The Quiet Dance & The Unison Piece – Burrows & Fargion (UK)
Language: English
Age recommendation: From 10 years and up
Choreographer Jonathan Burrows and composer Matteo Fargion have collaborated for over 35 years and their duets continue to tour widely. The work is hard to place, combining intellectual rigour with unexpected humour, but it has its roots in a shared love of musical forms, which they clash against an approach to performance that is at once open to audience but also anarchic and joyful.
In Trondheim the two artists will share their most watched piece online The Quiet Dance (2005) which collides walking and vocal sound in a constantly surprising overlap of coincidences, followed by their most recent work The Unison Piece (2025), an investigation, critique and celebration of doing things together in time, performed at tables with two electric guitars.
Choreographer Jonathan Burrows and composer Matteo Fargion have been collaborating for over 35 years, creating an internationally acclaimed body of duet work including Both Sitting Duet (2002), The Quiet Dance (2005), Speaking Dance (2006), Cheap Lecture and The Cow Piece (2009), Body Not Fit For Purpose (2014), Rewriting (2021) and The Unison Piece (2025). Fargion has also written music for many other performance makers including Helga Arnalds, Claire Croizé, Siobhan Davies, Mette Edvardsen, Karl Jay Lewin and Andrea Spreafico. Burrows is the author of A Choreographer’s Handbook (Routledge, 2010/2025) and Writing Dance (Varamo Press, 2022), and is currently Associate Professor at the Centre for Dance Research Coventry University.
The performance is part of the Multiplié Dance Festival 2026 presented by DansiT
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Jonathan Burrows & Matteo Fargion