Concept & Performance: Jonathan Burrows & Matteo Fargion

Burrows and Fargion describe what they do as »handmade and human-scale«. They build with simple, non-spectacular elements but arrive often at a deceptive virtuosity, radiating delight even as it makes the audience think. Over the past ten years the two artists have built a body of duets which juxtapose the formality of music composition with a radical and open approach to performance and audiences. »Cheap Lecture« and »The Cow Piece« are a conversation with the structure of John Cage's Lecture On Nothing, at once a homage to and questioning of a way of thinking that has underpinned so much dance and performance in the last thirty years.

Produktion »Cheap Lecture«: Cultureel Centrum Maasmechelen & Dans Limburg, Förderung »The Cow Piece«: Flämisches Ministerium für Kultur, unterstützt von: BIT Teatergarasjen Bergen, Kaaitheater Brüssel, PACT Zollverein Essen, Sadler’s Wells London. Ein Gastspiel in Zusammenarbeit mit der Schaubühne am Lehniner Platz.