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Rentals
Some of our facilities are available for rental. For rental information, contact scheduling@mgsa.rutgers.edu.
Kirkpatrick Chapel
81 Somerset Street
New Brunswick, NJ 08901
Old Queens
The Sophia Astley Kirkpatrick Memorial Chapel is a High Victorian Gothic chapel built in 1873 and features a trio of Louis Comfort Tiffany windows. It is among Rutgers University’s oldest extant buildings and one of six buildings located on a historic section of the College Avenue campus known as Old Queens.
For rental information, contact scheduling@mgsa.rutgers.edu.
Nicholas Music Center
85 George Street
New Brunswick, NJ 08901
Douglass campus
This 704-seat music hall serves as the largest performance space on campus. Designed by the distinguished architect Pietro Belluschi—whose roster of other projects includes Alice Tully Hall in New York City, the Davies Symphony Hall in San Francisco, and the Meyerhoff Symphony Hall in Baltimore—the center was built in 1981 and underwent extensive renovations in 2018.
For rental information, contact scheduling@mgsa.rutgers.edu.
Nicholas Dance Studios
As the main hub for the Dance Department, this facility features three large, airy studios fully equipped with sprung wooden floors and Marley floor covers for ballet work, with live and electronic sound equipment and digital projection.
Soma Center
The mission of the Soma Center at Mason Gross is to provide quality, motion-specific training to dance majors so that they can crosstrain, learn how to ward off common dance injuries, maintain their conditioning while recovering from injuries, and heal at a faster rate when injured. The Soma Center offers members of the Mason Gross dance community opportunities to augment and enhance their technical and artistic growth through progressive attention to principles of movement integration, body-mind awareness, and neuromuscular education in a variety of movement contexts.
Students are able to access customized athletic and wellness training with the Dance Department’s certified athletic trainer; crosstrain on cardio, balance, and free-weight equipment to improve performance; and
train in Pilates under the supervision of certified instructors—with private, duet, and quartet Pilates apparatus sessions available. They may also draw upon the Soma Center as a resource while studying kinesiology, anatomy, Laban Movement Analysis, Bartenieff Fundamentals, and yoga.
The Soma Center is also the home of the Polestar Pilates Teacher Training Program, the first evidence-based comprehensive Pilates teacher training program to be offered in higher education that meets the standards of the Pilates Method Alliance.