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To establish a national centre for the preservation and promotion of India's rich legacy of classical, traditional and contemporary performing and visual arts. |
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To establish, equip and maintain schools, auditoriums, libraries, archives, museums, studios, workshops and other facilities necessary to fulfil the above objectives. |
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To disseminate knowledge, promote appreciation, provide training and sponsor or undertake scientific research in these fields with the objective of further development by encouragement of innovation within India and by interaction with the arts of other countries. |
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The NCPA complex is built on an eight-acre plot of land reclaimed from the sea in the Nariman Point area of the city. The complex has a plethora of structures and facilities that support performing arts. Among them are the 1,150-seat Jamshed Bhabha Theatre with state-of-the-art stagecraft and engineering suitable for staging Western operas and ballets, a 1,010-seat Tata Theatre, with special acoustics of short duration reverberation time and an innovative, fan-shaped auditorium, a 300-seat experimental theatre is an innovative space that enables full flexibility for production design and presentation, a 200-seat dance academy theatre, an 114-seat, multipurpose recording auditorium, art gallery, centre for photography as an art form, visual arts centre, creative arts centre, crafts revival and research centre, music and dance practice rooms, reading and listening libraries and studio for archival documentation of dance, drama and music.
The NCPA has a membership of nearly 5,000, constituting mainly students, professionals and lovers of art. It presents 40 to 50 events in its various spaces every month. Nearly half of these are free for members.
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