Subject:Matter
is a Boston based tap dance company, with the aim of presenting new tap dance work primarily in the Boston area. Our goals are:
To make music/dance
To celebrate the individual subject
To pay respect to the form and its masters
To ask questions
To make others ask questions
To blur the line between choreography and improvisation
To blur the line between audience and performer
To challenge inherited structures
To push the edges of the form
To push forward and glance back
Subject:Matter is a tap dance company based in Boston, MA. Since its founding in 2015 the company has created and performed almost 20 different pieces in over 50 different venues across the East Coast, Midwest and Canada. The company has been featured at the Institute of Contemporary Art in Boston, The Inside/Out Stage at Jacob’s Pillow, Joe’s Pub in New York City with Dance Now, House of Blues Boston, Musikfest in Bethlehem, Pennsylvania, The Montreal Fringe Festival, Stage 773 in Chicago, Illinois and with a residency at MASS MoCA. Subject:Matter is a staple of Boston’s tap dance community, holding jams and community events for all ages.
To make music/dance
To celebrate the individual subject
To pay respect to the form and its masters
To ask questions
To make others ask questions
To blur the line between choreography and improvisation
To blur the line between audience and performer
To challenge inherited structures
To push the edges of the form
To push forward and glance back
Subject:Matter is a tap dance company based in Boston, MA. Since its founding in 2015 the company has created and performed almost 20 different pieces in over 50 different venues across the East Coast, Midwest and Canada. The company has been featured at the Institute of Contemporary Art in Boston, The Inside/Out Stage at Jacob’s Pillow, Joe’s Pub in New York City with Dance Now, House of Blues Boston, Musikfest in Bethlehem, Pennsylvania, The Montreal Fringe Festival, Stage 773 in Chicago, Illinois and with a residency at MASS MoCA. Subject:Matter is a staple of Boston’s tap dance community, holding jams and community events for all ages.
Past Performances
2022
Arts on Site (New York, NY)
Institute of Contemporary Art (Boston, MA)
Crystal Ballroom (Somerville, MA)
2021
Arts on The Hill (Wayland, MA)
Next Stage Arts (Putney, VT)
Boston Symphony Hall (Boston, MA)
2020
The Zeiterion Theatre (New Bedford, MA)
Salem State University (Salem, MA)
Wesleyan University (Middletown, CT)
2019
The Yard (Chilmark, MA)
Williams College (Williamstown, MA)
Harvard ArtLab (Boston, MA)
College of the Holy Cross (Worcester, MA)
MASS MoCA (North Adams, MA)
CRASHfest at House of Blues Boston (Boston, MA)
DanceNow NYC at Joe's Pub (New York, NY)
Inside/Out at Jacob's Pillow (Becket, MA)
Museum of Fine Art Boston (Boston, MA)
Jose Mateo Ballet Theatre with Dianne Walker and Derick Grant (Cambridge, MA)
2018
Inside/Out at Jacob's Pillow (Becket, MA)
Musikfest at Steelstacks (Bethlehem, PA)
CRASHfest at House of Blues (Boston, MA)
DanceNow NYC at Joe's Pub (New York, NY)
2018 Dance Complex Catalyst Artists (Cambridge, MA)
Performance Garage (Philadelphia, PA)
Cedar Crest College (Allentown, PA)
List Visual Arts Center at MIT (Cambridge, MA)
2017
Institute of Contemporary Art (Boston, MA)
Latchis Theatre (Brattleboro, VT)
The Dance Hall (Kittery, ME)
Gibney Dance (New York, NY)
Tufts University (Medford, MA)
Joe's Pub (New York, NY)
2016
Brown Hall at New England Conservatory (Boston, MA)
Stage 773 (Chicago, IL)