On Tuesdays, she walks to the Hagan Dance Studio at 185 Nassau Street. On Wednesdays, the class meets in the first-floor studio of New South Building. On Fridays, it’s back to 185 Nassau Street, but this time in the third-floor studio.
The studio in New South, completed just before the start of classes, is part of a larger renovation project for the Lewis Center for the Arts that began last year. Since then, the first and sixth floors have been renovated to accommodate the dance, theater and creative writing programs.
“The Lewis Center needed to expand its facilities,” said Marguerite d’Aprile-Smith, the center’s spokeswoman. “We’re thrilled to see the growing interest in the arts — especially in dance — at the University, which is why we needed additional space.”
The latest New South renovations include the new dance studio and theater space on its first floor and the relocation of the entire Program in Creative Writing from 185 Nassau Street to its sixth floor. The program and faculty offices for the Program in Theater and the program offices for the Program in Dance are still at 185 Nassau Street.
Professor Susan Marshall, director of the Program in Dance, said the new dance studio has helped faculty coordinate the growing interest in dance at the University.
“Our new studio at New South arrives just in time to help us manage our swelling numbers of students participating in the program’s courses, co-curricular classes, guest artist rehearsals and student thesis projects,” she said in an e-mail. “I look forward to the opportunities that the studios offer the program in terms of expanding our course offerings.”
The department has already taken advantage of the space, freeing up the Hagan Dance Studio for an additional modern dance class. Students can take classes in the department for credit or take co-curricular courses that do not offer credit, such as Todt’s ballet class.
Todt is also a staff writer for The Daily Princetonian.
“I think the dance department and dance groups were in need of more space, so it’s great that there are both options,” Elizabeth Cooper ’12 said. “For me, it’s incredibly convenient.”
Five floors above the new studio, the Program in Creative Writing started settling into its New South home in August. Professor Paul Muldoon, acting director of the creative writing program and chair of the Lewis Center for the Arts, said the move is just what the program needed.
“We love our new space,” Muldoon said in an e-mail. “The members of the creative writing program will benefit, I’m certain, from an even deeper sense of propinquity and purpose. The teaching spaces are light and airy and, on a good day, maybe even inspirational.”
Still, Muldoon had some initial reservations about the move.
“My big concern about the expansion of the programs in the Lewis Center has been that we risk losing the sense of excitement associated with 185 Nassau Street,” he said. “I’m now convinced that New South can have just such a vibrancy. In fact, I’d like to see more of our people moving there.”
While the renovations for the Lewis Center for the Arts are complete, New South has yet to finish its transformation. Jean Crider, assistant project manager for design and construction, said in an e-mail that work on the fifth and seventh floors of the building should be finished by the end of December. The building’s exterior is also getting a facelift.
“The work on the exterior for this project has been to open up the first-floor center entrance bay to reflect the openness of the original design, giving the New South first-floor entrance a more elegant and welcoming facade,” Crider said. The exterior remodeling will be finished by October.
“New South itself is a building that’s had a very bad press on campus,” Muldoon said. “We’ve loved to hate it for years, largely because its functional beauty has been obscured. Now we’re seeing what a great space it is at its core.”
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