Gran Teatro Nacional del Perú

This guide to the Gran Teatro Nacional del Peru in Lima traces the 44-year gap between the founding of Peru's national ballet company in 1967 and the day it finally got a home built for it. It follows dancer Kaye MacKinnon's Ballet Peruano through decades of borrowed community halls and rehearsals wherever a roof happened to be free, and the engineering choices that shaped this theater's hall specifically around sound before anything else. Stand here and notice how the curved walls and hanging chambers change what you hear.