Dance centre — Toulouse
Six dance studios, two of them performance halls with retractable seating.
Set in the Reynerie district, Toulouse's future Cité de la Danse (lead architect: Bernard Desmoulin) is devoted entirely to dance — practice, performance and outreach — and will notably house the Place de la Danse, the national choreographic development centre for Toulouse Occitanie. Across some 3,390 m², the building brings together dance and creation studios, two performance halls, training spaces and an accessible planted terrace.
Scenarchie is designing the six dance studios — in particular the two that receive an audience — and is responsible for the metalwork and stage machinery, stage and audiovisual networks, dance floors and retractable seating packages.
The "Studio scène", the largest of the public studios, is a 21 × 21 m modular hall that shifts from a 225-seat end-stage layout to a two- or three-sided configuration, or to a bare stage, thanks to three retractable seating units, two of them mobile. It is overhung by a walk-on grid carrying 10 traversable motorized batten sets and a false grid of 15 rolling beams. The second public studio, 15 × 15 m, has a 65-seat retractable stand and a false grid carrying 3 motorized trusses.
