Dayton Performing Arts Alliance: A Collaboration of Minds, Businesses, and Artistic Visions

Dayton Performing Arts Alliance: A Collaboration of Minds, Businesses, and Artistic Visions PR Newswire DAYTON, Ohio, July 9, 2012 DAYTON, Ohio, July 9, 2012 /PRNewswire/ -- Following more than two years of due diligence, analysis, and planning the Dayton Ballet, Dayton Opera, and Dayton Philharmonic Orchestra— Dayton's three classical performing arts organizations — became a new, single entity on July 1, 2012: the Dayton Performing Arts Alliance. While the organizations are now a single entity, the three performing arts units will continue the process of merging organizations, operationally. Video news release here. "It took great foresight, courage, and leadership to engage in the complex due diligence process and pursue a common vision. We are thrilled with what this first-in-the-nation merger will mean for Greater Dayton," Mike Parks, President of The Dayton Foundation, said. "The Dayton Ballet, Opera, and Philharmonic are integral to the cultural health of our community, and this merger, this act of renewal, energizes our culture for generations to come." The Dayton Daily News called the merger, "…a new day for arts in Dayton." The organizations participated in a sound and thorough due diligence process in their approach to the merger: In late 2010, the executive directors of the three organizations and their respective board Chairs met to determine if there was interest in creating one entity that would be stronger than the three separate organizations.