Dallas Center for the Performing Arts
- Dallas Center for the Performing Arts
The Dallas Center for the Performing Arts is a new multi-venue center for performances of opera, musical theater, classic and experimental theater, ballet and other forms of dance. The campaign to build the Center has a goal $275 million, with more than 93% of its funding coming from private sources, and is scheduled to open in 2009.
Two major architectural firms Foster and Partners (based in London) and Office for Metropolitan Architecture (based in Rotterdam and New York are joining forces in the planning of different parts of the Center.
The Center is currently under construction in the Arts District of downtown Dallas, Texas and is located adjacent to the existing Morton H. Meyerson Symphony Center, the home of the Dallas Symphony Orchestra.
Theatres and other performance venues
The Dallas Center for the Performing Arts includes four venues and an urban park:
* Winspear Opera House, named for Margot and Bill Winspear, who donated $42 million to the Center, will be a 2,300 seat opera house and the future home of the Dallas Opera.
* Dee and Charles Wyly Theatre, named Dee and Charles Wyly, who donated $20 million to the Center, will be located in a convert|74915|sqft|m2|sing=on building of eleven stories. The theatre will hold about 600 people, depending upon the stage configuration.
* City Performance Hall will provide performance spaces for many smaller performing arts organizations, and it will include a "black box" theater and a chamber music hall designed with flexible seating of about 750, plus another two, 200 seat theatres. The final concept for the building is still underway based on an assessment of the needs of Dallas' arts organizations.
* The completely redesigned Annette Strauss Artist Square will be an outdoor performance space with lawn seating for 5,000.
* The 10 acre Performance Park, designed by Michel Desvign of Paris with JJR, will weave together the venues of the Center.
External links
* [http://www.dallasperformingarts.org Dallas Center for the Performing Arts website]
* [http://www.artsdistrict.org/ Dallas Arts District website]
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