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John F. Kennedy Memorial Center for the Performing Arts
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Kennedy Centre seen from the Potomac River

John F. Kennedy Memorial Center for the Performing Arts is located in Central Washington, D.C.

John F. Kennedy Memorial Center for the Performing Arts

John F. Kennedy Memorial Centre for the Performing Arts

Location inside Central Washington, D.C.

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John F. Kennedy Memorial Center for the Performing Arts is located in the United States

John F. Kennedy Memorial Center for the Performing Arts

John F. Kennedy Memorial Eye for the Performing Arts

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Accost 2700 F Street, NW
Location Washington, D.C., United States
Coordinates 38°53′45″N 77°03′21″Due west  /  38.8957°Northward 77.0559°W  / 38.8957; -77.0559 Coordinates: 38°53′45″N 77°03′21″W  /  38.8957°N 77.0559°W  / 38.8957; -77.0559
Public transit WMATA Metro Logo.svg Washington Metro
WMATA Blue.svg WMATA Orange.svg WMATA Silver.svg at Foggy Bottom–GWU station
Bus transport Metrobus
Owner United States authorities
Operator John F. Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts
David Rubenstein, Chairman
Deborah Rutter, President
Type Performing arts heart
Capacity Concert Hall: ii,454
Opera Business firm: 2,294
Eisenhower Theater: 1,161
Terrace Theater: 475
Theater Lab: 398
Family Theater: 320
Jazz Club: 160
Construction
Broke ground December 2, 1964
Opened September 8, 1971 (1971-09-08)
Architect Edward Durell Stone
Structural engineer Severud Assembly
General contractor John McShain
Tenants
National Symphony Orchestra
Washington National Opera
Website
www.kennedy-heart.org

Bust of John F. Kennedy past Robert Berks located opposite the entrance to the Opera House in the Center

The John F. Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts (formally known as the John F. Kennedy Memorial Heart for the Performing Arts, and commonly referred to every bit the Kennedy Center) is the The states National Cultural Center, located on the Potomac River in Washington, D.C. It was named in 1964 as a memorial to assassinated President John F. Kennedy. Opened on September 8, 1971, the center hosts many unlike genres of performance fine art, such every bit theater, dance, orchestras, jazz, popular, and folk music.

Authorized by the 1958 National Cultural Center Human activity of Congress,[i] which requires that its programming be sustained through individual funds, the center represents a public–private partnership. Its activities include educational and outreach initiatives, almost entirely funded through ticket sales and gifts from individuals, corporations, and individual foundations.

The original building, designed by builder Edward Durell Stone,[1] was constructed by Philadelphia contractor John McShain, and is administered as a bureau of the Smithsonian Institution. An before design proposal chosen for a more than curvy, spaceship-inspired building similar to how the Watergate complex appears today.[2] An extension to the Durell Stone Edifice was designed by Steven Holl and opened in 2019. The center receives annual federal funding to pay for building maintenance and operation.

History [edit]

The idea for a national cultural eye dates to 1933 when First Lady Eleanor Roosevelt discussed ideas for the Emergency Relief and Civil Works Administration to create employment for unemployed actors during the Great Depression.[3] Congress held hearings in 1935 on plans to establish a Chiffonier level Section of Science, Art and Literature, and to build a monumental theater and arts edifice on Capitol Hill near the Supreme Court building. A 1938 congressional resolution called for structure of a "public edifice which shall be known equally the National Cultural Center" virtually Judiciary Square, but goose egg materialized.[3]

Flags in the Hall of States

The idea for a national theater resurfaced in 1950, when U.S. Representative Arthur George Klein of New York introduced a bill to authorize funds to plan and build a cultural heart. The neb included provisions that the center would prohibit whatsoever bigotry of cast or audience. In 1955, the Stanford Research Plant was commissioned to select a site and provide design suggestions for the eye.[4] From 1955 to 1958, Congress debated the thought amongst much controversy. A bill was finally passed in Congress in the summer of 1958 and on September 4, President Dwight D. Eisenhower signed into law the National Cultural Center Act which provided momentum for the projection.[5]

