PETER, dance with Jonathan Burrows

Today we danced with Jonathan Burrows. To follow Jonathan’s artistic work go to burrowsfargion.com and for his academic work go to pureportal.coventry.ac.uk/en/persons/jonathan-burrows. To watch full length videos of Burrows and Fargion's work go to vimeo.com/burrowsfargion.

Jonathan Burrows danced for 13 years with the Royal Ballet in London, during which time he also began performing regularly with experimental choreographer Rosemary Butcher. He has since created an internationally acclaimed body of performance work including ‘The Stop Quartet’ (1996), ‘Weak Dance Strong Questions’ with Jan Ritsema (2001), and his long series of collaborations with composer Matteo Fargion 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), ‘Rewriting’ (2021) and 'The Unison Piece' (2025). Burrows is a founder visiting member of faculty at P.A.R.T.S Belgium and has for many years been a regular collaborator for Jonzi D’s Back To The Lab hip hop theatre mentoring project at Breakin’ Convention, Sadler’s Wells London. He is the author of 'A Choreographer's Handbook' (Routledge) and ‘Writing Dance’ (Varamo Press, 2022), and is currently Associate Professor at the Centre for Dance Research, Coventry University.

References: stillpeter.wordpress.com/wp-content/uploads/2025/11/peter-dance-with-jonathan-burrows-refferences-and-transcript.pdf

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