For smaller companies, the Stage Management is the team responsible for care and maintenance of dance floors. I have to maintain 5 studios in my company's building, but at the theater we have IATSE crews, so I don't have to maintain the performance floor.
Over my years working for the ballet, one of my previous PSM's used lemon-scented ammonia directly on the dance floor. He poked a few holes in the plastic film and I would drip it on the floor as he used a push broom covered with a towel behind me. This seemed to do well on the floors. After he left, we got an ATD and he took over the mopping/scrubbing of the dance floor. However, once he scrubbed certain studios, areas became so slick, we couldn't use them. (We now have an entire studio set up theater-style [with wings and a crossover] that is no longer used due to the slick spots.)
I was then told that the ammonia was bad for the floors as it dries them out, and that we should only use a warm water wash. The ATD still takes care of the mopping and scrubbing, while I maintain the tape between the seams and the dotting.
What do you do with your floors? How do you clean them, yet keep them from getting slick? If you have panels of dance floor, what kind of tape do you use for the seams, and how do you keep it lasting through weeks of rehearsals?