This was the first time that the federal government helped finance a structure dedicated to the performing arts. The legislation required a portion of the costs, estimated at $10–25 million, to be raised within five years of the neb's passage.[6] Edward Durell Stone was selected as architect for the projection in June 1959.[vii] He presented preliminary designs to the President's Music Commission in Oct 1959, along with estimated costs of $l million, double the original estimates of $25–30 million. By November 1959, estimated costs had escalated to $61 million.[eight] Despite this, Stone's design was well received in editorials in The Washington Post, Washington Star, and apace approved by the Usa Commission of Fine Arts, National Upper-case letter Planning Commission, and the National Park Service.[9]

The National Cultural Center was renamed the John F. Kennedy Centre for the Performing Arts in 1964, following the assassination of President Kennedy.[x]

Fundraising [edit]

The National Cultural Center Board of Trustees, a group President Eisenhower established Jan 29, 1959, led fundraising.[6] Fundraising efforts were not successful, with only $13,425 raised in the commencement iii years.[11] President John F. Kennedy was interested in bringing culture to the nation'southward uppercase, and provided leadership and support for the project.[12] In 1961, President Kennedy asked Roger L. Stevens to help develop the National Cultural Center, and serve every bit chairman of the Board of Trustees. Stevens recruited First Lady Jacqueline Kennedy as Honorary Chairman of the Center, and former First Lady Mamie Eisenhower as co-chairman.[13] In January 1961, Jarold A. Kieffer became the first Executive Director of the National Cultural Center, overseeing numerous fundraising efforts and assisting with the architectural programme.[14]

The total cost of construction was $70 one thousand thousand.[ten] Congress allocated $43 million for structure costs, including $23 million equally an outright grant and the other $20 million in bonds.[12] Donations also comprised a significant portion of funding, including $5 1000000 from the Ford Foundation, and approximately $500,000 from the Kennedy family.[xv] [16] Other major donors included J. Willard Marriott, Marjorie Merriweather Post, John D. Rockefeller 3, and Robert W. Woodruff, as well every bit many corporate donors.[xvi] Foreign countries provided gifts to the Kennedy Center, including a gift of iii,700 tons of Carrara marble from Italy (worth $i.v million) from the Italian government, which was used in the edifice's construction.[17]

Construction [edit]

President Lyndon B. Johnson dug the ceremonial first-shovel of earth at the groundbreaking for the Kennedy Middle December 2, 1964.[18] However, debate continued for another year over the Foggy Bottom site, with some advocating for another location on Pennsylvania Avenue.[15] Earthworks of the site got underway on December 11, 1965, and the site was cleared past Jan 1967.[19]

The start operation was September 5, 1971, with two,200 members of the full general public in attendance to meet a premiere of Leonard Bernstein'southward Mass in the Opera House,[10] while the Center'south official opening took identify September 8, 1971, with a formal gala and premiere performance of the Bernstein Mass.[20] The Concert Hall was inaugurated September ix, 1971, with a performance by the National Symphony Orchestra conducted past Antal Doráti.[twenty] Alberto Ginastera'south opera, Beatrix Cenci premiered at the Kennedy Center Opera House September 10, 1971. The Eisenhower Theater was inaugurated Oct xviii, 1971, with a performance of A Doll's House starring Claire Bloom.[21]

Compages [edit]

Builder Edward Durell Stone designed the Kennedy Eye.[22] Overall, the building is 100 feet (30 m) loftier, 630 feet (190 m) long, and 300 feet (91 thou) wide. The Kennedy Eye features a 630-foot-long (190 chiliad), 63-foot-high (xix g) chiliad foyer, with 16 hand-diddled Orrefors crystal chandeliers (a souvenir from Sweden) and ruby rug. The Hall of States and the Hall of Nations are both 250-foot-long (76 one thousand), 63-foot-high (19 yard) corridors. The building has drawn criticism virtually its location (far away from Washington Metro stops), and for its scale and form,[22] although it has also fatigued praise for its acoustics, and its terrace overlooking the Potomac River.[22] In her book On Architecture, Ada Louise Huxtable chosen it "gemütlich Speer."[23]

Cyril Thousand. Harris designed the Kennedy Center's auditoriums and their acoustics.[24] A key consideration is that many shipping fly along the Potomac River and overhead the Kennedy Centre, as they take off and state at the nearby Ronald Reagan Washington National Airport. Helicopter traffic over the Kennedy Center is likewise fairly high. To keep out this noise, the Kennedy Center was designed every bit a box within a box, giving each auditorium an extra outer beat.[25]

