Monday, September 12, 2022

Centerville High School Performing Arts Center Informations

September 12, 2022 Posted By AdseRudita

The Centerville Schools Performing Arts Center is a theater venue in the Dayton, Ohio area that opened in December 2007. It has a 1,200-seat main auditorium and contains a modern dance studio, scene shop, and other support areas. A prominent feature of the center is the two-story glass lobby. The new PAC was financed by a levy and was built at the back of Centerville High School. The cost of the project was about $7.5 million.

In addition to the school's productions the facilities are also rented out for dance recitals, shows, concerts, and other performances. Some notable productions that have taken place in the Performing Arts Center are: Doyle Lawson, the Dayton Contemporary Dance Company, Jon Petz, Udit and Aditya Naryan, and Indian Idol's Aditi Paul.

The Centerville High School Theatre Department produces four main stage productions most school years. Through the 2007–2008 school year there were only three main stage productions. In 2008–2009 season a fall musical was added. In addition to the four main stage shows, the students produce four additional productions throughout the year. In December there is a student-produced play performed for K-1 elementary students, and during February the students perform a student produced play. In May the Advanced Acting and Directing class along with the Technical Theatre Tech-Prep class produce a full play. The season ends in May with the annual Extreme Theatre experience.

Centerville High School Theatre is affiliated with the International Thespian Society and is organized as Troupe #2204. New members are inducted into the Thespian Honor Society at the annual Theatre Banquet in May. In 2010 they were asked to perform their fall musical, Lucky Stiff, at the state conference in March. In 2011 they returned to the mainstage at the state conference with their production of The Dining Room by A.R. Gurney. In 2012 they also performed their fall musical "Urinetown" at the state conference.

In June 2012, the Fourth Annual High School DayTony Awards celebration was hosted by Jim Sagona and Sinclair Community College at Blair Hall. Forty-nine Awards of Excellence and eighty-three Awards of Merit were received by students from ten area schools. Centerville High School students received three Overall Production Awards, twenty-three Awards of Excellence, and twenty Awards of Merit.

The Centerville High School band program consists of the Wind Symphony, Symphonic Band and Concert Band. The after school program features the marching band, Centerville Jazz Band, the Winter Guard and Winter Percussion (indoor percussion ensemble), four jazz ensembles (Jazz I, Jazz II, Jazz III and the newly-introduced Jazz IIII), and the Basketball Pep Band (BBPB).

The orchestra program at Centerville High School consists of its Symphonic Orchestra, Concert Orchestra, the Chamber Orchestra (a small ensemble that breaks into smaller quartets to perform in the community), and an Alternative Strings program (which plays bluegrass, jazz, and Celtic music).

Centerville High School also has four choirs, known as Concert Choir, Women's Choir, Symphonic Choir, and Forte (an a cappella group). In addition there is an after school a cappella group, Novae.

X-treme Theatre is an annual event sponsored by the Centerville High School Theatre Department. The students must write, direct, design, act, and sing in an original theatre production. This event originated in 2007 and has continued annually. To prevent planning ahead a set of rules dictating specific items that must be included in the show are revealed twenty-four hours before the performance. These items may be characters, specific props, certain words, and various other requirements (such as a musical number). The event starts at 7:30pm on a Friday and the script or scripts are written overnight with production and casting beginning at 7:30am the next day. The performance begins that Saturday at 7:30pm. The show traditionally includes an improvisational component at the beginning of the show.