5.4: Facilities
Create vibrant arts facilities on all three campuses Other Information:
Duke seeks to transform each of its three campuses - Central, East, and West - with vibrant new and renovated arts facilities.
On the new Central Campus, several arts programs and departments will be brought together in distinctive new facilities. Central
will be the home for the Department of Art, Art History and Visual Studies, the Program in Film/Video/Digital, and possibly
the Center for Documentary Studies. Also under consideration are facilities for creative writing, dance, digital music, theater,
and a visiting artist program; a film theater is envisioned that will serve both the academic programs as well as the wider
community. In planning these facilities, we will ensure that there are strong southward pedestrian connections to the Nasher
Museum. East Campus will become a center for dance, theater, and particularly music. We began implementing this strategy in
the summer of 2006 when the Branson Building was renovated as the home of the Brody Theater. In the near future we will both
transform Baldwin Auditorium into a first-class concert hall for music and address other needs of the Music Department, which
may involve modest renovations in the Biddle Music Building and the Nelson Music Room in the East Duke Building. Finally,
the historic Ark will continue to be used as a dance rehearsal and performance space. West Campus is the home for creative
writing and our major facilities for artistic performance. The opening this fall of the new West Campus Plaza began the process
of renovating a series of surrounding buildings. As part of this project, Page Auditorium will be re-imagined and rebuilt
as a modern performing arts hall, which, when complete, will complement the performing arts facilities of the Reynolds, Sheafer,
and Griffith Theaters, forming a performance complex in the heart of West Campus. Throughout all three campuses - and with
particular emphasis on Central - we will build or identify informal and flexible spaces for student arts activities, spaces
that can be re-made according to the evolving needs of students. Such spaces might include coffeehouses for readings or performances,
"garage" spaces for musical rehearsal and performance, and studios for dance and theater rehearsals.
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