What is PARC?
PARC, the Performing Arts Research Coalition, provides an historic opportunity for five national service organizations—the American Symphony Orchestra League, the Association of Performing Arts Presenters, Dance/USA, OPERA America, and Theatre Communications Group—to work together in an unprecedented three-year project to strengthen the research capacity of the performing arts and to measure the level of participation in and support for the arts in 10 communities across the country: the state of Alaska (Anchorage, Fairbanks, Juneau), and Cincinnati, Denver, Pittsburgh, Seattle, Austin, Boston, Minneapolis-St. Paul, Sarasota, and Washington, D.C.