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Pavilion Dance’s adult contemporary dance company, Co Evo delighted the theatre audience for RONiN with their curtain raiser performance, choreographed by Japanese artist, Yukiko Masui.

Ahead of new show RONiN, a spectacular visual feast of dance, martial arts, animation, projection and moving imagery that came to Bournemouth this Summer, Co Evo worked with show creator Yukiko to create a short ’samurai’ inspired piece to open the show.

Inspired by the story of the first female samurai, Co Evo worked with large bamboo sticks to recreate a martial arts inspired piece. Yukiko created the choreography and worked with Co Evo Artistic Director, Claire Benson and 10 of the company dancers to create a short show outdoors to give the audience a flavour of what was to come.

About Co Evo

Co Evo is our Adult Contemporary Dance Company, led by Artistic Director Claire Benson. They meet every Tuesday 19:30 for a 2 hour session to develop performances and often work with local and visiting artists to create new pieces. They’ve performed at Russell Cotes Museum in the outdoor gardens, at our Summer Festival as well as many Revues in the Pavilion Dance Ocean Theatre.

Upcoming performances and workshops

They will be performing at the Arts University Bournemouth Festival of Creativity (4-5 July) and at BourneFree Pride on Sat 11 July on the main stage and community stage. During the Summer there will also be a series of 4 intensive workshops for past, present and future Co Evo members. Sessions will be led by Claire Benson, Katie Neal, Ian Dolan and Jazz Gritt in August and September ahead of the next auditions. There is a one off fee of £52 for all 4 workshops.

More details: https://www.pdsw.org.uk/co-evo-summer-intensive/

Auditions

Auditions are held once a year with next auditions coming up on Tuesday 8th September, 19:30 at Pavilion Dance.