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Jonathan Burrows
Jonathan Burrows inizia la carriera nel Royal Ballet di Londra, per poi fondare nel 1988 la propria compagnia Jonathan Burrows Group. Da allora ha viaggiato in lungo e in largo guadagnandosi un prestigio internazionale con lavori come Stoics (1991), Very (1992), Our (1994), The Stop Quartet (1996) and Things I Don’t Know (1997). Nel 2001 ha presentato Weak Dance Strong Questions frutto di una collaborazione con Jan Ritsema, direttore del Dutch theatre, a cui ha fatto seguito nel 2002 Both Sitting Duet. Entrambe i lavori sono stati presentati in Europa, Brasile, Canada, Giappone e USA. Tra le collaborazioni più prestigiose: Sylvie Guillem che esegue una sua coreografia nel film di Adam Robert Blue Yellow, e l'invito a creare le coreografie per il William Forsythe's Ballet Frankfurt. E' stato associated artist del Kunstencentrum Vooruit di Gent in Belgio dal 1992 al 2002 e artist in residence del South Bank Centre di Londra nel 1998/9. Nel 2002 Jonathan è stato premiato dalla Foundation for Contemporary Performance Arts di New York. Vive a Londra.
Jonathan Burrows, British choreographer and performer, danced with the Royal Ballet for 13 years, rising to the rank of soloist before leaving in 1991 to pursue his own choreography. After touring with his own company for some years, in 2001 he decided to concentrate on individual collaborations with other artists, who would share the conception, making, performing and administrating of the work. His first was Weak Dance Strong Questions (2001), made with the theatre maker and performer Jan Ritsema, which toured to 14 countries. This was followed by a series of duets with Matteo Fargion, Both Sitting Duet (2002), followed by The Quiet Dance (2005), Speaking Dance (2006), Cheap Lecture (2009) and The Cow Piece (2009). In 2010 he also made Dogheart, with the dancer Chrysa Parkinson. Other high profile commissions include Sylvie Guillem and William Forsythe’s Ballet Frankfurt, and in 2008 he was associate director for Peter Handke's The Hour We Knew Nothing Of Each Other at the National Theatre, London. Burrows has been an associate artist at Kunstencentrum Vooruit in Gent, Belgium (1992-2002), London’s South Bank Centre (1998-9) and Kaaitheater Brussels (2008). He is a visiting member of faculty at P.A.R.T.S, and is also 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.