Choreographer's Handbook

<p>On choreography: ‘Choreography is a negotiation with the patterns your body is thinking.’</p><p>On rules: ‘Try breaking the rules on a need to break the rules basis.’</p><p>The updated and revised edition of '<i>A Choreographer’s Handbook' </i>invites the reader to investigate how and why to make a dance performance. In an inspiring and unusually empowering sequence of stories questions ideas and paradoxes internationally renowned choreographer 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 many years of workshop discussions led by Burrows.</p><p>Burrows’ open and honest prose gives the reader access to a range of principles exercises meditations 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>