The Palais de Danse is a former cinema, dance hall, ballet school and auction house in St Ives, Cornwall which was a studio for sculptor and artist Barbara Hepworth from 1961 until her death in 1975.

[2][4]: 17 It was converted into a dance hall in 1925 (when it first became known as the Palais de Danse) and from 1939 was also used for auctions, concerts and, during the Second World War, a ballet school taught by Phyllis Bedells.

[6]: 50  At 80 feet (24 m) long,[4]: 63  the Palais was much larger than her studio at Trewyn; she bought the building on 25 February 1961 for £10,000,[2] almost immediately beginning work on Winged Figure, a May 1961 commission for John Lewis' Oxford Street store.

[4]: 62 After Winged Figure, Hepworth started work on Single Form, a commission for a memorial to Dag Hammarskjöld outside the United Nations headquarters in New York.

[4]: 62  To help with scaling up from the maquette (called Single Form (Memorial)),[9] Hepworth enlisted the help of her son Simon Nicholson and used a chequered grid of 1 foot (0.30 m) squares.

[4]: 63–64 Hepworth kept several parts of the dance hall, including the stage, but installed a sliding door inlaid with fibreglass and resin which allowed diffused light in from the next room which overlooked the sea.

[13] The building along with a southern boundary wall was designated Grade II listed by Historic England and the Department for Digital, Culture, Media and Sport on 29 April 2020.