North Carolina Dance Theatre Gala Tonight

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The North Carolina Dance Theatre just finished up its perennial run of Nutcracker performances, and it will be opening its new Patricia McBride & Jean-Pierre Bonnefoux Center for Dance on Tryon Street, just uptown from the Knight Theater, later this year.


The Dance Theater gala comes on the heels of the January 2 opening of Charlotte's new Bechtler Museum of Modern Art (photos here and here), part of the Wells Fargo Cultural Campus. This two-block-long strip on South Tryon Street includes the Harvey B. Gantt Center for African-American Arts+Culture and the Mint Museum uptown expansion, which is set to open in October. 

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