Matthew Winston

Matthew has been working as a professional dancer and movement practitioner for the past 19 years. His training began at Laban, where he completed his degree with first class honours. He then spent a year at London Contemporary Dance School as a member of EDge, performing works by Trisha Brown, Ben Wright and Kerry Nicholls.

After graduating, Matthew went on to work with Matthew Bourne’s New Adventures, Bare Bones dance company, and was a founding member of Ben Wright’s company, Bgroup. He has also worked with Liam Steele and Robert Tannion in their company Stan Won’t Dance, performed in operas at home and abroad, taught a number of classes and workshops in China, and completed his MA at London Contemporary Dance School. He began working with Protein dance in 2012, notably performing in (In)visible Dancing and May Contain Food. In his most recent work with the company, Matthew completed a rural tour of the duet May Contain Food, May Contain You, and in 2022 performed in the three hour promenade piece En Route.

In recent years he has worked extensively with Casson and Friends, and this autumn has continued his work on Sleuth with Zoie Logic Dance Theatre - an interactive film Noir detective story. In 2022 he completed his training to become a certified Franklin Method educator. Matthew has a huge amount of experience as a teacher and educator, and has taught people of all ages abilities to use their bodies and explore movement in new and creative ways.