"No one who has done anything big ever experiences success alone. Success is the little bit of failure you hear about. What you call failure is the process you go through to become successful. And what makes you successful is what you learn from failure."
Mike Monday
Judy Russell's Enchaînement Dance Center (1995-2010)
San Francisco Ballet School (2010-2012)
Ballet Victoria (Company Artist) (2013-2016)
Arts Club Theatre Company: Billy Elliot (Older Billy) (2016)
Les Grands Ballets Canadiens (Corps de Ballet) (2016)
Leaves Les Grands Ballets Canadiens (2020)
Matthew has danced many lead and title roles with Ballet Victoria (under the direction of Paul Destrooper), including those in Romeo and Juliet, Amadeus, Dracula, Frankenstein, The Nutcracker, and in excerpts from Don Quixote and Le Corsaire. Other repertoire of his includes Nocti-Luxe and Quantum Entanglements (Bruce Monk); Take Two (Shawn Hownsell); and The Rite of Spring, Carmina Burana, Ballet Rocks, and Ballet Off Broadway (Paul Destrooper). Matthew has also had dancing roles in San Francisco Ballet'sCoppélia and The Nutcracker, while under the direction of Helgi Tómasson.
BC Provincials Runner-Up (Stage II): 2008
BC Provincials Runner-Up (Ballet II): 2009
BC Provincials Runner-Up (Ballet III): 2010
