Matthias Sperling
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Matthias Sperling is a contemporary dance
choreographer, performer and educator based in London
, UK.
He is an Associate Artist with Dance4 and winner of a Bonnie Bird New Choreography Award. His solo, Riff, has been presented at festivals including nottdance07 (UK), Les Reperages (France) and Springdance (Netherlands).
, before studying with Transitions Dance Company at the Laban college in the UK. He was a member of Wayne McGregor
’s Random Dance Company
for five years and also worked with companies including Kerry Nicholls Dance Company and Matthew Bourne
’s Adventures in Motion Pictures, besides participating in the Jerwood Bank Project 2006 with Siobhan Davies Dance Company
.
His film and television credits include an appearance in the film Billy Elliot
(2000), appearances on Arte Television and working as Dance Assistant on the film Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire
(2005). In 2007 he worked with Dance4 on a Creative Partnerships project with Willi Dorner as well as the Aim Higher educational project.
Current projects include a collaboration with Senegal
-based choreographer Andreya Ouamba for Woking Dance Festival and a collaboration with Siobhan Davies
, to be performed in spring 2009.
Contemporary dance
Contemporary dance is a genre of concert dance that employs compositional philosophy, rather than choreography, to guide unchoreographed movement...
choreographer, performer and educator based in London
London
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, UK.
He is an Associate Artist with Dance4 and winner of a Bonnie Bird New Choreography Award. His solo, Riff, has been presented at festivals including nottdance07 (UK), Les Reperages (France) and Springdance (Netherlands).
Biography
Born in Canada, Matthias trained with the Canadian Children's Dance Theatre in TorontoToronto
Toronto is the provincial capital of Ontario and the largest city in Canada. It is located in Southern Ontario on the northwestern shore of Lake Ontario. A relatively modern city, Toronto's history dates back to the late-18th century, when its land was first purchased by the British monarchy from...
, before studying with Transitions Dance Company at the Laban college in the UK. He was a member of Wayne McGregor
Wayne McGregor
Wayne McGregor CBE is a British choreographer of contemporary modern dance. His work is highly distinctive in its vocabulary of movement, for its integration of dance with film and visual art, and for his active interest and incorporation of computer technology and biological science...
’s Random Dance Company
Wayne McGregor Random Dance Company
Wayne McGregor | Random Dance was founded in 1992, then Random Dance, and became the instrument upon which Wayne McGregor evolved his drastically fast and articulate choreographic style...
for five years and also worked with companies including Kerry Nicholls Dance Company and Matthew Bourne
Matthew Bourne
Matthew Bourne OBE is a British classical and contemporary ballet and dance choreographer.-Biography:Matthew Bourne was born in Hackney, London in 1960. He went to William Fitt and Sir George Monoux School in Walthamstow, London...
’s Adventures in Motion Pictures, besides participating in the Jerwood Bank Project 2006 with Siobhan Davies Dance Company
Siobhan Davies Dance Company
Siobhan Davies Dance is one of the UK's leading contemporary dance companies founded in 1988 by Siobhan Davies, previously a dancer and choreographer with the London Contemporary Dance Theatre...
.
His film and television credits include an appearance in the film Billy Elliot
Billy Elliot
Billy Elliot is a 2000 British drama film written by Lee Hall and directed by Stephen Daldry. Set in the fictional town of "Everington" in the real County Durham, UK, it stars Jamie Bell as 11-year-old Billy, an aspiring dancer, Gary Lewis as his coal miner father, Jamie Draven as Billy's older...
(2000), appearances on Arte Television and working as Dance Assistant on the film Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire
Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire
Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire is the fourth novel in the Harry Potter series written by J. K. Rowling, published on 8 July 2000.The novel won a Hugo Award in 2001, the only Harry Potter novel to do so...
(2005). In 2007 he worked with Dance4 on a Creative Partnerships project with Willi Dorner as well as the Aim Higher educational project.
Current projects include a collaboration with Senegal
Senegal
Senegal , officially the Republic of Senegal , is a country in western Africa. It owes its name to the Sénégal River that borders it to the east and north...
-based choreographer Andreya Ouamba for Woking Dance Festival and a collaboration with Siobhan Davies
Siobhan Davies
Siobhan Davies CBE DLitt was a dancer with the London Contemporary Dance Theatre during the 1970s, then becoming one of its leading choreographers before founding her own company — the Siobhan Davies Dance Company — in 1988.First training in art, Davies was one of the first year's intake of...
, to be performed in spring 2009.
External links
- Official web site
- Matthias Sperling Profile dance4.co.uk.