Jonathan Burrows & Matteo Fargion

Jonathan Burrows and Matteo Fargion have been collaborating together since 1989, and their ongoing series of duets go on touring all around the world. The work is hard to place, combining intellectual rigour with unexpected humour, but it has its roots in a shared love of classical music, which they clash against an approach to performance that is at once open to audience but also anarchic and joyful. The two men have recently collaborated with video artist Hugo Glendinning on the year long online project 52 Portraits, which released a different gestural portrait of a dancer every Monday throughout 2016. Their most recent duet Body Not Fit For Purpose was a commission from the 2014 Venice Biennale, and in 2018 they began their Music For Lectures series, which invite speakers to give a talk on performance backed by a rock band.

Burrows' A Choreographer's Handbook has sold over 13,000 copies since its publication in 2010, and he is currently a Senior Research Fellow at the Centre for Dance Research, Coventry University. In 2017 Fargion composed the score for Mette Edvardsen's Oslo, and he has recently developed a series of international composition workshops for choreographers. Any Table Any Room opened at the Attenborough Centre Brighton in 2017 and is the duo's first piece to invite local artists in each location to join them onstage after a three day rehearsal period.


Jonathan Burrows and Matteo Fargion are co-produced by Kaaitheater Brussels, PACT Zollverein Essen, Sadler's Wells Theatre London and BIT Teatergarasjen Bergen.