Judson and Joyce Green Center
for the Performing Arts

The Judson and Joyce Green Center for the Performing Arts, being dedicated in the fall of 2007, provides the School of Music with new faculty offices which double as teaching studios, practice rooms for individual students and small groups of performers, and purpose-built rehearsal spaces shared by band and orchestra, percussion, jazz, wind and chamber ensembles. Additional classrooms and instructional spaces include spaces for electronic keyboard instruction, music composition, and recording technologies. The purpose-built rehearsal spaces can be used as occasional performance venues, in addition to Kresge Auditorium and Thompson Recital Hall, accommodating a wide variety of events. Also in the new performing arts center is the communication and theatre department, which offers DePauw's most popular major. Improved classrooms include DePauw's first purpose-built spaces for teaching of acting and dance, and a new theater-style classroom suitable for rhetoric and debate as well as for film studies and screenings. Kerr Theater, DePauw's blackbox experimental theater space, has been enlarged by 50 percent in the renovation.

A state-of-the-art recording studio allows performance students to make master recordings of their repertoire and will also provide facilities for training students in digital recording techniques. An expanded library space provides improved support for print and recorded collections of music, communication, and theater with improved listening areas and work stations.

 

Technical Documentation