Later on the original structure was marked for expansion, a competition in 2013 selected Steven Holl Architects to undertake the blueprint.[26] The extension, called The REACH, opened in 2019.[27]

Artwork [edit]

The plaza archway of the Kennedy Center features two tableaus by High german sculptor Jürgen Weber; created between 1965 and 1971, which were a gift to the Kennedy Eye from the West German government. Near the northward end of the plaza is a display of nude figures in scenes representing war and peace, called War or Peace. The piece, 8 ft × 50 ft × one.5 ft (ii.44 m × 15.24 m × 0.46 thousand), depicts five scenes showing the symbolism of state of war and peace: a war scene, murder, family, and inventiveness.[28] At the south end is America which represents Weber'southward image of America (eight × fifty × one.v ft.). Iv scenes are depicted representing threats to freedom, technology, strange assistance and survival, and gratuitous speech.[29] Information technology took the artist iv years to sculpt the two reliefs in plaster, creating 200 castings, and some other ii years for the foundry in Berlin to cast the pieces. In 1994, the Smithsonian Institution's Salvage Outdoor Sculpture! program surveyed War or Peace and America and described them as being well maintained.[28] [29] Another sculpture Don Quixote by Aurelio Teno occupies a site near the northeast corner of the building. Male monarch Juan Carlos I and Queen Sofia of Spain gave the sculpture to the U.s. for its Bicentennial, June 3, 1976.[30]

Venues [edit]

Layout of the 3 main theaters at the Kennedy Center

The Kennedy Center has three master theaters: the Concert Hall, the Opera House, and the Eisenhower Theater.

Concert Hall [edit]

The Concert Hall, located at the due south end of the Center, seats 2,442 including chorister seats and stage boxes, and has a seating system similar to that used in many European halls such every bit Musikverein in Vienna. The Concert Hall is the largest performance space in the Kennedy Center and is the home of the National Symphony Orchestra. A 1997 renovation brought a high-tech acoustical canopy, handicap-accessible locations on every level, and new seating sections (onstage boxes, chorister seats, and parterre seats). The Hadeland crystal chandeliers, given by the Norwegian Crown, were repositioned to provide a clearer view.[17] Canadian organbuilder Casavant Frères constructed and installed a new pipage organ in 2012.[31]

Opera Firm [edit]

The Opera Business firm, in the middle, has almost 2,300 seats. Its interior features include walls covered in red velvet, a distinctive red and gold silk curtain, given past the Japanese government, and Lobmeyr crystal chandelier with matching pendants, which were a gift from the authorities of Austria.[17] It is the major opera, ballet, and large-calibration musical venue of the Center, and airtight during the 2003/2004 season for extensive renovations which provided a revised seating arrangement and redesigned entrances at the orchestra level. It is the home of the Washington National Opera and the annual Kennedy Heart Honors.

Eisenhower Theater [edit]

The Eisenhower Theater, on the north side, seats about one,163 and is named for President Dwight D. Eisenhower, who signed the National Cultural Centre Act into constabulary on September 2, 1958. It primarily hosts plays and musicals, smaller-scale operas, ballet and contemporary dance. The theater contains an orchestra pit for up to 35 musicians that is convertible to a forestage or additional seating infinite. The venue reopened in Oct 2008, following a 16-month renovation which altered the colour scheme and seating arrangements.

Other performance venues [edit]

Entrance to the Theater Lab

The Millennium Stage in 2019

Other performance venues in the Middle include:

  • The Family Theater, with 324 seats, opened December 9, 2005. It replaced the old American Picture show Institute Theater located adjacent to the Hall of States. Designed past the architectural firm Richter Cornbrooks Gribble, Inc. of Baltimore, the new theater incorporates a computerized rigging system; and a digital video project system.
  • The Terrace Theater, with 513 seats, was constructed on the roof terrace level in the late 1970s as a Bicentennial gift from the people of Japan to the United states of america. Information technology is used for chamber music, ballet and gimmicky dance, and theater.
  • The Theater Lab, with 399 seats, currently houses the whodunit Shear Madness which has been playing continuously since August 1987.
  • The Millennium Stage. Role of the concept of "Performing Arts for Everyone" launched by Chairman James Johnson in the winter of 1997, the Millennium Stage provides costless performances every evening at vi:00 pm on two specially created stages at either end of the Chiliad Vestibule. A wide range of art forms are featured on the Millennium Stage. These include performing artists and groups from all 50 states and an Creative person-in-Residence program featuring artists performing several evenings in a calendar month. Every evidence on the Millennium Stage is available as a simulcast of the live bear witness at vi:00 pm, and is archived for later viewing via the Kennedy Center's website.
  • The Terrace Gallery. On March 12, 2003, the space formerly known as the Pedagogy Resource Center was officially designated the Terrace Gallery. It is now home to the Kennedy Center Jazz Social club.

