Nerida Matthaei
Nerida Matthaei
Choreographer
Dr Nerida Matthaei is an award-winning choreographer, performer and the Artistic Director of Phluxus2 Dance Collective. The underlying pulse of her work comes from an ingrained passion for contemporary choreographic practice as a beautifully planned anarchy of mind-body collaboration.
Driven by challenging socio-political orthodoxy and breaking conventions through physical performance, she is a much sought-after collaborator across the dance and performance sectors internationally.
Biography
Nerida Matthaei is an award-winning choreographer, performer and the Artistic Director of Phluxus2 Dance Collective. The underlying pulse of her work comes from an ingrained passion for contemporary choreographic practice as a beautifully planned anarchy of mind-body collaboration. Driven by challenging socio-political orthodoxy and breaking conventions through physical performance, she is a much sought-after collaborator across the dance and performance sectors internationally. She is extremely generous with her skills and time, not only collaborating and leading arts projects around the world, but investing in grassroots programs benefiting the local independent and community sectors and sitting on boards such as Ausdance Queensland.
Nerida works with companies such as Sadari Movement Lab, Brisbane Festival, Motion Mongolia, Polytoxic, Briefs Factory, The Good Room, The Crackup Sisters, Queensland Theatre, Red Leap Theatre, GOMA, The Royal Ballet and QPAC. She has collaborated with and worked alongside artists such as Trent Dalton, Dan Evans, Sam Strong, Leah Shelton, Wesley Enoch, Natalie Weir, Nathan Wright, and Lisa Fa’alafi. Her works for Phluxus2 Dance Collective include Angel Monster, Proximal, Don’ts For Dancers, Boiling Point, de-generator, The Paratrooper Project, Mort, new work 10 and the annual THE indepenDANCE PROJECT.
Her work has been nominated and awarded numerous accolades including nominations in The Helpmann Awards, The Matilda Awards and over 13 Australian Dance Awards. In 2016 Nerida received the World Dance Alliance Lin Chin Award for Best Emerging Researcher. Nerida’s recent work Angel Monster toured to sold out audiences in 2019, voted Best of the Fest twice at Edinburgh Fringe (2022 and 2023), 2022 Brisbane Festival with many 5 star reviews.
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