Taniith
Active Member
(I couldn't decide if this should go here or in the Safety forum. Mods, please move if I chose wrong)
I looked around a bit and found notes on general safety for skates on stage, but nothing about the best flooring choice.
We're producing Xanadu next spring, and we have some concerns about actors skating on our stage floor. Our stage surface is 100+ year old hardwood flooring, and it's not particularly level. It's not heavily slanted or wavy or anything like that, but we do have to heavily shim platform legs to get sets level. Some day we'll tackle the project of re-doing the stage floor, but that's years away for the moment.
So, question 1 is: what is the most cost effective way to get a level (enough) surface for skates?
Question 2 is: What's the best surface to put down on the floor for smooth skating? We've been looking into marley flooring, but none of us has any experience with it to know what kind to get (and it'll be an expensive proposition). If we went that route, we'd probably want to invest in something we could use for this *and* for future dance shows, etc. We also have a source for free masonite sheets, and I was thinking that could be a nice surface if we paint them to remove the slipperiness.
Anyone have thoughts?
I looked around a bit and found notes on general safety for skates on stage, but nothing about the best flooring choice.
We're producing Xanadu next spring, and we have some concerns about actors skating on our stage floor. Our stage surface is 100+ year old hardwood flooring, and it's not particularly level. It's not heavily slanted or wavy or anything like that, but we do have to heavily shim platform legs to get sets level. Some day we'll tackle the project of re-doing the stage floor, but that's years away for the moment.
So, question 1 is: what is the most cost effective way to get a level (enough) surface for skates?
Question 2 is: What's the best surface to put down on the floor for smooth skating? We've been looking into marley flooring, but none of us has any experience with it to know what kind to get (and it'll be an expensive proposition). If we went that route, we'd probably want to invest in something we could use for this *and* for future dance shows, etc. We also have a source for free masonite sheets, and I was thinking that could be a nice surface if we paint them to remove the slipperiness.
Anyone have thoughts?