Overview and selection guide
Harlequin develops, manufactures and supplies a wide range of performance flooring surfaces, systems and accessories. Use this overview to select the Harlequin flooring best suited to your application, and then use the link to find a full description, specification and PDF download of the appropriate brochure.
Portable & permanent vinyl floors
Our range of vinyl floors provides portable and permanent dance floor solutions and those indicated are also suitable as a dance surface when used in conjunction with Harlequin’s sprung floors. |
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Allegro - was developed as a loose-lay dance and aerobics floor to protect against hard subfloors. Harlequin Allegro is the thickest roll-out dance floor available in the world. In beautiful plain colours, it is made by reinforcing a vinyl dance floor with a tough fibre interply, then backing this with a firm foam cushioning for resilience. The result is a "point-elastic" floor almost 9mm thick!
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Cascade - is a reinforced sheet vinyl, painstakingly manufactured to high standards and is specified worldwide for loose-lay and permanent installation in dance studios. For modest minimum quantities we can produce colours of your choice.
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Fiesta - was developed because we saw a clear need for a floor for dance and drama studios which looked exactly like wood, but without all the associated problems of cleaning and maintenance.
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Reversible - securely established itself years back as the classic double-sided stage floor. It is a calendered vinyl consisting of a complex "sandwich", providing a slip resistant surface on both sides. These special wear-coats are easy to maintain and they are approved by dancers as a loose-lay floor on stage and in the studio.
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Showfloor - a multi-layer, plain coloured vinyl floor covering with a choice of colours. Showfloor is a decorative portable floor that can be laid on any hard smooth surface and is suitable for light to medium 'traffic'.
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Studio - is one of our special hardwearing floor coverings designed for dance, studio and stage use. It is a complex vinyl construction incorporating a strong mineral fibre interply and a firm foam backing. The surface is produced from a hard-wearing vinyl and its formulation focuses on the demands of dancers. The result is a slip-resistant floor to reassure performers and a predicable surface to give confidence to dancers for demanding choreography and movement. The firm but lightweight foam backing helps to protect against hard subfloors.
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Tempo - is a floor particularly suited to the requirements of contemporary or barefoot dance, but also works as a multi-purpose performance surface. Thicker than Harlequin Studio, Tempo provides added protection against hard sub-floors.
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Rolls out instantly to a breathtaking wet-look finish!
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Harlequin Standfast is an extremely hardwearing and contract-quality flooring. It is intended for permanent installation into adhesive, when the joins are heat welded to form a continuous performance surface.
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Sprung floors
Harlequin offer a range of sprung floors that can be used in conjunction with a vinyl dance surface.
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Activity - a permanently installed sprung floor system based on a revolutionary triple 'sandwich' composite construction. Activity completely eliminates the need for metal springs and rubber pads and because it is a fully floating system with no fixings to the floor it can be laid on almost any surface without preparation. Shock-damped to avoid a 'trampoline' effect and combining area and point elasticity to offer identical characteristics across the whole floor, Activity is ideal for ballet, reducing injury risk and enhancing dancers' performances.
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Liberty - a floating floor system composed of sprung floor panels and available for either permanent dance studio installation or as stage panels for touring. Designed for safety and suitable for a range of dance disciplines, when combined with a Harlequin dance surface Liberty provides the ultimate floor, allowing performers to concentrate on their art without fear of falling or injury.
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The construction of this is known familiarly as “basketweave”. In reality, it is a counterbatten configuration comprising at least three layers of highly flexible southern US softwood battens, placed on top of each other at right angles. The intermediate layer acts as a spring to the top layer which is laid at the centre of the span formed by the intermediate layer over the bottom layer. Theoretically the more intermediate layers incorporated in a basketweave floor the more flexible it becomes, but the principle of diminishing returns applies and in reality the extra expense and thickness outweigh the practicality. In the Harlequin WoodSpring system shock absorption and energy return are enhanced by elastomer pads attached to the underside of the bottom layer.
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Accessories
Harlequin also provide a range of accessory products. To discover more please click on the link.
