The Metropolitan Kansas City Performing Arts Center (PAC) announced last month that they are reviewing the idea of relocating the site of the Center to the block between 10th and 11th streets and Wyandotte and Central Streets. The concept as described would be to renovate the Lyric Theater as a home for the Kansas City Ballet and the Lyric Opera and to construct a new home for the Kansas City Symphony on the adjacent parking lot to the east of the current Lyric building. The project also envisions the idea of including the Todd Bolender Center for Dance and Creativity on the footprint thus continuing the original concept of creating an urban campus for the arts. “From a performance and operations standpoint, the idea of the ballet and opera sharing the theater is very exciting,” says Jeffrey Bentley, the Ballet’s Executive Director. “It will permit each of us to grow our seasons and number of performances. In addition, the symphony will have a proper home for its concerts.” During the six
month period the PAC needs to consider this idea, the Ballet will
also be reviewing the many opportunities this new direction may offer
in terms of programming, instruction and dancer development.
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