Nerida Matthaei is a Brisbane-based choreographer, movement director, performer, and intimacy coordinator working across stage and screen worldwide. With over 20 years experience and over 400 creative credits, she is a sought-after collaborator and leader in contemporary performance.

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, she is a much sought-after collaborator across artistic sectors internationally.

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.

Nerida has worked with many artists and companies and prides herself on collaboration and interdisciplinarity. Recent highlights include the premier of her new dance-theatre work The Next 14 Seconds, choreography, intimacy and movement director of Queensland Theatre’s Pride and Prejudice, choreography, movement and intimacy on Trent Dalton’s Love Stories, collaborating South Korean company Sadari Movement Lab on Bottari, as guest choreographer for 2024 Motion Mongolia Contemporary Dance Festival and direction of the multi-award winning short film Proximal. Nerida is an accredited Intimacy Coordinator and has a Doctorate of Creative Industries (research) specialising in choreographic practice.

Nerida is also the founder and artistic director of boundary bashing dance company Phluxus2 Dance Collective.