Jonathan Matthews

Jonathan Matthews, a Memphis native, trained at Studio “B” Dance, Inis Acla School of Irish Dance, and the MJCC’s Markell School of Dance. He attended NYU’s Tisch School of the Arts, completing a BFA in Dance and a minor in music, studying under Phyllis Lamhut, Gus Solomons, Jr., and Stephen Petronio and contributing to the processes of original works by Deborah Jowitt, Pamela Pietro, Charlotte Boye-Christensen, and Kendra Portier. His studies have taken him abroad to Salzburg Experimental Academy of Dance, Springboard Danse Montreal, and Toscana Dance Hub, where he studied accompaniment with Robert Boston. This past summer he returned to Florence with Tisch Dean, Allyson Green to collaborate on the traveling international site-specific installation, Sacred Sky Sacred Earth. Now New York-based, Jonathan performs with mishiDance, ChristinaNoel & The Creature, Lauren Beirne Dance Works, Darrah Carr Dance, and Valerie Green/Dance Entropy. His choreography has been presented at Dixon Place’s HOT! Festival, commissioned by Project: Motion, and he is a regular contributor of dance and movement direction to This is Not a Theatre Company. A collaborative musician, Jonathan accompanies technique classes at Tisch Dance and has composed original scores for Giada Ferrone, Rashaun Mitchell, and Patrick Corbin, among others. He is currently making his music directorial debut for the Medicine Show Theatre’s upcoming Off-Off Broadway production of Bound to Rise. His criticism can be read at Eye on Dance and the Arts, The Dance Enthusiast, and The Journal of Dance Education. A yoga teacher licensed through the Perri Institute for Mind and Body’s 300-hour pedagogy course, he is passionate about seeking, maintaining, integrating, and sharing a wide range of interdisciplinary studies through physical practice.

Class Description

All yoga classes taught by TaraMarie Perri and Mind Body Dancer® teachers are rooted in a safe, alignment-based, breath-focused, mindful-flow style and are appropriate for anybody interested in cultivating sustainable pathways of the body and mind. Classes are thoughtful and detailed, educational and expressive, as they flowingly pair energetic imagery and anatomical themes. New practitioners create stable foundations, experienced yogis refine and re-connect, and those in between explore and experiment within the range of your body and mind’s remarkable capacity.

Performers, please note:

Yoga with Mind Body Dancer®, as developed by TaraMarie Perri, is a curriculum specifically designed to complement rigorous performance training. Yoga postures sequenced with breathwork invigorate, strengthen and soothe students’ bodies and minds. Students’ investigation of their individual alignment will cultivate sustainable movement pathways, heal old injuries and prevent new ones. The Mind Body Dancer® yoga curriculum specializes in conditioning and harmonizing a performer’s physical instrument with mental awareness. Building on performers’ kinetic intelligence and keen presence, Mind Body Dancer’s yoga classes facilitate technical advancement, creative expression and fulfilling performance experience.

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