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Jonathan Burrows

Lives in London, England and Brussels, Belgium, England

Born 1960, Bishop Auckland, England

When I think about the work I'm involved in, it seems that each piece comes from a different perspective, but somehow arrives at the same questions. Why to dance? What is a performance? What else can it be? Should I know what I'm doing? What do I do when I don't know what I'm doing? Can a dance also show weakness? What is the love between dance and music? Am I asking questions that have already been asked? Can I accept the contradictions? Can I simplify all this?

1970-78 Studies at Royal Ballet School, London

1991 Independent choreographer and performer

1986-99 Performer, Rosemary Butcher Dance Company, London

1978-91 Soloist, The Royal Ballet, London

1999-2002 Visiting Member of Faculty, P.A.R.T.S., Brussels

1998-99 Artist in Residence, South Bank Centre, London

1992-2002 Associate Artist, Kunstencentrum Vooruit, Gent, Belgium

SELECTED WORKS

2002 Both Sitting Duet, collaboration with composer Matteo Fargion.

2001 Weak Dance Strong Questions, collaboration with theater director Jan Ritsema.

1998 Things I Don't Know, Kunstencentrum, Vooruit, Gent, Belgium.

1997 Quintet, The Place Theatre, London.

1996 The Stop Quartet, Kunstencentrum Vooruit, Gent, Belgium.

1994 Our, The Phoenix, Leicester, UK.

1992 Very, The Place Theatre, London.

1997 Walking/music, commissioned by William Forsythe for Ballett
Frankfurt, performed at Schauspielhuas, Frankfurt.

FILM COLLABORATIONS WITH DIRECTOR ADAM ROBERTS

2003 Both Sitting Duet and Singing.

1996 The Stop Quartet.

1995 Blue Yellow, performed by Sylvie Guillem, France 2/BBC

1995 Hands, ACE/BBC

1992 Our-film.

SELECTED AWARDS AND FELLOWSHIPS

2000-02 Arts Council of England Fellowship

1995 Prudential Award

1994 TimeOut Award

1992 Digital Dance Award

Year Awarded2002
CategoryDance
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