River and rooftop terraces [edit]

The Kennedy Heart offers one of the few open-air rooftop terraces in Washington, D.C.; it is costless of charge to the public from ten:00 a.k. until midnight each 24-hour interval, except when closed for individual events. The broad terrace provides views in all four directions overlooking the Rosslyn skyline in Arlington, Virginia, to the West; the Potomac River and National Airport to the Due south; the Washington Harbor and the Watergate Complex to the North; and the Lincoln Memorial, Section of Country buildings, George Washington University and the Saudi Embassy to the Due east.

The Grand Foyer, at 63 feet (19 yard) loftier and 630 feet (190 m) long, is i of the largest rooms in the globe. If laid on its side, the Washington Monument would fit in this room with 75 feet (23 one thousand) to spare.

Productions [edit]

Dance [edit]

World premiere performances of Kennedy Center-commissioned works have been offered through a commissioning program for new ballet and dance works. These works have been created by America's foremost choreographers—Paul Taylor, Lar Lubovitch, and Merce Cunningham—for leading American dance companies including American Ballet Theatre, Ballet West, Houston Ballet, Pacific Northwest Ballet, Pennsylvania Ballet, and the San Francisco Ballet. The Kennedy Center formerly supported and produced the Suzanne Farrell Ballet in performances at the Center and on extended tours.

The Centre sponsors two almanac trip the light fantastic residency programs for immature people; Exploring Ballet with Suzanne Farrell and the Dance Theatre of Harlem Residency Program, both at present in their 2d decade. The Kennedy Center'due south Contemporary Dance series offers a wide range of artistic perspectives, from the foremost masters of the genre to the art form'southward newest and most exciting artists. In the 2008/2009 series, the Kennedy Center recognized Modern Masters of American Trip the light fantastic, bringing Martha Graham Dance Company, Merce Cunningham Trip the light fantastic toe Company, Limón Dance Visitor, Mark Morris Dance Group, Alvin Ailey American Trip the light fantastic toe Theater, Bill T. Jones/Arnie Zane Dance Visitor and Paul Taylor Dance Visitor.

Education [edit]

In recent years the Kennedy Middle has dramatically expanded its education programs to accomplish young people, teachers, and families throughout the nation. The 2005 opening of the Family Theater has helped achieve this.

Performances for Young Audiences [edit]

Theater for Young Audiences (TYA)

The 2008–2009 season programming for Performances for Young Audiences reached more than 100 performances for young people and their families and over 110 performances for school audiences. The season included four Kennedy Center-commissioned world premieres: The Trumpet of the Swan, a musical adjusted by Pulitzer Prize winner Marsha Norman from the book by E.B. White with music by Jason Robert Brown; Mermaids, Monsters, and the Earth Painted Purple, a new play past Marco Ramirez; Unleashed! The Hush-hush Lives of White House Pets, a new play by Allyson Currin in collaboration with the White House Historical Clan; and Oman...O man!, a new dance product conceived and directed past Debbie Allen and is part of the Center'south Arab festival, Arabesque: Arts of the Arab World. Theater for Immature Audiences on Tour toured with ii nationally touring productions of The Phantom Tollbooth and Blues Journey.

On June 8, 2016 it was announced that the Kennedy Center Theater for Young Audiences-commissioned musical Elephant & Piggie's We are in a Play!, with book and lyrics past Mo Willems and music by Deborah Wicks La Puma, will transfer to the Off-Broadway New Victory Theater in January 2017.[32]

National Symphony Orchestra Performances for Young Audiences

Members of the National Symphony Orchestra will go on to present Teddy Bear Concerts throughout its seasons. During these concerts, children aged three to five bring their favorite stuffed animal to interactive musical programs featuring members of the NSO. Members of the NSO present NSO Ensemble Concerts, connecting music with various school subjects such as science and math, Kinderkonzerts, introducing kids to orchestral instruments and classical composers, as well as NSO Family unit Concerts.

