JONATHAN BURROWS /// London Articulating Dance 20 – 24 AUG /// 13 – 18 h /// English /// 125 EUR Choreographer Jonathan Burrows leads a one-week intensive mentoring course, focusing on the process and practicalities of dance making. The aim is to allow choreographers the opportunity to reflect on their own practice, and focus on what is at the heart of their work and how best to access their particular energy and clarity of purpose. Personal investigation will be balanced throughout by more open discussions, during which people will be encouraged to remember fundamental things about why they started to dance, perform and choreograph in the first place. New thoughts should resonate onwards and enrich future performances and projects. Artists from all dance forms are welcome. Participants should have good experience of creating work (not open to students), enough to feel ready to ask themselves hard questions and discuss their answers in a group situation. Please send a one-paragraph description of relevant previous work and interests. Der Mentoring-Kurs von Jonathan Burrows richtet sich an erfahrene Choreografen und beschäftigt sich eingehend mit dem Prozess und der Praxis kreativen Tanzschaffens. Neben der Erörterung der individuellen Praxiserfahrung finden offenere Diskussionen über ein weiter gefasstes Themenspektrum zu Tanz und Performance statt. Jonathan Burrows is a visiting member of faculty at P.A.R.T.S. and Visiting Professor at the Theatre Department of Royal Holloway, University of London. He collaborated with William Forsythe‘s Ballett Frankfurt, and memorably recently with theatre director Jan Ritsema on “Weak Dance Strong Questions” (2000). For the past four years he has been working on a trilogy of duets with composer Matteo Fargion, beginning with “Both Sitting Duet” (2002), followed by “The Quiet Dance” (2005) and “Speaking Dance” (2006). With “Both Sitting Duet” he received the New York Dance and Performance “Bessie” Award in 2004.