Photo: Alastair Muir
This performance is presented as part of the TOWARDS:2026 workshop cycle, made possible through the support of the Swedish Arts Council and the Västra Götaland Region.
05.09
jonathan burrows (UK) & matteo fargion (UK/IT): the quiet dance (2005) & the unison piece (2025)
Having collaborated for over 35 years Burrows and Fargion duets continue to tour widely. The work is hard to place, combining intellectual rigour with unexpected humour, but it has its roots in a shared love of musical forms, which they clash against an approach to performance that is at once open to the audience but also anarchic and joyful.
Jonathan Burrows & Matteo Fargion bring together two acclaimed works.
This is a rare opportunity to experience two remarkable works created twenty years apart, offering a unique perspective on the continuity and evolution of one of most influential artistic collaborations in contemporary dance and choreography field.
About the artists
Choreographer Jonathan Burrows and composer Matteo Fargion have been collaborating for over 35 years, creating an internationally acclaimed body of duet work including “Both Sitting Duet” (2002), “The Quiet Dance” (2005), “Speaking Dance” (2006), “Cheap Lecture and The Cow Piece” (2009), “Body Not Fit For Purpose “(2014), “Rewriting“ (2021) and “The Unison Piece” (2025).
Their work is hard to place, combining intellectual rigour with unexpected humour, but it has its roots in a shared love of compositional forms and an approach to performance that is both anarchic and joyful. Fargion has also written music for many other performance makers including Helga Arnalds, Claire Croizé, Siobhan Davies, Mette Edvardsen, Karl Jay Lewin and Andrea Spreafico. Burrows is the author of A Choreographer’s Handbook (Routledge, 2010/2025) and Writing Dance (Varamo Press, 2022), and is currently Associate Professor at the Centre for Dance Research Coventry University.
Read more about the artists:
burrowsfargion.com
TOWARDS:2026 is a cycle of intensive workshops by Vitlycke – Centre for Performing Arts, combining physical practice, lectures, screenings and live performances.