Kennedy Center American College Theater Festival (KCACTF) [edit]

Started in 1969 by Roger L. Stevens, the Kennedy Eye's founding chairman, the Kennedy Center American College Theater Festival (KCACTF) is a national theater program involving eighteen,000 students from colleges and universities nationwide which has served as a catalyst in improving the quality of college theater in the United States. The KCACTF has grown into a network of more than 600 academic institutions throughout the country, where theater departments and student artists showcase their work and receive exterior assessment by KCACTF respondents. Since its establishment in 1969, KCACTF has reached more than than 17.5 million theatergoing students and teachers nationwide.

Changing Teaching Through the Arts (CETA) [edit]

The Kennedy Center'southward CETA program's mission is make the arts a disquisitional component in every child'southward educational activity. CETA, which stands for Changing Education Through the Arts, creates professional development opportunities for teachers and school administrators. Each yr over 700 teachers participate in approximately threescore courses that focus on ways to integrate the arts into their teaching.[33] The Kennedy Middle's CETA program also partners with sixteen schools in the Washington DC Metro area to develop long-range plan for arts integration at their school. Ii of these schools, Kensington Parkwood Elementary School in Kensington, MD and Woodburn Elementary Schoolhouse for the Fine and Chatty Arts in Falls Church, Virginia serve as Inquiry and Development schools for CETA.

Exploring Ballet with Suzanne Farrell (EBSF) [edit]

Exploring Ballet with Suzanne Farrell is a three-week summertime ballet intensive for international pre-professional ballerinas ages xiv–18. Suzanne Farrell, 1 of the most revered ballerinas of the 20th century, has been hosting this Balanchine-inspired intensive at the Kennedy Center since 1993.[34] [35] During their three weeks in Washington, D.C., Farrell'south students practice technique and choreography during twice daily classes, six days per week. Outside of the classroom, excursions, activities and performance events are planned for EBSF students to fully immerse themselves in the civilization of the nation's majuscule.[34]

Festivals [edit]

The Kennedy Center presents festivals jubilant cities, countries, and regions of the world. The festivals are filled with a wide range of performing arts, visual arts, cuisine, and multi-media. In 2008, the Center presented an exploration of the culture of Japan entitled Nihon! culture + hyperculture. The 2009 Arab festival was an unprecedented exploration of the culture of the 22 Arab countries in the League of Arab States, titled Arabesque: Arts of the Arab World. In 2011, the Kennedy Center presented maximum India, a 3-week-long celebration of the arts and civilization of the sub-continent.

Jazz [edit]

Since its establishment in September 1971, the John F. Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts has showcased jazz in solo, diverse ensembles, and big ring settings. In 1994, the Kennedy Center appointed Dr. Baton Taylor as Artistic Advisor for Jazz, and his get-go installation was his own radio show Billy Taylor's Jazz at the Kennedy Middle. Featuring his trio and invitee artists in performance and discussion, the series ran for seven seasons on NPR. Since Taylor'southward appointment in 1994, the Center has initiated numerous operation programs to promote jazz on a national stage, featuring leading international artists and rising stars, including: the Fine art Tatum Piano Panorama, named afterward Dr. Taylor's mentor; the Louis Armstrong Legacy, highlighting vocalists; the Mary Lou Williams Women in Jazz Festival, the outset festival by a major institution promoting outstanding female jazz artists; Across Category, featuring artists whose work transcends genre; the Platinum Series, with internationally acclaimed headliners; Jazz Ambassadors with the United States Department of State, sending musicians on worldwide goodwill tours (1998–2004); the KC Jazz Club, a highly praised intimate setting; and Discovery Artists in the KC Jazz Club, highlighting upward-and-coming talent. Kennedy Center and NPR annually collaborated on the beloved holiday broadcast 'NPR'southward Piano Jazz Christmas', until the retirement of host Marian McPartland, and hence the bear witness, in 2011. Since 2003, the Center's jazz programs accept been regularly circulate on NPR's JazzSet with Dee Dee Bridgewater. Recent highlights, produced by the Center, have included Great Vibes, A Salute to Lionel Hampton (1995); Billy Taylor's 80th Altogether Celebration (2002); Nancy Wilson, A Career Celebration (2003); Michel Legrand with Patti Austin, role of the Center'due south Festival of France (2004); A Tribute to Shirley Horn (2004); James Moody'southward 80th Birthday (2005); and Benny Golson at eighty (2009). In March 2007, the Center hosted a once-in-a-lifetime celebration, Jazz in Our Time, which bestowed the Center's Living Jazz Legend Award to over 30 revered artists. During Dr. Taylor's tenure, the Middle has created recognized educational initiatives, including national jazz satellite distance-learning programs; adult lecture serial; master classes and workshops with national artists and local metropolitan Washington, D.C. students; and Betty Carter'due south Jazz Alee—continuing the vocaliser'southward legacy of identifying outstanding young talent. In 2015, Lady Gaga and Tony Bennett performed there equally office of their Cheek to Cheek Bout.

