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DBM network facilitates communication and exchange among artists, art professionals and organisations of the region and the development of projects that enhance artistic exchange and collaboration within the region and between the region with the rest of the world. DBM also support by different means, member-based projects that share the values of the network.
DBM ( Danse Bassin Méditerranée AISBL) is an international organisation and network of artists, art professionals and organisations existing since 1998. Over the past 15 years, a vast number of projects were realised under the leadership of DBM.
Among other projects, DBM network has supported the creation and distribution of dozens of contemporary dance productions, training initiatives and seminars, facilitated the organisation of contemporary dance festivals and regional platforms and, above all, the meeting of hundreds of artists and art professionals of the region in a series of small and larger international DBM meetings that took place in Casablanca / Morocco (2001), Thessaloniki / Greece (2002); Lisbon / Portugal (2002), Amman / Jordan (2003, cancelled only a few days before its realization because of the outbreak of Gulf War II), Cagliari / Italy (2003); Tunis / Tunisia (2004), Gerona / Spain (2004), Istanbul /Turkey (2007), Beirut / Lebanon (2007), Barcelona / Spain (2008), El Jadida / Morocco (2008) and Istanbul / Turkey (2010).
In 2005-2006 and 2011-2012, DBM passed through several structural changes that were considered deeply necessary by its members. A new organisational structure and a series of activities are being designed aimed to take advantage of the know-how already achieved in the past within the frame of the DBM network.
Since 2013, DBM Central Coordination office is based in Berlin working in close collaboration with DBM regional antennas spread all over the Mediterranean Region.