Jonathan Burrows/Matteo Fargion
January 9 2020
Choreographer Jonathan Burrows and composer Matteo Fargion have collaborated for 30 years on a series of overlapping performance works. In Any Table Any Room they invite artists to join them on stage in each new city, reimagining the relationship between dance, music and performance.
Any Table Any Room, Jonathan Burrows/Matteo Fargion, photo Gianluca di Ioia, 2019
Burrows’ A Choreographer’s Handbook (2010) has sold 14,000 copies internationally; he is currently a Senior Research Fellow at the Centre for Dance Research, Coventry University. Fargion recently wrote music and performed in other major projects including Oslo and the Kunsten festival des arts commission Penelope Sleeps by Mette Edvardsen, Flowers (We Are) by Claire Croizé, and We have to dress gorgeously by Andrea Spreafico.
"The problem with the domestic objects is there was always the question Why are you using a hairbrush? Why are you using a soap dish? We came to the idea that we would use clay to make a very poor replica of the hairbrush and a very poor replica of the soap dish."
