Blending choreography, storytelling, and human connection to create transformative contemporary performance.


RECENT HIGHLIGHTS

2024

Qld Theatre’s Pride and Prejudice
Choreographer, Movement Director & Intimacy Coordinator

Playhouse, Qld Performing Arts Centre

2025

2025

Qld Ballet’s Dangerous Liaisons
Intimacy Coordinator

Talbot Theatre Qld

Trent Dalton’s Love Stories
Choreographer, Movement Director & Intimacy Coordinator

Riverside Paramatta, Canberra Theatre Centre, AANT Darwin, HOTA & The Civic Auckland

2025

2025

Mo Theatre’s Pramkicker
Director, Choreographer & Intimacy Coordinator

Diane Cilento Theatre, Qld Theatre

Chateau d’orquevaux France
Artist in Residence

2024

Phluxus’2 The Next 14 Seconds
Choreographer and Director

Cremorne, Qld Performing Arts Centre

2024

2024

Phluxus2’s Angel Monster
Choreographer and Director

Motion Mongolia Contemporary Dance Festival

2024

2024

Phluxus2’s 10
Choreographer and Performer

HOTA’s Underground Festival, Metro Arts Dance Festival

Phluxus2’s Angel Monster
Choreographer and Director

Cairns Festival

Phluxus2’s Proximal (Film)
Choreographer and Director

New Wave Film Festival Munich Germany


  • AWARDED BEST DANCE FILM
    Proximal - New Wave Film Festival Munich Germany, 2024

    ‘DANCE MAKING GENIUS’
    Nothing Ever Happens in Brisbane

    ‘INNOVATIVE CHOREOGRAPHY, DEEPLY IMMERSIVE EXPERIENCE… TAKING DANCE THEATRE TO BOLD NEW HEIGHTS’
    Westender

    ‘NOTHING SHORT OF ASTOUNDING, THIS IS DANCE THEATRE AT ITS BOLDEST’
    Stage Buzz

    ‘GORGEOUSLY DIRECTED… GOOSEBUMPS!’
    Three Weeks, UK

    ‘UNMISSABLE!’
    Everywhere Theatre

    ‘THRILLING… DEEPLYMOVING, POWERFUL PIECE OF WORK. CLEVER AND CONFIDENT’
    The Stage UK

    ‘HIGH OCTANE DANCE WITH A STRONG BEATING HEART’
    The Scotsman UK


Nerida Matthaei stands speaking on a microphone wearing a pink wig and a colour one piece. She is performing in Danger Ensemble's Caligula in Brisbane