To encourage a closeness between the audience and the work, performances take place notinthe building's main stage, the 900-seat Kaufman Hall (which could easily overwhelm dance of this nature), but inthe roughly 100-seat Buttenwieser Hall, which has a firm connection to dance history.
In addition, thebuilding was not fitted with a fire main to which fire hoses could be connected and fire engines could not get within 45m of all parts of thebuilding, as required by law.