Both Sitting Duet & Body Not Fit For Purpose
Jonathan Burrows & Matteo Fargion
Situated somewhere between dance, music, live art and comedy, the work of choreographer Jonathan Burrows and composer Matteo Fargion is intellectually provocative and delightful. Over the past twelve years the two artists have built a body of duets which mix the formality of classical music composition with an open and often anarchic approach to performance and audiences, bringing them an international following.
BOTH SITTING DUET was the piece that made their reputation back in 2002, setting the tone for an original mix of humour and fierce intelligence that marks out what they do. In Melbourne, they will follow it with their newest performance BODY NOT FIT FOR PURPOSE, a commission from the 2014 Venice Biennale which clashes politics against the empty joy of dancing, unravelling the link between meaning and action and raising questions in the midst of our laughter.