National Symphony Orchestra (NSO) [edit]

The National Symphony Orchestra, the Kennedy Eye's artistic affiliate since 1987, has deputed dozens of new works, among them Stephen Albert's RiverRun, which won the Pulitzer Prize for Music; Morton Gould's Stringmusic, also a Pulitzer Prize-winner; William Bolcom's Sixth Symphony, Roger Reynolds's george WASHINGTON, and Michael Daugherty'south UFO, a concerto for solo percussion and orchestra.

In addition to its regular season concerts, the National Symphony Orchestra presents outreach, education, and pops programs, equally well as concerts at Wolf Trap each year. The almanac American Residencies for the Kennedy Center is a program unique to the National Symphony Orchestra and the Eye. The Center sends the Orchestra to a different state each yr for an intensive period of performances and didactics encompassing full orchestral, chamber, and solo concerts, master classes and other teaching sessions. The Orchestra has given these residencies in 20 states so far: Alabama, Alaska, Arizona, Arkansas, Kansas, Louisiana, Maine, Mississippi, Nebraska, Nevada, N and Southward Carolina, Oklahoma, North and South Dakota, Tennessee, Vermont, Nevada, and Wyoming/Montana.

The NSO recording of John Corigliano's Of Rage and Remembrance won a Grammy Award in 1996.

Performing Arts for Anybody (PAFE) [edit]

The Kennedy Center is the merely U.S. institution that presents a complimentary performance 365 days a year, daily at 6pm (12 apex on Dec 24). The Millennium Phase, created as part of the Center's Performing Arts for Everyone initiative in 1997 and underwritten past James A. Johnson and Maxine Isaacs, features a broad spectrum of performing arts, from dance and jazz, to bedroom music and folk, comedy, storytelling and theater. In the past twelve years, over 3 million people have attended Millennium Phase performances. The Millennium Stage has presented more than 42,000 artists, which includes over four,000 international artists from more than 70 countries; performers representing all fifty states; and twenty,000 Washington-surface area ensembles and solo artists. The Charlie Byrd Trio and the Billy Taylor Trio were the first artists to delight audiences with a free performance on March 1, 1997. In 1999, the Center began web-casting each night's live performance, and continues to archive and maintain each event in a database of over 3,000 performances which may exist accessed via the Center'south website. Performing Arts for Everyone initiatives likewise include low- and no-price tickets bachelor to performances on every phase of the Kennedy Center, and several outreach programs designed to increment access to Kennedy Eye tickets and performances.

The Conservatory Projection [edit]

An initiative of the Millennium Stage, the Solarium Project is a semi-almanac event occurring in February and May that is designed to present the best immature musical artists in classical, jazz, musical theater, and opera from leading undergraduate and graduate conservatories, colleges and universities.

Artist Residencies [edit]

The Kennedy Centre hosts residencies for artists to collaborate with the Eye's performing ensembles, programmers, and community initiatives. The Center holds positions for Composer-in-Residence, Instruction Artist-in-Residence, and Culture Artist-in-Residence. The electric current artists-in-residence are The Roots, author Jacqueline Woodson, composer Carlos Simon, and pianist Robert Glasper.[36]

Theater [edit]

The Centre has co-produced more than than 300 new works of theater over the past 43 years, including Tony-winning shows ranging from Annie in 1977 to A Few Good Men, How to Succeed in Business Without Actually Trying, The King and I, Titanic, and the American premiere of Les Misérables. The Heart also produced the Sondheim Commemoration (six Stephen Sondheim musicals) in 2002, Tennessee Williams Explored (three of Tennessee Williams' archetype plays) in 2004, Mame starring Christine Baranski in 2006, Carnival! in 2007, August Wilson'south Pittsburgh Cycle (Wilson'due south complete ten-play cycle performed as fully staged readings) and Broadway: Three Generations both in 2008, and a new production of Ragtime in 2009. The Kennedy Eye Fund for New American Plays has provided disquisitional support in the evolution of 135 new theatrical works. In 2011, a new production of Follies starring Bernadette Peters opened at the Eisenhower Theater, and transferred to Broadway that autumn.[ needs update ]

