Thursday, January 27, 2022

Geijutsu Geki-Jo 

Yokosuka City hosts a world-class performance venue ... For opera or symphonies or other stage performances...


The Yokosuka arts theatre is in the complex institution called The Bay Side Square Yokosuka. 

It opened in February 1994, after decade of its conception. 

There is the Yokosuka art theater other than, office, a hotel, shops, gathering residences in this institution.

The Yokosuka arts theatre, with 1,806seats, is designed as opera house. It is a horseshoe in plan with four layers of high balconies. 

The small hall called “The Bay Side Pocket” is designed for multipurpose space, having capacity of 600seats, can be used as a flat level floor for a variety of performances. 

Yokosuka-City is at the center of Miura Peninsula and there is the distance of about 50 km from Tokyo.  The site for The Bay Side Square Yokosuka was the former site of the EM Club (Enlisted Men’s Club) which was a U.S. Navy personnel meeting place at one time. 

The plot was returned from U.S. in 1983. 

The EM club was the birthplace of  jazz music in Japan during the postwar years, as that music was performed in the EM club, and various concert were carried out. 

Such jazz performances were supporting the development of the music world of Japan.




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