Then & Now

Stanford Arts: Dance

Stanford University Archives
A modern dance class in Roble Gym ca. 1940s-1950s.
Ian Terpin
Ballet class, Roble Gym, 2013

Stanford’s dance studio has been located at Roble Gym since the building’s completion in 1931. Left: Dancers in the studio in the 1940s or 1950s. Right: Muriel Maffre, former principal dancer of the San Francisco Ballet, teaches a ballet class. Roble Gym is currently being renovated to reopen in fall 2016 as a multi-use “arts gym.”