A New Dance Building That Dances

Three years ago, a man looking for a dance school for his daughter, offered the University of Arizona in Tucson funds to build a new home for its dance program. “This story sounds like something out of an old Fred Astaire movie, and why not? Just looking at the Eller Theatre, designed by Gould Evans Associates in Phoenix, makes you want to tap your feet. The finely proportioned rectangular glass volume that hosts the dance studios seems to pirouette above a lush green lawn.”