Dallas Center for the Performing Arts
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The Dallas Center for the Performing Arts is a venture of the DCPA Foundation to provide a group of purpose-built venues for performances of opera, musical theater, classic and experimental theater, ballet and other forms of dance. It is being created with a $200 million construction campaign, with the project expected to cost at least $275 million and 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.
[edit] Theatres and other performance venues
The DCPA will consist of:
- Winspear Opera House, named for its benefactors, Margot and Bill Winspear who donated $42 million, will be a 2,200 seat opera house and the future home of the Dallas Opera.
- Dee and Charles Wyly Theatre, named for its benefactors who donated $20 million, will be located in a 74,915-square-foot 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 for several hundred. The final concept for the building is still underway based on an assessment of the needs of Dallas' arts organizations.
- Grand Plaza, to be designed by a major urban developer and landscape designer, will create a campus-like environment which provides for tranquil walks, meetings with friends and spaces for quiet reflection. It will tie together all the theatre buildings with tree-lined streets, fountains and public art to create an urban oasis in downtown Dallas.
- Annette Strauss Artist Square already exists as an outdoor venue for festivals, concerts and theatrical productions. However, it will be moved and renovated in time for the grand opening in 2009. Presently, the Square provides some of the most diverse selections of art, music and dance in Dallas.