Kennedy Center Honors [edit]

Since 1978, the Kennedy Heart Honors have been awarded annually by the Center's Board of Trustees. Each year, v artists or groups are honored for their lifetime contributions to American culture and the performing arts, including dance, music, theater, opera, flick, and television.[37] The Centre has awarded the Mark Twain Prize for American Sense of humour since 1998.

Local performing arts organizations [edit]

Many local arts organizations nowadays (or have presented) their piece of work at the Kennedy Center. Some of these include:

  • American Moving-picture show Plant
  • The Washington Chorus
  • The Cathedral Choral Society of Washington
  • Choral Arts Social club of Washington
  • Opera Lafayette
  • VSA arts
  • The Washington Ballet
  • Washington Concert Opera
  • Washington National Opera
  • Washington Performing Arts Guild[38]
  • Woolly Mammoth Theatre Company
  • Young Concert Artists of Washington[39]

Other events [edit]

During the American Bicentennial, the Kennedy Center hosted numerous special events throughout 1976, including half dozen commissioned plays.[xl] The centre hosted free performances by groups from each land.[41] In December 1976, Mikhail Baryshnikov's version of The Nutcracker ballet played for two weeks.[42] The Kennedy Eye also hosts special inauguration events and galas.

In 1977, the Opera House hosted George Bernard Shaw's Caesar and Cleopatra with Male monarch Harrison and Elizabeth Ashley.[43] The American Ballet Theatre has besides often performed at the Kennedy Center.[44] The troupe's 2004 product of Swan Lake, choreographed past Kevin McKenzie, was taped there, shown on PBS in June 2005, and released on DVD shortly after. Productions of The Lion King and Trevor Nunn's product of My Off-white Lady (choreographed by Matthew Bourne) were presented in the 2007–2008 season, to name a few.[45]

The 50th Anniversary Celebration Concert was held on September fourteen, 2021, and is scheduled to air on PBS on October 1, 2021. Audra McDonald hosted, and First lady Jill Biden gave opening remarks.[46]

Millennium Stage Archives [edit]

The Kennedy Center stages gratuitous daily performances on its Millennium Stage in the Grand Antechamber. Featured on the Millennium Stage are a range of art forms, including performing artists and groups.

The ii theaters of The Millennium Stage are equipped with lights, sound systems, and cameras. Every costless issue performed at this stage is recorded and archived on the Kennedy Eye'due south website. These athenaeum take been available to the public for free since 2009.[47]

VSA [edit]

VSA (formerly VSA arts) is an international nonprofit system founded in 1974 by Ambassador Jean Kennedy Smith to create a gild where people with disabilities learn through, participate in, and enjoy the arts. VSA provides educators, parents, and artists with resource and the tools to support arts programming in schools and communities. VSA showcases the accomplishments of artists with disabilities and promotes increased access to the arts for people with disabilities. Each year 7 million people participate in VSA programs through a nationwide network of affiliates and in 54 countries around the globe. Affiliated with the Kennedy Heart since 2005, VSA was officially merged into the system in 2011 to go part of the Center's Department of VSA and Accessibility.

Renovations and expansion [edit]

On June 16, 1971, Congress authorized appropriations for one yr to the Lath of Trustees for operating and maintenance expenses. In following years, the appropriations were provided to the National Park Service for operations, maintenance, security, prophylactic and other functions not directly related to the performing arts activities.[48] The National Park Service and the Kennedy Heart signed a cooperative understanding requiring each party to pay a portion of the operating and maintenance costs based on what proportion of time the building was to be used for performing arts functions. The agreement did not specify who was responsible for long-term majuscule improvement projects at the Kennedy Center, along with only periodic funding by Congress for one-time projects.[49]

1990–2005 [edit]

