Jonathan Burrows & Adrian Heathfield
Coaching Project: Creative Writing & Dance

"Creative Writing & Dance" Choreographer Jonathan Burrows and writer and curator Adrian Heathfield lead a five day intensive workshop questioning the relation of movement to language and looking at ways text can be used in dance performance. The workshop is open to anyone with experience of making or performing; work will involve both discussion and practical investigation of creative tasks, principles of performance composition and experiments with relations between words and bodies. Jonathan Burrows Jonathan Burrows is a former Royal Ballet soloist and now internationally acclaimed choreographer. He has made work for William Forsythe's Ballett Frankfurt and recent pieces "Weak Dance Strong Questions" and "Both Sitting Duet" have toured to 14 and 17 countries respectively. His new piece, "The Quiet Dance", made in collaboration with composer Matteo Fargion, opened in Munich in August 2005 and is currently touring internationally. In 2002 he was given an award by the New York Foundation for Contemporary Arts in recognition of his contributions to contemporary dance and "Both Sitting Duet" was the winner of a 2004 New York Dance and Performance "Bessie" Award. Jonathan is a visiting member of faculty at P.A.R.T.S., and is also Visiting Professor at the Theatre Department of Royal Holloway, University of London. Adrian Heathfield Adrian Heathfield is a writer and curator working across the scenes of live art, performance and dance. He is best known for his essays and books including "Live: Art and Performance, Small Acts and Shattered Anatomies". He co-curated the "Live Culture" events at Tate Modern. Over the last eight years Heathfield has created a series of dialogue performances with a range of writers and artists. He has taught performance workshops internationally with Tim Etchells of Forced Entertainment, Goat Island, Lloyd Newson of DV8 and Jonathan Burrows. He is Professor of Performance and Visual Culture at Roehampton University, London.