Dallas Center for the Performing Arts Foundation Announces the Formation of Its Flagship Corporate Alliance; Four Founding Companies Give Initial $1.1 Million.Entertainment Editors/Business Editors DALLAS--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Feb. 11, 2004 The Dallas Center for the Performing Arts This article or section contains information about expected future buildings or structures. Some or all of this information may be speculative, and the content may change as building construction begins. Foundation announced today the formation of its Flagship Corporate Alliance. PricewaterhouseCoopers, Deloitte, The Staubach Stau·bach , Roger Thomas Born 1942. American football player. As quarterback for the Dallas Cowboys (1969-1979), he led the National Football League in passing five times and guided his team to two Super Bowl victories. Company and Bank of America
Bank of America (NYSE: BAC TYO: 8648 ) is the largest commercial bank in the United States in terms of deposits, and the largest company of its kind in the world. are the founders of the Flagship Corporate Alliance and have made collective gifts of $1.1 million to help construct the Center. The Alliance, a consortium of various kinds and sizes of companies each of which is supporting the campaign to build the Center at one of several gift thresholds, will invite additional companies to join the Alliance to help achieve the consortium's goal of raising significant funds from the corporate sector, prior to the Center's opening in 2009. Beginning in February the founders of the Flagship Corporate Alliance will be hosting luncheons, dinners and other events for the chief executives of Dallas area companies to report on the progress of the campaign to build the Center, explain the Alliance and invite participation. Today, $158 million of a total projected cost of $275 million has been committed to the campaign to build the Center, including $140 million in gifts from Dallas families, corporations, and foundations and $18 million approved by Dallas voters in last May's bond election. Dallas corporations have already made contributions totaling more than $13 million to help build the Center. About the Dallas Center for the Performing Arts Foundation: Organized in September 2000, the Foundation's mission is to complete planning and raise funds to design and construct the Dallas Center for the Performing Arts. When completed, the Dallas Center for the Performing Arts will provide world-class settings for performances of opera, musical theater, classic and experimental theater, ballet and other forms of dance. The Center's theaters will become the main stage production facilities for The Dallas Opera The Dallas Opera is an opera company located in Dallas, Texas (USA). It was founded in 1957 as the Dallas Civic Opera by Laurence Kelly and Nicola Rescigno, both of whom had been active with the Lyric Opera of Chicago, the first as administrator, the second as artistic director. , the Dallas Theater Center The Dallas Theater Center is a major regional theater in Dallas, Texas (USA). It produces classic, contemporary and new plays. The theater is based in the Kalita Humphreys Theater, a building designed by famous American architect Frank Lloyd Wright. , Dallas Black Dance Theatre, Texas Ballet Theater, Anita N. Martinez Ballet Folklorico, and many of the other performing arts organizations that serve Dallas and the surrounding sur·round tr.v. sur·round·ed, sur·round·ing, sur·rounds 1. To extend on all sides of simultaneously; encircle. 2. To enclose or confine on all sides so as to bar escape or outside communication. n. area. The Center is expected to infuse in·fuse v. 1. To steep or soak without boiling in order to extract soluble elements or active principles. 2. To introduce a solution into the body through a vein for therapeutic purposes. $170 million annually into the Dallas economy and create 2,000 new jobs in Dallas' arts and hospitality industries. The Foundation's Web address is www.dallasperformingarts.org. |
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