Workshop: This then that med Jonathan Burrows & Matteo Fargion

Composer Matteo Fargion and choreographer Jonathan Burrows share a day long workshop looking at questions of how to balance the many and overlapping elements at play in the making of a performance, including concept, context, image, form, dramaturgy, materials and daily practice. The workshop will be a mixture of practical work and discussion, with the aim of allowing each person to re-examine how they approach their own work. The mornings will be facilitated by Fargion with a focus on composition, and Burrows will lead the afternoon concentrating more on dramaturgy and performance.

This workshop is in collaboration with nyMusikk Trondheim and PRODA, and is part of Multiplié Dance Festival 2026

About the artists

Choreographer Jonathan Burrows and composer Matteo Fargion have been working together for many years, creating an internationally acclaimed body of duet work. Fargion has also written music for, and performed with, many other performance makers including Siobhan Davies, Claire Croizé, Andrea Spreafico, Mette Edvardsen, Karl Jay Lewin and Helga Arnalds. Burrows is the author of A Choreographer’s Handbook (Routledge, 2010/2024) and Writing Dance (Varamo Press, 2022), and is currently Associate Professor at the Centre for Dance Research Coventry University.