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ARTS & CULTURE
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ARTS & CULTURE
PERFORMING ARTS Copper Coin Ballet Company
Rooted in history, the Copper Coin Ballet Company moves artists and audiences through dance. Most performances are held at The Legacy Theatre.
Hoogland Center for the Arts The Hoogland Center for the Arts is an
80,000-square-foot facility housing three major performance spaces for plays, musicals, dance recitals, concerts and events. Several arts organizations are based here, and the Springfield Art Association’s H.D. Smith Gallery hosts ever- changing exhibitions. Hoogland Education offers students a year-long program or quarterly classes in the performing arts.
The Narrator in The Nutcracker, SYPG
Rock The Conservatory, Springfield Youth Performance Group (SYPG)
The Legacy Theatre The Legacy Theatre likes to say that it’s both the oldest theatre in Springfield and also the newest. Built in 1951 as the home of the Springfield Theatre Guild, the building was vacated in 2004. Rescued and renovated by a grass-roots group in 2011 and renamed the Legacy Theatre, the building is once again filled with applause. The Legacy has emerged as an eclectic new voice in the Central Illinois arts landscape, known for its lavish productions of Broadway musicals as well as concerts, films and events for families. Kids in grades 6-9 – check out StageRats, its theatrical arts summer camp. The Muni As the sun sets the curtain rises on warm summer nights at The Muni. In 1950, the Springfield Municipal Opera Association transformed a 55-acre wheat field near the shores of Lake Springfield into an outdoor amphitheater. Seventy-five years and more than one million visitors later, the organization has become one of the largest community theatre organizations in the country, producing four musicals each summer.
T hink you have to go to a large coastal city to find amazing arts and culture? Think again. Springfield has an incredibly rich arts and culture scene, complete with art galleries and collectives, theater, comedy and music. You can also catch Broadway shows, top-notch ballet performances and symphony orchestra concerts. In fact, Springfield was named to the #27 spot in an ApartmentGuide’s 2019 article compiling the top 50 cities for arts lovers. As the article asks, “Any list can put NYC at the top, but what are the best cities for art lovers per capita?” The author explored oft-underrated and underappreciated art cities in America based on the ratio of art galleries and dealers, art museums, art supply stores, cultural art organizations and more, in relation to population. Springfield shows one art business per 4,102 residents. So, where can you find the arts in Sangamon County?
Springfield Youth Performance Group
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