“Come play! You’ll have a BALL!”
Jill Magnusen
Interim Executive Director
Dallas Arts District
.…on artist Kurt Perschke’s RedBall Dallas, via LinkedIn.
Starting Friday, June 19, a huge red ball will be bouncing, squishing, and people-bumping its way across 10 Dallas locations. Created by artist Kurt Perschke, this award-winning traveling public artwork has captivated audiences in 50 cities around the world over 25 years—and now it’s rolling into Dallas.
The free public art work is a 15-foot inflatable red sphere that moves daily through a city, appearing at publicly shared locations as it invites both planned and unexpected encounters in public space.
From June 19 to June 28, you can experience RedBall Dallas as it visits the AT&T Performing Arts Center’s Winspear Opera House, Klyde Warren Park, Nasher Sculpture Center, Dallas Museum of Art, Perot Museum of Nature and Science, Morton H. Meyerson Symphony Center, Downtown Dallas, Inc.‘s West End Square and Pacific Plaza, and Deep Ellum and the Bishop Arts District.
You can see the schedule of all these big-red-ball appearances by going here.
Since its inception in 2001, the RedBall Project has been performed in more than 50 cities worldwide in collaboration with festivals, cultural institutions, municipalities, and public art organizations, the project said. The performance travels from city to city connecting an audience’s experience on the street “into a continuous global story.”
Presenting sponsors for the public art events are Downtown Dallas, Inc., the City of Dallas Office of Arts and Culture, Texas Commission on the Arts, and HALL Arts Hotel.
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