I am a dance teacher at an acrobatic rock and roll club and am looking for a space for rehearsals (long-term regular block booking). Ideally, this should be a 2-hour evening session: an hour of dancing followed by an hour of acrobatics training.
Please, could you send me some information about the availability of your space (sports hall/dance studio)?
Which days and times are available?
Dimensions of the space – ideally in metres, area and ceiling hight?
Details of any available equipment (e.g. mats, mirrors, a sound system, air-conditioning)?
Location (address, any tube station nearby)?
Hire rate, your terms and conditions, etc.?
More details for an explanation:
Previously, we’ve been hiring either a dance studio that had already high ceiling and gym mats or a sports hall with mirrors and sound system – basically all in one. We are now looking for a similar solution as above (high dance studio, smaller gym, part of a bigger sports hall, 1-2 badminton courts or even a squash court or a community hall).
Ideally, we need a sound system and possibly mirrors for the first hour (dancing) and a high ceiling (3.5+ metres, imagine 2 people standing on each other), gymnastic mats (or also a thick crash mat, maybe a harness and other gymnastic equipment too as a bonus) for the second hour (acrobatics).
So if it cannot be done in one place (e.g. your dance studio has a low ceiling for acrobatics or we cannot play music in the sports hall during the dancing class), we might do dancing in a dance studio with low ceiling, followed by the acrobatic hour in a sports hall/gym = split session between 2 spaces, which is not ideal though, as at some point we need to practise acro and dance together in one routine.
Preferable days and times: Tuesdays and Thursdays on a weekly basis, 8-10PM. If Tuesdays are not available, Mondays could be considered too. If you have available just some other days, please let me know too, but that might be less likely for us to use.
Regarding the location, I would prefer something closer to the Liverpool Street or King’s Cross station, as I will commute there from Cambridge, or not more than half an hour from them, so it should be zone 1-2, if possible.