Matty Davis, photo by Jonah Rosenberg
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Witness the development of a new performance by artist & choreographer Matty Davis. Planned as the culmination of his residency, Davis will host an Open Rehearsal of a newly developed in-progress work, inviting the community to observe his choreographic process throughout its early stages.
Matty Davis is an artist and choreographer based in New York City. His work uses choreography as an instrument to cultivate high-stakes relationships—ranging from the interpersonal to the cosmic—that push himself, his collaborators, and his audiences to face and explore forces that drive some of the most important parts of our lives, such as trust, love, and responsibility. Marked by full-throttle physicality and inventive movement vocabularies, his performances have been described as “balancing ecstatically on the edge of life and death” (Jesse Zaritt).
Following The Essence & The Choice (2025), a performance created and performed with his 13-year-old stepson, and featuring dramaturgy by two-time Pulitzer finalist Chloé Cooper Jones, Davis has embarked on research for a new performance that explores the mysterious thin line within us – which is us—that separates trust and civility from violence. The performance will conclude with a Q&A.
Davis has been scheduled as part of our 2025 Residency program. For more information, please visit thechurchsagharbor.org/residency
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Matty Davis’s work has been presented widely both nationally and internationally, including by the High Line in New York City, the Art Institute of Chicago, The Dallas Contemporary, the ICA Miller at Carnegie Mellon University, and the Palais de Tokyo in Paris. Davis is the recipient of a 2025 McDowell Fellowship and a 2026 Bogliasco Fellowship. His work has been featured and written about in BOMB, Frieze, The Brooklyn Rail, and the New York Times Magazine. He currently teaches at Columbia University.