Performance and Exhibition Spaces

From state-of-the-art recording studios and animation labs to black box theaters and expansive performances spaces, the campus is thrumming with potential for artistic innovation. 

Visual artists in every year have access to studios, while filmmakers can work with professional-grade equipment and sound stages. The open, collaborative environment encourages cross-disciplinary projects, allowing students from different artistic backgrounds to come together and create. Whether you’re rehearsing in a performance space, building a set, or developing a new media project, CalArts boasts an inimitable setting in which students can thrive.

Each school at CalArts maintains labs, rehearsal rooms, and studio space to facilitate all the stages of making art. See more of what is available to students at CalArts:

• Art facilities
• Critical Studies facilities
• Dance facilities
• Film/Video facilities
• Music facilities
• Theater facilities

Main Gallery

The Main Gallery is the central hub of the Institute, the figurative center of campus. Exhibitions, performances, the Halloween Party, internship and career fairs, and much more take place in this large space at the heart of CalArts.

MOD Theater

The MOD, or the Walt Disney Modular Theater, is a completely customizable theater space. Comprising 4’x4’ sections which can be incrementally raised and lowered, the inner walls are also composed of removable panels, allowing for infinite reconfiguration and limitless design possibilities.

Wild Beast

The Wild Beast, an indoor-outdoor music pavilion, offers flexible performance and rehearsal space for The Herb Alpert School of Music at CalArts, seating 100 indoors and more than 750 in its open-air configuration.

Lund Theater

The Sharon Disney Lund Dance Theater is used exclusively for dance performances, rehearsals and classes. It features state-of-the-art wall-to-wall L’Air sprung flooring, covered with seamless black Lonstage. Retractable theater seating allows for many different staging configurations.

The Bijou

The Bijou is CalArts’ on-campus cinema. Projection capability includes digital cinema, 35 mm, and 16 mm film. It is also used to host screenings and presentations from visiting artists, filmmakers, and alumni.

Roy O. Disney Concert Hall (ROD)

Outfitted with adaptable acoustics, lighting, and sound, the ROD is an ideal space for recitals, concerts, and multimedia and experimental presentations. The hall also doubles as a live recording room.

Animation A-Block

This newly remodeled space for our animation programs features classrooms, labs, and stations for each student, and stands ready for students to make art and films that will become part of CalArts’ grand legacy.

REDCAT

CalArts’ downtown center for contemporary arts is a multidisciplinary center for innovative visual, performing, and media arts. Founded by CalArts, REDCAT is located in the Walt Disney Concert Hall complex in downtown Los Angeles.