Just before Christmas the Peter Jones store in Chelsea staged a Strictly Dance evening which featured Tom Chambers and Camilla Dallerup just a few days before winning the highly popular Strictly Come Dancing prize on BBC Television. An estimated two thousand evening shoppers thronged the galleries to watch, but few probably gave any thought as to how the hard terrazzo surface of the ground floor had been transformed into a ballroom. That in fact was the challenge for Rain Communications UK who put on the event for Peter Jones. Spokesman Neil Cassley of Rain Communications said, "Harlequin added the perfect sheen to our event delivering a bespoke ballroom dance floor in remarkable time." For the 'one night only' event Harlequin had brought in portable Liberty Sprung Panels that link together to create a professional quality sprung floor. The Harlequin Fiesta dance surface has an oak stripped pattern and is proving popular for social dancing but also stands up to the rigours of percussive dance such as tap and Irish. Later in the evening the general public were able to take to the floor themselves. For Harlequin creating professional quality dance floors for special events is all in a days work.
Photo credit: Jonathan Hordle/Rex Feature.
No comments:
Post a Comment