12-600: The Marie P. DeBartolo Performing Arts Center (DPAC) is a performing arts venue located on the south end of the University of Notre Dame campus and open to the South Bend, Indiana , and wider community. The 150,000 square foot facility, which opened in September 2004, was financed in large part by a gift from Edward J. DeBartolo Sr. , and the building was named in honor of his wife. The current executive director of
24-474: A means of generating new investment and increased economic activity and thus, a means for revitalizing neighborhoods as patrons are drawn to local restaurants and other businesses. PACs became a draw for touring shows and eventually included visual art in their facilities. Today, these centers are valuable civic resources that provide education, access, exchange of creative discourse, opportunities for cultural expression and awareness. A multi-use performance space
36-523: A plaque dedicating the popcorn popper within the building's concession stand to Pawnee Indiana 's famous miniature horse Li'l Sebastian , who earned an honorary degree from Notre Dame. The plaque features a photo of Li'l Sebastian and the University of Notre Dame seal, and it reads: "The DeBartolo Performing Arts Center hereby declares this The Li'l Sebastian Memorial Popcorn Popper. A life and legacy of delighting crowds from Pawnee to Buckingham Palace to Kuwait will be honored forever by delighting crowds at
48-595: A single multi-use space, or alternatively, to a performing arts college. The origin of the world's oldest performing art, Noh , dates back to the 6th and 7th centuries when performing arts came to Japan from mainland China. Starting in the 6th century BC, the Classical period of performing art began in Greece, ushered in by the tragic poets such as Sophocles . These poets wrote plays which, in some cases, incorporated dance (see Euripides ). The Hellenistic period began
60-415: Is a single space intended for use by various types of performing arts, including dance, music and theatre. The intended multiple use of performing arts centers in this sense differentiates them from single-purpose concert halls , opera houses , or theatres , although the actual use of single-purpose spaces for other than their intended use is widespread. This sort of space has a long history, extending to
72-843: Is the Celebrity Series of Boston renting venues in Boston's Boch Center . Examples of performance arts complexes include the Kennedy Center in Washington, D.C., the Sydney Opera House , and the Lincoln Center in New York City . For a selection of venues with these terms in their titles, see: List of concert halls A concert hall is a cultural building with a stage that serves as
84-653: The New York Philharmonic , Dave Brubeck , Kronos Quartet , The Chieftains , Leslie Odom Jr. , Renée Elise Goldsberry , Todd Rundgren , Third Coast Percussion , and L.A. Theatre Works . The Fischoff National Chamber Music Competition , which is the largest and oldest continuous chamber music competition in the United States, is held annually at DPAC. Adjacent to the Michael Browning Family Cinema, visitors will find
96-603: The DeBartolo Performing Arts Center with buttery, freshly popped popcorn. Animalus, legenda, amicus, equus Pawnee, perfectum." 41°41′40.9″N 86°14′12.5″W / 41.694694°N 86.236806°W / 41.694694; -86.236806 Performing arts center Performing arts center/centre (see spelling differences ), often abbreviated as PAC , is usually a complex housing performance spaces for various performing arts, including dance, music, and theatre. In some cases it refers to
108-659: The Roman Colosseum and Greek amphitheatres. A cluster of performance spaces, either separate buildings or under one roof, each space designed for a specific purpose such as symphonic music or chamber music or theatre, but multipurpose as a whole, are also described as performing arts centers. The modern version of this came into being only in the 1960s. In Australia, the Centre for the Performing in Adelaide
120-544: The facility is Ted Barron. In addition to performance spaces, the building also contains offices, teaching spaces, and production facilities for Notre Dame's Department of Film, Television, and Theatre, as well as for the Department of Music, the Department of Sacred Music, and the Shakespeare at Notre Dame program. Those who have performed at DPAC include Wynton Marsalis , Itzhak Perlman , Ladysmith Black Mambazo ,
132-514: The widespread use of comedy. Much of which was performed live in a center-point of the community. In 1576, Britain's first playhouse, "The Theatre", was built in Finsbury Fields , London. It was constructed by Leicester's Men – an acting company formed in 1559 from members of the Earl of Leicester's household. New performing arts centers emerged in the latter part of the 20th century as
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#1732765895222144-690: Was the predecessor college of the Adelaide College of the Arts . The Aboriginal Centre for the Performing Arts is a college for Indigenous Australians in Brisbane . Some performing arts center organizations act as sole presenters for events using the venues within the center, but most also frequently rent their performance spaces to other performing arts presenters or self-presenting performing arts groups. An example of this practice
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