Chapter 4 - Academic Goals and Strategies to Build Distinction
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.
Strengthen arts leadership
A sustained effort to take the arts to a higher level at Duke requires effective leadership and coordination, and we will implement administrative structures to guide and oversee our arts initiatives, working closely with the Dean of the Humanities, the Council for the Arts, and faculty, particularly faculty artists. The administrative leadership must also enhance university-wide arts communication, fundraising, and audience development.
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