DeBartolo Performing Arts Center

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Marie P. DeBartolo Performing Arts Center
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DeBartolo Performing Arts Center (DPAC)
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Location within Notre Dame, Indiana
Alternative namesDeBartolo Performing Arts Center (DPAC)
General information
StatusArts Center
Town or city Notre Dame, Indiana
Country United States
Completed2004
Client University of Notre Dame
Owner University of Notre Dame
Technical details
Floor area150,990 sq ft (14,027 m2)
Design and construction
Architect(s) Hardy Holzman Pfeiffer Associates
Website
performingarts.nd.edu/our-story//

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. [1] 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. [2] [3] The current executive director of the facility is Ted Barron. [4] 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.

Contents

Performance Spaces

Programming

Those who have performed at DPAC include Wynton Marsalis, Itzhak Perlman, Ladysmith Black Mambazo, 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.

Notable Displays

Adjacent to the Michael Browning Family Cinema, visitors will find 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 the DeBartolo Performing Arts Center with buttery, freshly popped popcorn. Animalus, legenda, amicus, equus Pawnee, perfectum." [10]

Li'l Sebastian plaque in the DeBartolo Performing Arts Center. Li'l Sebastian Plaque at DPAC.jpg
Li'l Sebastian plaque in the DeBartolo Performing Arts Center.

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