Mateusz Szczerek is a Dublin based dance artist and professional member of Dance Ireland. Matt is an artistic director for Irish based company Human Collective and choreographer for International Circus/Dance company Kundle Cru.
His recent work includes, Palimpsest – choreographed by David Bolger, CoisCeim Dance Theatre, premiered at The Complex in March 2024.
Mortal Business, development new work with choreographer Jonathan Mitchel in January 2024.
Matt is an artist in residency at Draioght Theatre for the year 2024, researching dance piece for and with participation of young audiences from Dublin 15 and surrounding areas. RSS Digital Commission 2023 at The Civic as a lead artist premiered mix media piece using animation, dance and VR technology at Dublin Fringe Festival 2023 called Matt & Hat. Matt has choreographed dance/circus production called Blame Game produced by Crying Out Loud, piece toured internationally in Germany, Netherlands, UK and Ireland. Currently developing new work with Kundle Cru called BIRDS as part of Arts Grant Funding 2024.
Matt also continues to curate Dance2Connect LAB, a 5 days development program for dancers with International mentors. Matt toured Ireland with over 50 performances of “Up-Close” in 2022 choreographed by Monica Munoz and recently received offer of being one of the lead artists for NEST project at Drioght Theatre.
In 2019 he was selected to be part of The Lir’s LIGHTING DESIGN FOR DANCE mentored by Liz Roche. In 2018 Mateusz choreographed FABLE for Dublin Fringe Festival nominated for best ensemble award. Same year he was selected as an artist in residence for Rua Red gallery. Matt worked with CoisCeim Dance Theatre performing as a principal dancer in THE WOLF & PETER (2017 Sydney Opera
House). In 2017 he was selected by Far From The Norm dance company as a lead Irish artist in international production UNION BLACK, funded by Creative Europe touring UK, France, Sweden, Ireland.
