New York design studio Office of Tangible Space has completed a pole dance studio in New York City with burgundy velvet curtains, a shoe rack for heels and lighting that's optimised for self-recording. More about Office of Tangible Space completes dance studio with "highest poles in New York City"
Following a fire at dance centre Jacob's Pillow in 2020, Dutch architecture studio Mecanoo has completed the Doris Duke Theatre on the Massachusetts, USA campus, with a design guided by Indigenous principles. More about Mecanoo completes "magic wooden box" theatre at Jacob's Pillow in Massachusetts
Danish studio BIG has designed a curving folded roof informed by traditional Kosovan skirts for the Opera and Ballet Theatre of Kosovo in Pristina. More about BIG to wrap Kosovo opera and ballet theatre in sculptural photovoltaic roof
Irish studio O'Donnell + Tuomey has completed a brick-clad dance theatre in London that houses a 550-seat auditorium and six studios. More about O'Donnell + Tuomey draws on Stratford's industrial past for London dance theatre
Dutch architecture firm Mecanoo has designed the Doris Duke Theater at Massachusetts dance venue Jacob's Pillow to replace the previous theatre lost to a fire in 2020. More about Mecanoo to create "world's most technologically advanced dance venue" in the Berkshires
Design collective Numen/For Use has created a netted installation for automobile brand Porsche's The Art of Dreams exhibition at Milan design week, which also features a Vitra furniture collection. More about Porsche's signature 1960s houndstooth pattern informs "inhabitable" net installation
Architectural studio LOHA has transformed an agricultural building in California into the light-filled Sandi Simon Center for Dance with polycarbonate walls that evoke the "ephemeral nature of performance". More about LOHA creates dance school within historic orange-packing building in southern California
Chinese studio MAD has revealed visuals of its design for the Rotterdam Center for Dance in the Netherlands, as well as photos of the spiral staircase being constructed for its museum next door. More about MAD unveils design for Danshuis and images of gigantic spiral staircase in Rotterdam
A large steel-clad cube encloses the Dance House in Helsinki, which local architecture studios JKMM and ILO architects have created by converting and extending part of a former cable factory. More about JKMM and ILO architects extend Helsinki's Cable Factory with metal-clad dance centre
This video tour published in collaboration with Open House London offers a look inside the dynamic and tactile Siobhan Davies Dance Studio, designed by Sarah Wigglesworth Architects. More about Undulating roof of Siobhan Davies Dance Studio echoes movements of its users
Today VDF teams up with musician Rosey Chan, starting with this exclusive premiere of her collaboration with artist Eyal Gever and dancer and choreographer Sharon Eyal. Plus Chan launches a playlist of compositions intended to help listeners to cope with coronavirus lockdown. More about Water Dancer "explores the dynamic, complex and ever-changing relationships between man, nature and technology"
Glenn Howells Architects has built a dance school for the English National Ballet, with windows in its translucent white cladding that give glimpses of rehearsals. More about Glenn Howells Architects creates lantern-like school for English National Ballet
Barozzi Veiga has completed the Tanzhaus dance centre in Zürich, which opens onto a promenade along the river Limmat with a concrete arcade of trapezoid openings. More about Barozzi Veiga creates trapezoidal riverside arcade for Zürich dance centre
Tchaikovsky Academic Opera and Ballet Theatre by wHY Architecture will be built on the bank of the Kama River in Perm, Russia, near the Ural mountains. More about wHY Architecture reveals design for opera house in Russia
Dancers at the Origen Festival in the Swiss Alps will perform around nine unique columns 3D-printed in concrete by students from ETH Zurich. More about Students' 3D-printed Concrete Choreography pillars provide a stage for dancers
Pratt Institute graduate Jae-Hyun An has created a prosthetic leg that allows amputees to perform ballet like never before. More about Prosthetic leg for amputees designed by Jae-Hyun An to encourage new genre of ballet
Bezalel Academy of Art and Design graduate Hadar Neeman has created personalised ballet shoes using 3D-printing technology to reduce dancer's pain. More about P-rouette is a 3D-printed ballet shoe designed to reduce pain felt by the dancer
Central Saint Martins graduate Ching-Hui Yang has created a series of brass tools that aim to encourage muscle memory to help train dancers. More about Ching-Hui Yang creates dance training device that imitates muscle memory
A metal brise-soleil and a sculptural rooftop block allow a new performing arts centre by Tennessee studio Archimania to stand out in a revitalised district in Midtown Memphis. More about Copper screen stretches across front of Memphis ballet school by Archimania
The opening week of this year's Chicago Architecture Biennial featured three architecture-related performances, which artistic directors Johnston Marklee included in the programme to highlight a trend for this mode of expression. More about Chicago Biennial promotes performance art as "a medium of growing importance" for architects