| Title (4) | File type | Publiseringsdato | Download |
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| Festivalprogram for Meteor-festivalen 2013 | 2013 | Download | |
| Season program BIT Teatergarasjen the autumn of 2013. | August 2013 | Download | |
| Sesongprogram BIT Teatergarasjen høsten 2011 | 2011 | Download | |
| Sesongprogram Black Box Teater vår 2017 | January 2017 | Download |
Cheap Lecture
Cheap Lecture/The Cow Piece by Jonathan Burrows and Matteo Fargion (England/Italy) is a double-billed production.
Cheap Lecture is a humorous art theoretic rap, a rhythmic text to music, performed by a dancer and a composer.
The title is a merging of two works by the composer John Cage: Lecture on Nothing, which is part of his texts about silence, and Cheap Imitation, an unrecognisable transcription of Erik Satie's Socrate for piano to choreography by Merce Cunningham.
Information
(Objekt ID 17464)| Object type | Production |
| Premiere | September 8, 2011 |
| Produced by | Jonathan Burrows/Matteo Fargion |
| Coproducers | |
| Based on | Cheap Imitation by John Cage; Lecture On Nothing by John Cage |
| Audience | Adults |
| Language | English |
| Keywords | Dance, Lecture, Multidisciplinary, Performance |
| Duration | 60 minutes |
| Website | Jonathan Burrows, BLACK BOX TEATER |
Requirements to venue
| Blackout | Yes |
The double-billed production Cheap Lecture/The Cow Piece by Jonathan Burrows and Matteo Fargion uses Cage and Cunningham as two central references.
Cheap Lecture chatters on about empty hands, the audience, time, repetition and dance. With this Jonathan Burrows and Matteo Fargion continue a theoretical-humorous project leading from their prize-awarded trilogy with the paradoxical titles Both Sitting Duet (2002), The Quiet Dance (2005) and Speaking Dance (2006).
Cheap Lecture swings from the philosophical to the humorous and shows how artists work, mixed with continuous digressions. Cheap Lecture is immediately followed by the performance The Cow Piece (2009), a chaotic meditation over dance, music and mortality, breaking from the mentioned project.
Jonathan Burrows danced with the English Royal Ballet for 13 years before creating his own choreographies. His first collaboration was Weak Dance Strong Questions with Jan Ritsema. This production was performed during the festival Oktoberdans at BIT Teatergarasjen in 2001.
Later came a series of duets with rock bass player and composer Matteo Fargion, who began to write music for dance after seeing the legendary Merce Cunningham Dance Company.
Source:
BIT Teatergarasjen, autumn program 2011. 25.08.2011: http://www.bit-teatergarasjen.no/article/405
| Name | Role |
|---|---|
| Jonathan Burrows | – Concept/Idea |
| Matteo Fargion | – Concept/Idea |
| Jonathan Burrows | – Performer |
| Matteo Fargion | – Performer |
| Nigel Hinds | – Producer |
| April 21, 2017 – Store scene Black Box Teater (Marstrandgata) | Show |
| October 19, 2013 21.00 – Røkeriet USF, USF Verftet (METEOR) | Show |
| September 9, 2011 19:00 – Studio Bergen, Carte Blanche | Show |
| September 8, 2011 19:00 – Studio Bergen, Carte Blanche | National premiere, Norway |
| METEOR | October 19, 2013 |
“Jonathan Burrows and Matteo Fargion have created a performance that dances in your head. It’s superb.”
– Avisa De Morgen, Belgium, about Cheap Lecture
"There are few performers who can hold an audience captive like this double act... the timing of every note, shrug and gesture is awsome. Five stars."
-The Guardian, London
"The funniest, richest, most life-enhancing evening I've had at anything associated with the 'dance' label this year (probably since their last one)."
-The web page theartdesk.com