Asian –European Artists Gather at Patravadi Theatre

The BOW Project Celebrates Contemporary Dance, Film and Music From Around the World


The BOW Project artists from Faroe Islands, United Kingdom, New York, Malaysia, Belgium and Beijing will bring together “The Final BOW” an evening of dance, film and music from around the world on 16 January 2010 at Patravadi Theatre.

The BOW Project is a cross-cultural collaboration of five artists from Asia and Europe. They are film/dance artist Rannvá Káradóttir ( Denmark), dancer/choreographers Cathy Seago (UK), Shi Jing Xin (China), Mei-Yin Ng (Malaysia) and composer/musician Emmanuel Bally (Belgium), who first met in 2007 in Beijing during the cross cultural exchange project Pointe-to-point. The BOW Project is about exchanging and renewing ideas about movement, from within their own and other cultures. The artists will produce a live performance event “The Final Bow” at Patravadi Theatre and a short film which will go on to be shown at Festivals to international audiences during 2010.

An evening to conclude their three-week residency in Thailand, in“The Final BOW”, the five artists will bring from home a piece of work to be presented in a mixed bill in the first half of the program. In the second half of the program, the artists will present the creation a new performance “BOW” which is the product of their residency. “BOW” is an intertextual dance and music performance where the artists move across genres to connect through a collective performance. Also will be shown during the evening is a documentary “Amazing Grace” made by Ans Kanen and Han de Bruin during Pointe to Point 5th Asia Europe Dance Forum.

Workshops on dance, music and film will also be conducted by the artists during their residency at Patravadi Theatre. Please contact the theatre by email patravaditheatre@gmail.com or call 024127287 for details.

The BOW project is supported by the Asia Europe Foundation as a follow project of the 5th Asia Europe Dance Forum.

EVENT: “The Final BOW” an evening of dance, live music and film from around the world.
DATE/TIME: 16 Jan 2010 (Sat) 7:30pm
VENUE: Theatre-in-the-Garden, Patravadi Theatre
TICKETS: 300B. 100B (Student)

Tickets are now available at Total Reservation, the public can contact www.totalreservation.com or hotline 02-833-5555 to book the tickets. Total Reservation branches: Siam Paragon, Emporium, IMPACT Muang Thong Thani, BTS Mo Chit, BTS Victory Monument, The Mall: Bangkae, Bangkapi, Thapra, Ramkhamhaeng, Ngamwongwan.

Visit www.patravaditheatre.com, www.bowproject.wordpress.com for more information on The BOW Project.
Press inquiry:
Toby To (International Programme Director, Patravadi Theatre)
patravaditheatre@gmail.com 02412 7287-8 (Tel) 08 9153 0682 (mobile)
PROGRAMME of “The Final BOW”

With works from Faroe Islands, United Kingdom, New York, Malaysia, Belgium and Beijing we present a program of dance, film and music from around the world. The five artists have brought from home a piece of work which is presented here in Patravadi Theatre in a mixed bill in the first half of the programme. In the second half of the programme, a newly-created piece BOW by all participating artists during their residency in Thailand will be premiered.
1. Rannvá Káradóttir ( Denmark)
Title: Memotech / Memotekið - 5.58 min.
Media: Dance film
2. Cathy Seago (UK)
Title: Concept excerpts from DUOD
Media: Dance performance
3. Shi Jing Xin (China)

Title:Xia Xie Bo Wa-White/A dance for the God - 8.min (excerpt of “Peace plan into Tibet” 2009)?Media: Dance performance and Video
4. Mei-Yin Ng (Malaysia)
Title: Cinderella Toe Jam
Media: Dance
5. Emmanuel Bally (Belgium)
Title: choral III variations ?Media: Music
--- INTERVAL 15.MIN ---
6. Title: BOW
Devised, Developed and Performed by: Cathy Seago, Shi Jing Xin, Mei-Yin NG
Music by: Emmanuel Baily and the Wang Wei Quartet
Film: Rannva Karadottir

An intertextual dance and music performance where the artists move across genres and connect through a collective performance, gathering their individual experience of this journey though the wide range of cultures and practices represented.

• During the evening the documentary Amazing Grace, made by Ans Kanen and Jan de Bruin during Pointe to Point 5th Asia Europe Dance Forum will be shown.