Why are dance floors so different?
In the real world there is no such thing as a standard dance floor. In the real world there are few dedicated dance floors. Dance Venues and Dance Schools are mostly in clubs, pubs, school halls, town halls, restaurants or even shopping arcades and outside tourist areas like Darling Harbour in Sydney. Dance floor surfaces can be very fast and slippery or slow and even highly abrasive. Most would be rarely cleaned. Dedicated unwaxed wooden floors tend to be fast and less harmful for suede soles. Everything else – use your imagination. Waxed and polished dance floors will differ in speed and the type of gunk that attaches to the suede soles, depending on what has been used as a finish for the floor. Floors in clubs, pubs and restaurants may be tacky with dropped food and spilt drinks. Outside dance areas are the arch enemies of all dance shoes. Pavers, concrete and asphalt are all highly abrasive and will destroy all dance shoes, sometimes just within a few short hours of twisting, turni
