In November, we honored our retired faculty and staff with a luncheon and heard stories from them about the first magical, and sometimes trying, days of the School. Open Dream Ensemble, a troupe made of NCSA alumni, performed during Family Weekend in October. We’ve designed a special 40th anniversary logo, which now graces everything from stationary to magnets to banners. To celebrate, we’ve planned a number of events and projects throughout the year. Thanks to the handful of visionary leaders who believed in the value of this, along with those who have continued the work in this tradition, we now have a 40-year legacy of excellent training for artists.
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When our School was conceived, the primary purpose was to be "the professional training, as distinguished from the liberal arts instruction, of talented students in the fields of music, drama, the dance and allied performing arts, at both the high school and college levels of instruction, with emphasis placed upon performance of the arts, and not upon academic studies of the arts," as the N.C. We’re not only still around, we have earned our place among the top arts training institutions in the world. There were critics that proclaimed our certain failure. But there was much resistance to our proposed School. And of spices from the Orient… professional careers in the arts, could come to train. You have your days of diamonds just ahead. Forty years later, it is hard to imagine that, at the time, there was resistance to the idea of creating a place in North Carolina where young artists, aspiring to “This school is in its days of pearls. 7, No.11 Our First 40 Years…And Our Next O N SEPTEMBER 7, 1965, THE FIRST CLASSES WERE HELD at North Carolina School of the Arts.
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