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Article: THE BUILDING OF A BALLET HOW SAN FRANCISCO DOES THINGS RIGHT
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- The Boston Globe (Boston, MA)
- Article date:
- May 17, 1987
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CopyrightCopyright 1987 The Boston Globe. Provided by ProQuest LLC. (Hide copyright information)
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There is a logical explanation for the sink built into the
floor in the women's dressing room of the San Francisco Ballet
Association building. To break in stiff new toe shoes, dancers
subject them to many cruelties. Slamming them in a door is one
favorite. Wetting them is another: Wet shoes adhere to the feet
better than dry ones do. But dancers who hoist their feet up onto
the rim of a hip-level sink to wet their shoes have been known to
cause the sink to rip out of the wall and crash to the floor. The
architect of the San Francisco Ballet building, Beverly Willis, got
around the problem by putting the sink on the floor in the first
place.
The sink is a symbol of the ...