In fiscal years 1991 and 1992, Congress recommended that $27.7 million be allocated for capital letter improvement projects at the Eye, including $12 million for structural repairs to the garage and $15.7 million for structural and mechanical repairs, likewise equally projects for improving handicapped access.[50] In 1994, Congress gave full responsibility to the Kennedy Center for capital improvement projects and facility management.[51] From 1995 to 2005, over $200 one thousand thousand of federal funds were allocated to the Kennedy Centre for long-term capital projects, repairs, and to bring the center into compliance with modern burn down rubber and accessibility codes.[51] Improvements included renovation of the Concert Hall, Opera House, plaza-level public spaces, and a new fire alert system.[52] The renovations projects were completed 13 to l percent over upkeep, due to modifications of plans during the renovations resulting in overtime and other penalties.[53] Renovations to the Eisenhower Theater were completed in 2008.[45]

2013–nowadays [edit]

Start in 2013, the Center commenced with an lx,000 square feet (5,600 grandii) expansion project on four acres in the Center's Southward Plaza. The expansion adds classroom, rehearsal, and performance infinite and includes three pavilions (the Welcome Pavilion, the Skylight Pavilion, and the River Pavilion), reflecting pool, a tree grove, a sloping lawn to be used for outdoor performances, and a pedestrian span over Rock Creek Parkway.[54] [55] The architect is Steven Holl,[55] with assistance from architectural firm BNIM.[56] Edmund Hollander Landscape Architects is the landscape architect.[57]

Plans for the project began after David Thousand. Rubenstein donated $50 million to the centre.[56] A groundbreaking ceremony took place in December 2014. Originally estimated to cost $100 million, the cost of the project grew to $175 1000000, and design changes and a major D.C. sewer project significantly delayed construction. The expansion, entitled the Reach, opened on September seven, 2019 with an opening arts festival.[55] [58] [59] The fundraising goal for the new Reach arts center grew to $250 million[threescore] as the project progressed, and the target was achieved just two days before opening. Since its opening, the REACH equally received several design awards, such as the Architect's Newspaper All-time of the Year Award in the Cultural category and an Honor Honor in the 2020 AIA NY Blueprint Awards.[61] [62]

Management [edit]

Prior to 1980, daily operations of the Kennedy Center were overseen past the chairman of the board of directors, and by the lath itself. Aspects of the center's programming and operations were overseen by various other people. George London was the Kennedy Center'southward start executive managing director (ofttimes called "artistic director" by the press, although that was not the formal title), serving from 1968 to 1970,[63] while William McCormick Blair, Jr. was its first administrative director.[64] Julius Rudel took over as music managing director in 1971.[65] In 1972, Martin Feinstein replaced London and held the position of creative managing director until 1980.[66] Marta Casals Istomin was named the first female artistic managing director in 1980, a position she held until 1990;[67] she was besides the first person to exist formally invested with that championship.[68] [69]

In 1991, the board created the position of master operating officer to remove the day-to-day operations of the Kennedy centre from the chairman and board. Lawrence Wilker was hired to fill the position, which later on was retitled president.[70] The artistic director continued to oversee artistic programming, nether the president's direction.

Michael Kaiser became president of the Kennedy Center in 2001. He left the arrangement when his contract expired in September 2014.[lxx] [71]

In September 2014, Deborah F. Rutter became its third president; she is the first woman to hold that post. Rutter had previously been president of the Chicago Symphony Orchestra Association, a position she held from 2003.[67]

Board of Trustees [edit]

The Kennedy Center Board of Trustees, formally known every bit the Trustees of the John F. Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts, maintains and administers the Centre and its site. David M. Rubenstein is the chairman of the board.

The honorary chair members of the board are the First Lady and her living predecessors. Members of the board are specified by 20 USC 76h and include ex officio members such as the Secretary of Health and Human Services, the Librarian of Congress, the Secretary of State (substituting for the Manager of the United States Data Agency later that agency was abolished), the Chairman of the Committee of Fine Arts, the Mayor of the District of Columbia, the Superintendent of Schools of the District of Columbia, the Director of the National Park Service, the Secretary of Education and the Secretary of the Smithsonian Institution, as well as 36 general trustees appointed by the President of the United States for vi-year terms.[72]

See also [edit]

  • Listing of memorials to John F. Kennedy

References [edit]

Notes

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  8. ^ Meersman, Roger (1980). "The Kennedy Center: From Dream to Reality". Records of the Columbia Historical Lodge. l: 543.
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External links [edit]

  • Official website
  • The John F. Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts at Google Cultural Institute

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