Paul Matteson, Lewis Center for the Arts

Lecturer in Dance

Photo credit: David Morelos Zaragoza Laguera

About

Paul Matteson's research explores imaginative methods for generating personal movement within collaborative choreography. His evening-length duet with Jennifer Nugent, titled another piece apart, premiered in New York City at New York Live Arts and in Boston at the Dance Complex. He was a member of the internationally touring Bill T. Jones/Arnie Zane Company from 2008 to 2012. He has also worked with David Dorfman Dance, Lisa Race, Terry Creach, Peter Schmitz, Neta Pulvermacher, and others. He received a Bessie Award for his body of work as a performer. Matteson regularly teaches at summer festivals, including the American Dance Festival, the Bates Dance Festival, SALT Dance, and Provincial Dance Theater’s Summer School in Yekaterinburg, Russia. He was faculty at Amherst College and Mount Holyoke College and an Associate Professor at the School of Dance at the University of the Arts. Matteson earned a BA from Middlebury College and an MFA in Dance from Bennington College, and he is currently pursuing an MDiv degree at Naropa University with a focus on hospital chaplaincy. He is a visiting faculty member in the BFA in Dance Lab and Low-Residency MFA in Dance program at Bennington for the 2024-2025 academic year. Matteson is thrilled to be co-teaching with Shayla-Vie Jenkins at Princeton University for the spring 2025 semester.