Patravadi Theatre is hosting "The Final BOW", an evening of dance, live music and film from around the world at its Theatre-in-the-Garden on Sat, Jan 16 at 7:30pm.

The evening is part of the BOW Project, a cross-cultural collaboration of five artists from Asia and Europe. They are film/dance artist Rannva Karadottir from Denmark, dancer/choreographers Cathy Seago from the UK, Shi Jing Xin from China, Mei-Yin Ng from Malaysia and composer/musician Emmanuel Baily from Belgium.

The five 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 Final BOW" will conclude the artists' three-week residency in Thailand and each of them will bring from home a piece of work to be presented in a mixed bill in the first half of the programme. The five shows include:

- Memotech, the latest dance short-film by Rannva, a Faroese visual dance artist based in Copenhagen and London. She has been working in England, Germany, Canada, Denmark and her Faroe Islands home, with projects to date including stage works, dance-film, improvised performances, site specific pieces and integrated video installations.

- Concept excerpts from DUOD, a dance performance by Cathy, a new lecturer in choreography and dance at the University of Winchester. She is also the director of the interdisciplinary dance company Evolving Motion, receiving awards in support of choreographic research and performance in the UK, the US and Southeast Asia since 1998. Her recent works have toured in the South East of England and London, Edinburgh, Paris, Taiwan and Singapore.

- Xia Xie Bo Wa-White (A Dance for the God), a dance performance and video by Chinese choreographer Shi who, during her study, participated in local theatrical performances, ballets, operas, drama, concerts and other art forms in different attempts at innovation. Shi is also one of the dance director of the Beijing 2008 Olympic Games opening ceremony.

* Cinderella Toe Jam, a dance show by Malaysia-born New York-based Mei, founder of Mei-Be WHATever which has presented work at festivals, museums and theatres around the US and internationally.

- Choral III Variations, a musical piece by Belgian musician Emmanuel, who works as a composer, improviser, performer and teacher with a range of genres and musical groups in Leige, Brussels. He plays regular concerts with groups which include Adam's Dream, Bathyscaphe II, Bay Lee Quartet and his own group Wang Wei Quartet which he founded in 2006 and which did integrate Cambodian hip-hop dancer Yiphun Chiem in late 2008. Emmanuel's work focuses on building a bridge to unite ancient western music with the infinite subtleties of movement within the Chinese poetic languages.

The second half of the programme will feature the premiere of a newly-created piece BOW by all participating artists during their residency in Thailand.

BOW is 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 through the wide range of cultures and practices represented.

During the evening, the documentary Amazing Grace made by Ans Kanen and Han de Bruin during the Pointe to Point: 5th Asia Europe Dance Forum will also be on show.

Tickets cost 300 baht (100 baht for students) and can be purchased from Total Reservation outlet (tel 02-833-5555 or visit http://www.totalreservation.com). For more information about the BOW Project, visit http://www.bowproject.wordpress.com or call 02-412-7287.