Prior Performing Arts Center

Interest Areas: Art, Dance, Multicultural, Music / Singing, Theatre

Opened in fall 2022, the Prior Performing Arts Center at College of the Holy Cross offers world-class spaces to experience and train in the performing and creative arts. It also catalyzes transformational exchange between the arts and other disciplines. Here, inclusive learning and research are supported by state-of-the-art performance, multimedia, and exhibition technology, as well as by architectural elements promoting flexibility, collectivity, and process. The Prior Performing Arts Center invokes the Jesuit tenet that active learning in the arts is fundamental to a liberal arts education. And it demonstrates Holy Cross belief in the arts uncommon power to poseand to advancethe pressing questions of our day.