12:00 - 3:00pm
October 31 - November 2, 2011
Monday - Wednesday
$75 Full Workshop, $30 Drop-In
Movement Research Avenue C Studio
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Choreographer Jonathan Burrows leads a three day workshop investigating choreographic and compositional process, performance and philosophies, questioning how a dance or performance might be made and what it could communicate to somebody watching. Practical work will concentrate on short task-based exercises looking at how to define material and work with time, to hold the attention of an audience and invite them to care what happens next. Sessions will be punctuated also with discussion and viewpoints on other mediums and ways of working, asking all the time what dance can do and what it can't.

Jonathan Burrows danced with the Royal Ballet for 13 years, before leaving to pursue his own choreography. After touring with his own company he decided in 2001 to concentrate on one to one collaborations with other artists, who would share the conception, making, performance and administration of the work. His duets include Weak Dance Strong Questions with Jan Ritsema (2001), Dogheart with Chrysa Parkinson (2009), and five pieces with the composer Matteo Fargion, beginning in 2002 with Both Sitting Duet, followed by The Quiet Dance (2005), Speaking Dance (2006), Cheap Lecture (2009) and The Cow Piece (2009). Burrows and Fargion have now given over 200 performances across 28 countries. In 2002 Burrows received an award from the Foundation for Contemporary Performance Arts New York, Both Sitting Duet won a 2004 New York ‘Bessie’ and Cheap Lecture was chosen for the 2009 Het Theaterfestival in Belgium. Other high profile commissions include Sylvie Guillem and William Forsythe’s Ballet Frankfurt. Burrows is an associate artist at Kaaitheater Brussels, a visiting member of faculty at P.A.R.T.S Brussels, and Visiting Professor at Royal Holloway, University Of London, Hamburg University and the Free University Berlin. He holds an Honorary Doctorate from Royal Holloway University of London. A Choreographer's Handbook (2010) by Jonathan Burrows is available from Routledge Publishing.