CD player or often a variable speed
CD player wired to a several hundred
Watt RMS sound system. In European settings the floor of a dance studio is typically varnished wood, preferably slightly sprung. Large mirrors are common, especially in
ballet and
ballroom dance
studios, as these allow the dancers to see how they look and compare themselves to known-good reference models. In more socially oriented dance forms, such as
Ceroc or
street latin mirrors are rare.
Often a dance studio is multi-purpose, for example the dance studio where I dance ceroc was built as a rugby clubrooms and still functions as a rugby clubrooms two nights a week. We also regularly use a bar as a dance studio which gets old rapidly when drunks join as an excuse to grope the women.