Dance Base Yokohama, operated by the Sega Sammy Foundation for Arts and Culture, received the “Mecenat Award” at the “Mecenat Award 2023” announced today.

https://www.mecenat.or.jp/ja/news/pressrelease/15784

■Reasons for receiving the award
The award was given in recognition of its challenge to develop and reform dance culture by providing artists with a place to create their works, planning experimental programs, and promoting interaction among diverse people as a dance house open to society.

DaBY is a dance house open to the community and lovers of culture and the arts for the purpose of creating performing arts works, especially dance. since opening in June 2020, DaBY has organized and managed workshops and experimental tryout performances, invited overseas artists and companies, and conducted dance Since its opening in June 2020, it has planned and operated workshops and experimental tryout performances, invited overseas artists and companies, and conducted archive projects, aiming to become a center of exchange not only for choreographers and dancers, but also for creators, critics, researchers, production staff, and audiences in various fields.
Please look forward to our future activities in the field of performing arts.

 

Mecenat Award
The “Mecenat Grand Prize” (renamed “Mecenat Award
” in 2004) was established in 1991 with the aim of enhancing corporate mecenat activities and increasing public interest in them. By 2022, 241 outstanding mecenat activities from all over Japan have been honored.
Mecenat Award” website: https://www.mecenat.or.jp/ja/mecenat_awards/mecenat_awards
“This is MECENAT” website: https://mecenat-mark.org/

■Corporate Mecenat Council
A private public interest law in which corporations and other organizations involved in culture participate and collaborate for the purpose of social creation through the promotion of art and culture.
It is a private public interest law that is joined by corporations and other cultural organizations to create a society through the promotion of arts and culture.
■Corporate Mecenat Association A public interest incorporated association that promotes arts and culture through the participation and cooperation of corporations and other cultural organizations.

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