A DRIVING FORCE IN DANCE MAKING, PERFORMANCE AND CHOREOGRAPHIC PRACTICE.

Phluxus2 Dance Collective was founded in 2006 to enable opportunities to create and perform new contemporary dance work that is, and for, a time and place. Today, the collective of over 100 artists has a strong vision to create boundary bashing and innovation driven work for performance, touring and events activation. The collective champions innovation through experimentation, seeking the unknown and advocating for rigorous choreographic practice.

Phluxus2 proudly creates cutting-edge dance work for the stage, events, ceremonies and studios, whilst also delivering exceptional education, community and sector engagement initiatives.

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DR NERIDA MATTHAEI

Nerida Matthaei

The team is led by founder and artistic director Dr Nerida Matthaei. Nerida is the integral life-force of the company’s programs and vision.

Nerida Matthaei is an award-winning choreographer, performer and sought-after collaborator across the dance and performance sectors internationally. 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. Aside from her work with Phluxus2 Nerida has worked extensively with companies such as Queensland Theatre, GOMA, The Royal Ballet, QPAC, Polytoxic, Briefs Factory, The Good Room, The Crackup Sisters and Red Leap Theatre.

Her work has been nominated and awarded numerous accolades including Critics Choice for Best Choreography 2007 Short and Sweet Dance Festival, Runner Up for Best Performance in Dance and Movement 2006 The Age Melbourne Fringe Festival, nominations in The Helpmann Awards, The Matilda Awards and over 13 Australian Dance Awards long list nominations. In 2016 Nerida received the World Dance Alliance Lin Chin Award for Best Emerging Researcher.

Recent highlights include working as Lead Choreographer for Balich Worldwide in Saudi Arabia and Italy, movement director on Boy Swallows Universe with Queensland Theatre, activating William Forsythe’s Fact of Matter for GOMA, joining the Choreographic Team for the 2018 Gold Coast Commonwealth Games Opening Ceremony, touring Angel Monster across Australia and twice to Edinburgh Fringe Festival and Brisbane Festival with 4 and 5 star reviews. She is currently creating with Korean company Sadari Movement Lab.

Nerida completed a Doctor of Creative Industries (QUT) that sought to recontextualise the choreographic self through practice-led experimentation in 2018. 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.

Her experience and vision keeps Phluxus2’s practice current, relevant and pushing practice to ensure the collective cuts the leading edge.

‘Nerida Matthaei, one of Brisbane’s most exciting dancers and choreographers, plays an almost ringmaster role and manages the case in a beautiful way... it is clear she is one of the best in the business.’

N Cooper, Courier Mail

THE TEAM

The Phluxus2 Team are a diverse team of over 100 highly trained and experienced choreographers, performers, teachers and dance artists who collaborate on new work, energise events and facilitate inspired in-education activities.

These artists have skills across all facets of the dance field working in various styles such as contemporary, classical, dance-theatre, partnering, improvisation, hip hop, tap, jazz, musical theatre and more. With such a large and diverse team we can align the best artists for your project – and we love to collaborate!

Phluxus2 Dance Collective, with Nerida Matthaei as its champion, have built a strong community of dance professionals and continue to carve out a lasting legacy. A legacy that can be articulated as innovative, rigorous and at the leading edge of the artistic ecology of Brisbane, Queensland and Australia.

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