Tennessee Performing Arts Center
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Nashville, TN 37243
Organization Details

Programs

Budget
$91,329.00
Description
InsideOut is for adults who want to grow in their knowledge and enjoyment of the performing arts. Events come in many shapes and sizes, and in many different places both inside and out of TPAC's downtown Nashville theaters. InsideOut offers a series of lunch seminars, rehearsal and performance excerpts, workshops, and sneak previews behind-the-scenes. In 2021-2022, InsideOut partnered with 20 community and art organizations, including Vanderbilt University, Nashville Ballet, Nashville Opera, Nashville Repertory Theatre, Nashville Film Festival, and eight National Broadway Touring productions. More than 1,034 individuals participated in the season events, among others.
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Budget
$85,682.00
Description
The Spotlight Awards program provides specialized access to performing arts resources and education in Tennessee schools. Community-building events, workshops, and professional growth opportunities are available to ensure pathways for high school students at any level and area of focus. High schools apply for their musical performances to be adjudicated by performing arts professionals for consideration in individual, ensemble and technical achievement. In May, the program culminates with the Spotlight Awards ceremony at TPAC, where the top nominees perform songs from their productions. Honors are presented in categories including vocals, dance, design, direction, and technical theatre. The winners of the awards for "Best Actor" and "Best Actress" move on to national consideration for The Jimmy Awards in New York. In 2022-23, forty-four high schools from 13 Tennessee counties will participate in the program, engaging more than 2,000 students.
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Budget
$295,748.00
Description
Disney Musicals in Schools develops sustainable afterschool theatre programs in public elementary and middle schools. The program introduces the collaborative art of musical theatre; strengthens arts programming; and develops partnerships among students, faculty, staff, and the greater community. Participating schools receive (at no cost) a performance license to any Disney KIDS/JR musical, ShowKit materials, including directors guides, student scripts, accompaniment and guide vocal CDs and a choreography DVD, cross-curricular activities; and in-school support from a team of two TPAC teaching artists for 20 weeks. In 2021-2022, over 200 students in 7 schools in Davidson, Bedford, Coffee & Cumberland County Public Schools took part in Disney Musicals in Schools during its eleventh year. A total of 9 schools, 300 students, and 20 teachers will participate in 2022-2023; including 20 weeks of rehearsals with TPAC teaching artists. Schools will be comprised of 50% or higher economic need.
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Budget
$102,637.00
Description
Wolf Trap is a nationally affiliated program that utilizes the disciplines of music, dance, theater, and puppetry as powerful tools for educating pre-school children. Professional performing artists partner with early childhood educators and create activities that target curriculum and developmental goals for 3-to-5 year olds, including emerging literacy skills, academic concepts, social interaction, and self-expression. Wolf Trap residencies and workshops also provide training for teachers in arts-based instruction techniques they can employ in their classrooms. Throughout the 2020-2022 pandemic, TPAC's Wolf Trap program provided virtual residencies in 6 Head Start Centers as well as limited in person residencies in Metro PreK centers once policies changed. TPAC typically serves 1,400 preschool children in Davidson County PreK centers for a dozen sessions, with professional development opportunities for 150 participating teachers.
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Budget
$315,031.00
Description
TPAC's Season for Young People (SYP) presents an outstanding season of local, national, and internationally-acclaimed music, dance, and theatre performances for school groups. Performances complement curriculum objectives and introduce students to a rich variety of artistic and cultural experiences. More than 1.7 million PreK-12th grade students and teachers have attended the Season for Young People performances since 1983. In the 2021-22 academic year, 45,191 students and teachers attended SYP performances and 60% of the audience benefitted from TPAC's free and half-price ticket program for schools with economically disadvantaged students. More than 30,000 K-12th grade students are anticipated to attend SYP performances in person and virtually this year.


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CEO/Executive Director/Board Comments

TPAC programs are designed to make a life-long change in the individuals we work with, prompting them to learn from, seek out, participate in, and enjoy the rich variety of performing and visual arts available to them. We take seriously the feedback and reporting mechanisms we use to evaluate our programs and respond to the needs of our audiences. Survey results, audience data, and formal and anecdotal reports from the classroom submitted by teachers, teaching artists and staff members are all available by request.