Jonathan Burrows danced for 13 years with the Royal Ballet in London, during which time he also began performing regularly with experimental choreographer Rosemary Butcher. He has since created an internationally acclaimed body of performance work, including The Stop Quartet (1996) and Weak Dance Strong Questions (with Jan Ritsema, 2001), as well as his long series of collaborations with composer Matteo Fargion, including Both Sitting Duet (2002), The Quiet Dance (2005), Speaking Dance (2006), Cheap Lecture (2009), The Cow Piece (2009), Body Not Fit For Purpose (2014) and Rewriting (2021).
Jonathan is a founding visiting member of faculty at P.A.R.T.S. in Belgium and has, for many years, been a regular collaborator on Jonzi D's Back To The Lab HipHop theatre mentoring project at Breakin' Convention, Sadler's Wells, London. He is the author of A Choreographer's Handbook (Routledge, 2010, 2nd edition 2024) and Writing Dance (Varamo, 2022) and is currently Associate Professor at the Centre for Dance Research, Coventry University.
