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Updated 10/7/2021

Subject:Matter

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    MA

Institution/Business Type: Performing Group

Subject:Matter is a Boston based tap dance company, under the direction of choreographer with the aim of presenting new, cutting-edge tap dance work primarily in the Boston area. Our goals are:

To make music/dance
To celebrate the individual subject
To pay respect to the form and its masters
To ask questions
To make others ask questions
To blur the line between choreography and improvisation
To blur the line between audience and performer
To challenge inherited structures
To push the edges of the form
To push forward and glance back 

Find Me

Ian Berg
Job Title: "Choreographer"
Address:
624 Somerville Ave
Somerville, MA 02143

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About

Overview

Institution/Business Type:

Performing Group

Legal Status:

Nonprofit - Unincorporated

Year Founded:

2015

Overview

Institution/Business Type:

Performing Group

Legal Status:

Nonprofit - Unincorporated

Year Founded:

2015

Disciplines

Primary Discipline:

Dance - Tap / Percussive

Additional Disciplines:

  • Multi-Disciplinary

Activities and Services

Activities and Services:

  • Arts for Social Change / Creative Activism
  • Audio or Video Recording
  • Performance / Concert / Reading
  • Public Art Projects (In Free, Public Spaces)
  • Workshops / Demonstrations / Master Class
Seasons Active: spring, summer, fall, winter
Events Per Year: 30

Communities

Populations Engaged:

  • Adults
  • Businesses
  • Elders
  • Families
  • General Public
  • Immigrant Populations
  • Incarcerated (or Formerly Incarcerated) individuals
  • LGBTQ Populations
  • Native American Tribes
  • Nonprofits
  • People with Disabilities
  • School Groups
  • Teens
  • Veteran/Active Duty Military Personnel
  • Youth-At-Risk

Geographic Reach:

  • Multi-State Region
  • National

Media Gallery

I Have Worked With

Affiliations and Accomplishments

Awards

Awards:

  • N/A

Awards

Awards:

  • N/A

Artist Info

Teaching Artist

Teaching Settings:

  • Afterschool Program
  • Arts and Cultural Center / Venue
  • Community Site / Center
  • Private Studio
  • School / University

Ages Served:

  • Pre-Kindergarten-age
  • Elementary School-age
  • Middle School-age
  • High School-age
  • College-age
  • Adults
  • Seniors

Subject Areas:

  • Dance
  • Music

Teaching Artist

Teaching Settings:

  • Afterschool Program
  • Arts and Cultural Center / Venue
  • Community Site / Center
  • Private Studio
  • School / University

Ages Served:

  • Pre-Kindergarten-age
  • Elementary School-age
  • Middle School-age
  • High School-age
  • College-age
  • Adults
  • Seniors

Subject Areas:

  • Dance
  • Music

Touring Artist

NEST Eligible Artist

Technical Requirements:

  • Shotgun Microphones
  • Appropriate flooring (can be provided by Artist for fee)

Fee Range:

$500 - $10,000

State of Residence:

Massachusetts

Minimum Number of Performers:

2

Maximum Number of Performers:

11