A Choreographer'S Handbook Av Jonathan Burrows

<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>