Sited adjacent to New York City’s most sacred space, the Perelman Performing Arts Center is the cultural anchor and last public component of the World Trade Center master plan. This puts art on display for its healing potential in a commemorative setting. As a producing house for theater, music, dance, opera, and film, PAC NYC introduces innovative theatrical adaptability that will fuel artists’ creativity and allow them to continue surprising audiences with something new on every visit.
© Iwan Baan
Sited adjacent to New York City’s most sacred space, the Perelman Performing Arts Center is the cultural anchor and last public component of the World Trade Center master plan. This puts art on display for its healing potential in a commemorative setting. As a producing house for theater, music, dance, opera, and film, PAC NYC introduces innovative theatrical adaptability that will fuel artists’ creativity and allow them to continue surprising audiences with something new on every visit. © Iwan Baan
PAC NYC is designed as a multi-configurative performance venue, with its theaters and scene docks combinable in ten ways for sixty-two possible stage-audience configurations ranging from 90 to 950 seats. This allows creative teams enormous leeway to shape the spaces in keeping with unique artistic vision and audience experiences, aided by automated and manual technical systems available for configuration. Among these are four acoustic “guillotine”...