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Choreographer Jonathan Burrows and composer Matteo Fargion have collaborated for over 35 years, touring together across 35 countries worldwide. Their work is both rigorous and funny. It has its roots in a shared love of musical form, which they clash against an approach to
performance that is joyfully anarchic. In Hammerfest the two artists will share their most watched piece online The Quiet Dance (2005) which confuses what you see and what you hear in a constantly surprising overlap of coincidences, followed by their most recent work The Unison Piece (2025), an investigation and celebration of doing things together in time, performed at tables with two electric guitars.

Duration: 50 minutes (no interval)

Burrows & Fargion will also lead a workshop during the festival. The workshop is open to everyone, regardless of experience. Read more here.

Choreographer Jonathan Burrows and composer Matteo Fargion have been collaborating for over 35 years, creating an internationally acclaimed body of duet work including Both Sitting Duet (2002), The Quiet Dance (2005), Speaking Dance (2006), Cheap Lecture and The Cow Piece (2009), Body Not Fit For Purpose (2014), Rewriting (2021) and The Unison Piece (2025).

Fargion has also written music for many other performance makers including Helga Arnalds, Claire Croizé, Siobhan Davies, Mette Edvardsen, Karl Jay Lewin and Andrea Spreafico.

Burrows is the author of A Choreographer's Handbook (Routledge, 2010/2025) and Writing Dance (Varamo Press, 2022), and is currently Associate Professor at the Centre for Dance Research Coventry University.