is a collaborative dancemaker and artist educator based in Washington, DC. His artistic research cultivates processes and experiences that are participatory and intergenerational, moving through known and unknown, and bring a poetic lens to a specifically queer experience. He has been commissioned to create and share performances at places like Dance Place, Bates Dance Festival, the Kennedy Center, Jacob’s Pillow, and Harvard University, as well as the New York City Roundtable Arts in Education conference and the LGBT Health and Art Making conference, among many others. Matthew’s work has been supported by the National Endowment for the Arts, the DC Commission for the Arts and Humanities, the Arcus Foundation, and the Somerville Arts Council, and has led to engagements with communities across the country. His interest in collaborative processes has led him to work with a wide range of artists, whose influences have left a mark and inform his current practice-- Liz Lerman, Cassie Meador, Keith Thompson, Sarah Gamblin, jhon stronks, Bebe Miller, Chris Aiken and Angie Hauser, Betsy Miller, and Annie Kloppenberg, among others. Matthew found a creative home with Dance Exchange from 2011 to 2019, and played an important role in furthering the work and identity of Dance Exchange post-founder as an Associate Artistic Director. Originally from Houston, he holds an MFA in dance from Texas Woman’s University.