CHRISTOPHER MATTHEWS
American-born choreographer based in London.
Bio.
American, dancer, choreographer, visual artist, curator, educator // queer, working class, neurodivergent // loves Janet Jackson, is a dancer because has always strived to dance for her // Is from Virginia but had lived in NYC and currently between London and Madrid // Scorpio // usually wearing neon
Chris loves all things dance related
Christopher Matthews is an American-born choreographer and performance artist working from London. He holds a BFA from New York University Tisch School of the Arts and an MA in Choreography from TrinityLaban. His video and performance works have been presented in Sadler’s Wells Theatre, Art Night 2018, Victoria & Albert Museum, Enclave Gallery, Arbyte Gallery, performance space, LimaZulu, 4BID Gallery (Amsterdam), Mount Florida Gallery (Glasgow), Castlefield Gallery (Manchester), Millennium (NYC) Reykjavik Dance Festival, Cent Quatre (Paris), MCLA Gallery 51 (Mass) Villa Empain (Brussels), Prism Contemporary (Blackburn, UK), Thessaloniki Queer Arts Festival (Greece), and Loop Video Art Festival (Barcelona). His dance works have been performed in NYC, Guatemala, Germany, Taiwan, Spain, London, and Edinburgh. Christopher’s “Untitled Video Portrait (radio edit)” took 1st Prize at the Choreographic Captures Competition and his films have been distributed across cinemas in Germany and Switzerland.
Matthews was a judge and contemporary choreographer on the popular Angolan dance reality series Bounce. He has been a featured contestant on various reality shows in the USA and U.K. He has choreographed and directed music videos for Erickatoure Aviance and Angolan artist Coreon Du.
Christopher was a South East Dance/ Brighton Digital Festival (BDF) artist in 2019. He was CreativeWorks London Entrepreneur in Residence with Roehampton University in 2012 and Dance Artist in Residence at the Southbank Centre and completed a residency in Zagreb through WildCard Jardin D’Europe Award.
