The Arts District: A Performance, An Identity
Conversation
To celebrate this week’s opening of the Dee and Charles Wyly Theater and the Winspear Opera House, Renegade Bus’ Peter Simek talks with AT&T Performing Arts Center CEO Mark Nerenhausen about the Arts District and what its means for Dallas.
Part One of Two
In August, I sat down with Dallas Center for Performing Arts CEO Mark Nerenhausen to discuss the new venues and the Arts District for an article I was working on for D Magazine. You can read that article here, which is part of the magazine’s October issue devoted entirely to the Dallas Arts District. In addition to talking about the ideas and issues raised in the D Magazine piece, the conversation broached a range of Mr. Nerenhausen’s ideas about and hopes for the new Dallas Center for the Performing Arts (now the AT&T Performing Arts Center).
Mark Nerenhausen |
To celebrate the opening of the center this week, Renegade Bus has received permission to post the conversation. Below, you will find part one. The second installment will be posted to Renegade Bus tomorrow.
On leaving the Broward Center for the Performing Arts in Fort Lauderdale, Florida after ten years and coming to Dallas.
“A vision for what culture means to a community.”
On the theater-building urge and the identity of place.
The end vision: What’s an arts district?
The Arts District as an organizing principle.
Tomorrow in part two:
“We are not going to solve the art problem,” opening during tough economic times, and the fundamental vision of the Arts District.
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