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Works

National Dance Company Wales / Photography by Jorge Lizalde

AUGUST

AUGUST is inspired by sunsets. A moment between day and night. A space between routine and release, restraint and recklessness.

Bathed in the fading colours of dusk and the neon accents of night, the dancers navigate a sensual landscape that shifts between the perilous and the beautiful.

AUGUST is about endings and saying goodbye. It is about the changes that fling us together and tear us apart.

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SEPTEMBER

To hold on, to be pulled away, to let go.

SEPTEMBER is about wanting to live in a moment forever, and the relentless pace of life dragging us forwards. It is about love and saying goodbye. It is a physical poem and a cascade of emotions.

An artistic collaboration with music producer Torben Lars Sylvest, designer George Hampton Wale, and the artists of National Dance Company Wales.

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love to destroy

We are never still. Our bones reach, our blood streams and our nerves burn. Our body changes, blooms and decays.

Love to destroy is about the possibility of letting go, of all we know, and if necessary rejecting who we have been told we are.
It is about change, control, saying yes wholeheartedly and saying no firmly. It is a poem, a moment, a series of emotions; a reminder to feel.

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NEVERSINK

NEVERSINK is about embracing life and transformation. It follows one person through a series of worlds, of fantasies that form and disintegrate around them.

Despite the chaos that surrounds us, the pressure, the absurdity, can we still take brave steps into the unknown? Can we approach the world with youthful, hopeful eyes?

Dedicated to my father, Graham Robinson

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Cracked Nuts

The Nutcracker reimagined by Glitterbomb Dancers

Co-direction / Joseph Mercier, Imogen Reeve and Matthew William Robinson

Co-creation and Performance / Glitterbomb Dancers

Hosting / Tessa Parr aka Johnny the Biblical Rapper

CALIFORNIA

‘Awakened at dawn trying to run away, Got caught dream, Shop-lifting’ Allen Ginsberg (1984)

A series of filmed solos created in collaboration, at distance.

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COLLABorATIONS WITH PERFORMERS / Theo Arran, Dorna Ashory, MAYA CARROLL and Luigi Nardone

DIRECTION and EDIT / Matthew William Robinson

COMMISSIONED WORK

HYLAS

National Dance Company Wales and Goodson Thomas

SANCTUARIUM

DAF

Go

National Dance Company Wales Young ASSOCIATES

NO-SHOW

NatioNal dance company wales

FOAL

Northern School of Contemporary Dance

While we wait and BETWEEN FOUR WALLS

Royal Conservatoire Scotland

Office

Project Y

CampingAFTER RAINPartyWhat we leave behind and TRemors

West College Scotland

May Day and For a second i stood

THE SPACE (scottish School of Contemporary Dance)

Love?

Scottish Dance Theatre ‘Park’

Balloons

Scottish dance theatrE 'Backstage Pass'. improvisation score for Performers/audience

COLLABORATIVE WORK

David Hoyle: Still got it..!? (2024) Glitterbomb dancers for David Hoyle Factory International Residency. Co-directed by Joseph Mercier, Imogen Reeve and Matthew William Robinson

CRACKED NUTS (2022) for Glitterbomb Dancers, CO-DIRECTED by JOSEPH MERCIER, IMOGEN REEVE and MATTHEW William ROBINSON

SWEAT (2022) in collaboration with Joseph Mercier and Glitterbomb Dancers

Why wait for what, for wait for when (2012) In collaboration with Toby Fitzgibbons for Scottish Dance Theatre

Some other future (2011) In collaboration with Toby FitzgibbonS for Scottish Dance Theatre

INDEPENDENT WORK

The lees of happiness (Research and Development)

based on the Novella by F. Scott Fitzgerald.

dancers / Amy HollinsheadFrancesco Ferrari, Marti Guell Valbonna.

Supported by / The Place, and Scottish Dance Theatre

INDECISION (Research and development)

Dancers / Roger Fernandez Cifuentes and Chatchanok Hemachandra.

Supported by / Arts Council England and The Place.

Vacant skin

Lighting /  Emma Jones

Design / Matthias Strahm

Dancers / Eve Ganneau, Nicole Guarino, Naomi Murray, Natalie Trewinnard.