Matthew Smith is a dancer/teacher/choreographer from New Zealand where he worked primarily with the dance company Black Grace but also with many other NZ companies. In Europe where he now lives he has worked with Random Scream of Belgium, Carol Brown Dances of London, company Willi Dorner and Theater Combinat of Austria, Impure Company of Norway which also collaborated with the Brazilian dance company Cena 11. Matthew performs around the world for Klaus Obermaier in "Apparition". His own work "observing observing" was presented at S.E.A.D and at the ITS festival in Amsterdam and his first full length work "Spin" premiered this February with the Studio Contemporary Dance Company in Zagreb. When not performing he is involved in education. He has taught pilates at P.A.R.T.S. in Belgium and with Babara Mayr at the Pilates Akademie in Vienna. He has taught contemporary technique for various companies in Europe and in the dance school S.E.A.D as well as teaching regularly at Tanzquartier Wien. He is a teacher of the Axis Syllabus which is an approach to movement and dance developed by Frey Faust. He is in the Masters programme at the British School of Osteopathy.