On choreography: 'Choreography is a negotiation with the patterns your body is thinking' On rules: 'Try breaking the rules on a need to break the rules basis' A Choreographer's Handbook invites the reader to investigate how and why to make a dance performance. In an inspiring and unusually empowering sequence of stories ideas and paradoxes internationally renowned dancer choreographer and teacher Jonathan Burrows explains how it's possible to navigate a course through this complex process. It is a stunning reflection on a personal practice and professional journey and draws upon five years' of workshop discussions led by Burrows. Burrows' open and honest prose gives the reader access to a range of exercises meditations principles and ideas on choreography that allow artists and dance-makers to find their own aesthetic process. It is a book for anyone interested in making performance at whatever level and in whichever style.