表演艺术中心位于大理苍山与洱海之间。建筑轻柔漂浮的屋顶受到了当地自然的启发，宛若苍山映于洱海的倒影，呼应着周围连绵的地形，吸引着游客的来访。表演艺术中心最初的构想主要是源于对当地自然气候环境和由此孕育出的特定文化以及当地人的生存智慧的感悟，它所做的最大努力，就是试图颠覆人们以往的剧场认知，创造一种全新的剧场观念，一种新的剧场经验。

The Performing Arts Center is located between Cangshan Mountain and Erhai Lake in Dali.Inspired by the powerful surrounding landscape, Zhu Pei searched for landscape related references to solve the architectonic challenges for the Performing Arts Center.The original idea of the Performing Arts Center is mainly derived from our perception of the local natural climate environment and the specific culture nurtured from it, as well as the survival wisdom of the locals,Its greatest effort is to try to subvert people's cognition of theater and create a new theater concept and a new theater experience.