Paul Baker

Paul Baker, who founded the Dallas Theater Center in 1959 and was the first principal of Booker T. Washington High School for the Performing and Visual Arts. He believed is the use of space in the arts. For example, you use space in the art of dance a lot of the time. The works space for dance has to be big enough for all of the dancers to have enough space to dance full out. If the dancers do not have enough space they will collide into each other and they will not be able to dance fully. Also the art of dance uses space by how the dancers move through the space. Space can also be involved with visual arts as well. Visual art has to be drawn on a canvas of some sort and the canvas can be considered a space that the artist is drawing on. Paul Baker also believed that the music can fill up a space by the volume of the sounds. The theater also uses space by having the actresses and actors by how they project to the audience. They also fill up the space by the props that they may use. Paul Baker considered all of these ideas when he worked as the principal at Booker T. Washington High School for the Performing and Visual Arts.  Paul Baker was a very influential person on the way the arts used space.