Sergiu Matiș

Biography

Sergiu Matis was born in Cluj-Napoca, Romania, studied dance at Liceul de Coregrafie in Cluj (1991-2000) and then at Akademie des Tanzes Mannheim as a scholar of Tanzstiftung Birgit Keil.

Matis starts his professional career at Tanztheater Nürnberg where amongst others he worked with Daniela Kurz, Stijn Celis, Jo Strømgren, Catherine Guerin, Rodolfo Leoni, Russell Maliphant, Lionel Hoche, Jo Kanamori, Rui Horta, Javier de Frutos, Andre Gingras, Jorma Elo.

Since 2008 he has been living in Berlin where he worked with Colette Sadler – Stammer Productions, Yossi Berg, Oded Graf, Philip Bergmann and joined the Company Sasha Waltz & Guests for several productions. Matis joined the Master Programme Solo Dance Authorship at HZT/ UDK Berlin in Spring 2012.

Own creations: Human Nature, Landing, ThreeDoors.Search, 89.Grenzenlos, Ploaie de vara, 5 short pieces for Tanzkunst at Neues Museum Nürnberg, Ending-dong, doom room, Duet.