GITTINGS COMPLEX EXP / STEVIE ELLER DANCE THEATRE
Description: Expands the Ina E. Gittings complex for the School of Music and Dance, Dance Division. The facility includes a new performance dance venue, Stevie Eller Dance Theatre, of approximately 300 seats, studio and support spaces to the east of the existing Gittings facility.
Project Number 00-8159
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 Delivery Method Design/Bid/Build
Projected Budget $10,500,000 [learn more]
Size 25600 gross sq. ft.
16460 net sq. ft.
Construction Schedule March 2002 - July 2003
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PDC Design Manager Dourlein, Pete
PDC Construction Manager McCarthy, Dennis
Architech/Engineer Gould Evans Associates
Contractor C F Jordan Construction
Hickam Arnold and Associates LLC dba Hickam Construction Company
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Design Intent: This building is an integration of art, movement and architecture. The 300-seat theater is accompanied by space for support functions, studios, and teaching. Components include full flytower, control suite catwalks, box booms, orchestra pit, indoor/outdoor lobby, outdoor stage, and scene and costume shops. A divider separates dressing rooms on performance night and can be rolled up into the ceiling to transform the spaces into a somatics studio which opens to a courtyard. The dance studio is a glass box that celebrates the dance program and functions as a display window to the university mall. It is protected from the elements by a scrim of woven wire.