A Choreographer's Handbook

A Choreographer's Handbook

<P>On choreography: "Choreography is a negotiation with the patterns your body is thinking"</P> <P></P> <P>On rules: "Try breaking the rules on a need to break the rules basis"</P> <P><EM>A Choreographer’s Handbook</EM> invites the reader to investigate how and why to make a dance performance. In an inspiring and unusually empowering sequence of stories, ideas and paradoxes, internationally renowned dancer, choreographer and teacher Jonathan Burrows explains how it’s possible to navigate a course through this complex process.</P> <P>It is a stunning reflection on a personal practice and professional journey, and draws upon five years’ of workshop discussions, led by Burrows.</P> <P>Burrows’ open and honest prose gives the reader access to a range of exercises, meditations, principles and ideas on choreography that allow artists and dance-makers to find their own aesthetic process.</P> <P>It is a book for anyone interested in making performance, at whatever level and in whichever style.</P>