Performace: The Unison Piece by Jonathan Burrows & Matteo Fargion

Duration: 30 minutes.

Choreographer Jonathan Burrows and composer Matteo Fargion have been collaborating for over 30 years, creating an internationally acclaimed body of duet work including ‘Both Sitting Duet’ (2002), ‘The Quiet Dance’ (2005), ‘Speaking Dance’ (2006), ‘Cheap Lecture’ (2009), ‘The Cow Piece’ (2009), ‘Body Not Fit For Purpose’ (2014) and ‘Rewriting’ (2021). Fargion has also written music for, and performed with, many other performance makers including Siobhan Davies, Claire Croizé, Andrea Spreafico, Mette Edvardsen, Karl Jay Lewin and Helga Arnalds. Burrows is the author of A Choreographer's Handbook (Routledge, 2010) and Writing Dance (Varamo Press, 2022), and is currently Associate Professor at the Centre for Dance Research Coventry University.

This event is organized in collaboration with Bøler samvirkelag (www.bølersamvirkelag.no). Special thanks to Dansens Hus.



Book launch: A Choregrapher’s Handbook, second edition 2025 by Jonathan Burrows

The updated and revised edition of 'A Choreographer’s Handbook' (first published in 2010) invites the reader to investigate how and why to make a dance performance. In an inspiring and unusually empowering sequence of stories, questions, ideas and paradoxes, internationally renowned choreographer Jonathan Burrows explains how it’s possible to navigate a course through this complex process.
It is a book for anyone interested in making performance, at whatever level and in whichever style.

Presentation and conversation.