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HONORING SENIORS

IT’S COMING... by Michelle Stephens

The Buddy

Holly Hall of
Performing Arts

and Sciences

Upon its completion in 2020, The
Buddy Holly Hall of Performing
Arts and Sciences will change the
face of entertainment and visual and
performing arts education across the
South Plains. The hall was designed
by world-renowned Diamond
Schmitt Architects, based in Toronto, LISD student performances, from Center, Parkway Elementary, and
Canada, in partnership with MWM elementary through high school the Boys and Girls Club. The new
and Parkhill Smith and Cooper, levels, for UIL competitions and location at Buddy Holly Hall will
to be state-of-the-art, not only for smaller theater productions. Having allow them more than double the
viewers, but also for performers. LISD as a cornerstone resident of space of their current dance studio
A 2,200 seat, world-class theatre in Buddy Holly Hall adds further and will allow them to be closer to
Lubbock will bring in top Broadway tribute to the legacy of Buddy Holly, the communities they serve in north
shows, entertainers and performers, who was an LISD graduate and and east Lubbock.
comedians, and musicians from all member of the Lubbock High School Imagine the impact that Lubbock
over the world. The acoustic quality choir. ISD and Ballet Lubbock together
of the theatres at Buddy Holly Hall Ballet Lubbock is another anchor at Buddy Holly Hall will have in
are an NC Level 15, the highest tenant of Buddy Holly Hall, our community. Aspiring ballet
quality acoustics for a performing occupying the 22,000 square foot dancers will perform on a stage in
arts hall achieved by only ten other dance facility inside the building. Lubbock, Texas, designed by the
venues across the country. The dance center will contain the same renowned architects as the new

A unique aspect of Buddy Holly entire operation of Ballet Lubbock, Mariinsky Theatre in St. Petersburg,
Hall is that it is designed to be a including six dance studios, parent Russia. School-aged students will
true performing arts campus, home and community space, production perform in a theatre that has the
to both a ballet school and fine arts areas and administrative offices. same world-class acoustic quality
programs for K-12. Ballet Lubbock boasts more than 300 as only ten others across the nation.
students and more than 120 families The possibilities are endless for
The Lubbock Independent School visiting its studios five days a week. upcoming generations of aspiring
District Fine Arts programs will call Through community outreach artists, dancers, actors, entertainers
Buddy Holly Hall “home”, hosting programming, Ballet Lubbock and musicians, who will be inspired
more than 24,000 Lubbock students sponsors free and subsidized dance deep in their souls by everything
enrolled in fine arts classes. The classes at Maxey, Hodges, the Maggie Buddy Holly Hall will bring to our
425-seat theater at Buddy Holly Hall Trejo Community Centers, the community.
will provide a unique setting for Guadalupe/Parkway Neighborhood

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