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Lavine additionally expressed an institutional ambition for CalArts to contribute to the local community and participate in a broader dialogue about emerging forms of art and performance. The aim was to offer Los Angeles residents exposure to innovative art forms more consistently than occasional events (e.g. 1984 Olympic Arts Festival).
The CalArts Center for New Performance (CNP) is the professional producing arm of the California Institute of the Arts. [1]Founded in 2002 by Susan Solt, Travis Preston, and Carol Bixler and launched with Travis Preston's groundbreaking all female production of King Lear, and originally called the CalArts Center for New Theater, the name was changed in 2005.
The Los Angeles Music Center (officially the Performing Arts Center of Los Angeles County) is one of the largest performing arts centers in the United States. [1] Located in downtown Los Angeles, The Music Center is composed of the Dorothy Chandler Pavilion, Ahmanson Theatre, Mark Taper Forum, Roy & Edna Disney CalArts Theatre (REDCAT), and Walt Disney Concert Hall.
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The ground-breaking for CalArts' current campus took place on May 3, 1969, as part of the Master Plan for a new planned community in the Santa Clarita Valley of Los Angeles. However, construction of the new campus was hampered by torrential rains, labor shortages, and the Sylmar Earthquake in 1971 .
The theatre's location at the intersection of Downtown Los Angeles’ two busiest retail streets of the early 1920s [8] ensured that the theatre was a consistent money maker. [5] At the time of the State Theatre’s opening the theatre’s projection booth was proclaimed to be the largest in the world [ 3 ] and boasted the unique feature of a ...
The first film shown at the Warner Cinerama was This is Cinerama, which grossed $3,845,200 ($45 million in 2024) in its first 115 weeks, a Los Angeles record. The film closed 133 weeks after it opened and on November 15, 1955, Cinerama Holiday opened, playing for 81 weeks and grossing $2,212,600 ($25.6 million in 2024).
In 1991, the building was sold to Mayer Separzadeh, who converted the theater into a swap meet. To protect the building from drastic changes, the building was declared a Los Angeles Historic-Cultural Monument in September 1991. [5] The theater was purchased by the now-defunct Community Redevelopment Agency of the City of Los Angeles in 2008. [6]