mountain view center for the performing arts

Description

Mountain View Center for the Performing Arts isn’t just a place to watch other people, it’s a place to create art yourself. Whether it be singing in community choruses, playing in small ensembles and symphonies, or dancing with ballet schools and folkloric groups, every season sees numerous shows by local artists contributing to the community in their own way.

An entire generation of performers has learned to act, sing, dance, and play for an audience on the Center’s three stages, thanks to the work of local schools and organizations like Peninsula Youth Theatre, Pacific Ballet, Western Ballet, Oriki Theatre, and Quadre-the Voice of Four Horns. These groups’ work will live on in those young performers’ hearts, whether their art becomes a career or an avocation. Who knows how many careers in the arts have been launched by these companies, or by TheatreWorks Silicon Valley's New Works and Young Playwrights Initiatives? Tony Award-winning Broadway musical Memphis (first performed here at the Center) and TheatreWorks' regional Theater Tony Award are perhaps the most visible successes of those programs, but it isn’t alone, and I’m sure it won’t be the last. As reacent as April 2022 we hosted the Grammy-Award Winning Taylor Eigsti.

What will the future years bring? More new plays! More new music! More new ideas! And more young artists sharing, growing and creating the art that will keep Mountain View vibrant and alive!