About Matt

Baltimore City

Matt Reeves (he/him) is a director, choreographer, filmmaker, editor, projection/mixed media video designer, and teaching artist. He has been making work collaboratively alongside his wife and artistic soulmate Colette Krogol for over ten years as the Artistic Director of Orange Grove Dance (OGD), a multimedia dance company that creates visually athletic experiences through the lenses of dance, film, and design. He holds a Masters of Fine Arts in Dance from the… more

Remnants

Remnants premiered in March of 2018 as part of the Inaugural DIRECT CURRENT Season at The Kennedy Center. DIRECT CURRENT, the Kennedy Center’s two-week celebration of contemporary culture, focuses on new works, and interdisciplinary creations in which artistic worlds collide. This season showcases some of the most provocative, original, and pioneering voices in the arts today. DIRECT CURRENT takes place at the Kennedy Center and beyond, extending throughout the District of Columbia through collaborations with a number of alternative venues, to expand the growing audience for contemporary culture in the nation’s capital.

Remnants is the second work of the 4 Recurring Dreams Tetralogy; a series of evening length dances that explore the personal dreams and mythopoetic images of one family’s migration from Cuba in 1980. This Orange Grove Dance original work takes audiences on a mytho-poetic and dream-like journey that physically conjures up the visual metaphors of the inexhaustible burning hope of the human spirit. What does it mean to start over? What are the things we carry? What survives within us? What is left behind?

Direction & Choreography: Colette Krogol & Matt Reeves
Performers: Robin Neveu Brown, London Brison, Jonathan Hsu, Colette Krogol, Matt Reeves, Mei Yamanaka
Original Score: Dylan Glatthorn
Sound Design: Matt Reeves
Projection Design: Matt Reeves
Lighting Design: Peter Leibold 
Costume Design: Robert Croghan
Stage Manager: Tori Ujczo

Video trailer edited by Matt Reeves

  • Remnants (Trailer)
    Remnants is a bridge to the stories that we have been told since we were young and the places we have still never touched. This Orange Grove Dance takes audiences on a mytho-poetic and dream-like journey that physically conjures up the visual metaphors of the inexhaustible burning hope of the human spirit. What does it mean to start over? What are the things we carry? What survives within us? What is left behind? Presented as part of the Kennedy Center's DIRECT CURRENT inaugural season. (World Premiere)
  • Remnants @ The Kennedy Center (Poster)
    Remnants @ The Kennedy Center (Poster)
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  • Remnants @ The Kennedy Center- (Credit Mark Costello)
    Remnants @ The Kennedy Center- (Credit Mark Costello)
  • Remnants @ The Kennedy Center- (Credit Mark Costello)
    Remnants @ The Kennedy Center- (Credit Mark Costello)
  • Remnants @ The Kennedy Center- (Credit Mark Costello)
    Remnants @ The Kennedy Center- (Credit Mark Costello)
  • Remnants @ The Kennedy Center- (Credit Mark Costello)
    Remnants @ The Kennedy Center- (Credit Mark Costello)
  • Remnants @ The Kennedy Center
    Remnants @ The Kennedy Center

Waking Darkness. Waiting Light.

Waking Darkness. Waiting Light. is the inceptive work of the 4 Recurring Dreams Tetralogy; a series of evening length dances that explore the personal dreams and mythopoetic images of one family’s migration from Cuba in 1980. The work is a dialogue on them on timely themes such as migration, exodus, and transformation. "How do you prepare in twenty minutes to leave your home forever? What do you hold one last time?"

​Using sophisticated sensor technology and digital-media interaction Waking Darkness. Waiting Light. explores the nature of recurring dreams that tear through our homes, awakening us from sleep.

“These dreams are the bridge to the stories that we have been told since we were young and the places we’ve still never touched.

An excerpt of this work won the Audience Choice Award at the 34th Annual Choreographers’ Showcase in 2017 and was described by Dance Metro DC as a “magically spun… visual tale of suspension, tension, and community within a multilayered moving painting.”

Direction & Choreography: Colette Krogol & Matt Reeves
Performers: Robin Neveu Brown/Juliana Ponguta, Jonathan Hsu, Colette Krogol, Matt Reeves
Original Score: Dylan Glatthorn
Sound Design: Jeff Dorfman
Projection Design: Mark Costello
Lighting Design: Peter Leibold & Connor Dreibelbis
Scenic & Prop Design: Matt Reeves
Costume Design: Robert Croghan
Stage Manager: Tarythe Albrecht

Videography by Geoff Sheil Video trailer edited by Matt Reeves
  • Waking Darkness. Waiting Light.
    Waking Darkness. Waiting Light. uses sophisticated sensor technology and digital-media interaction to explore the nature of recurring dreams that tear through our homes, awakening us from sleep. “These dreams are the bridge to the stories that we have been told since we were young and the places we’ve still never touched.” Based on mythopoetic research into personal dreams and stories of one family’s migration from Cuba in 1980, Orange Grove Dance opens up new dialogues on timely themes such as migration, exodus, and transformation.
  • Waking Darkness. Waiting Light. (Credit C. Stanley)
    Waking Darkness. Waiting Light. (Credit C. Stanley)
  • Waking Darkness. Waiting Light. (Credit C. Stanley)
    Waking Darkness. Waiting Light. (Credit C. Stanley)
  • Waking Darkness. Waiting Light. (Credit C. Stanley)
    Waking Darkness. Waiting Light. (Credit C. Stanley)
  • Waking Darkness. Waiting Light. (Credit C. Stanley)
    Waking Darkness. Waiting Light. (Credit C. Stanley)
  • Waking Darkness. Waiting Light. (Credit C. Stanley)
    Waking Darkness. Waiting Light. (Credit C. Stanley)
  • Waking Darkness. Waiting Light. (Credit C. Stanley)
    Waking Darkness. Waiting Light. (Credit C. Stanley)
  • Waking Darkness. Waiting Light. (Credit C. Stanley)
    Waking Darkness. Waiting Light. (Credit C. Stanley)
  • Waking Darkness. Waiting Light. (Credit C. Stanley)
    Waking Darkness. Waiting Light. (Credit C. Stanley)
  • Waking Darkness. Waiting Light. (Credit C. Stanley)
    Waking Darkness. Waiting Light. (Credit C. Stanley)

The Archetypes

A film at the intersections of dance, dream, and mythology.


FILM SYNOPSIS
The film follows six Archetypes through a dream-like reality as they near the end of a cycle. Ares and Athena are fated into a timeless battle, siblings pitted against one another, their destinies inextricably forced to collide. Hermes carries the call to action for all thus setting the stage for a final struggle between order and chaos, light and darkness. In the balance hangs the prophetic Pandora, burdened with a key and plagued by nightmares symbolic of the impending storm. Wise Prometheus accompanies her as they journey off to find Atlas whom ultimately carries the portal to their final destination.

BUILDING MODERN MYTHS
Using Greek mythological archetypes and insights from the Monomyth Theory of Joseph Campbell as a base for inspiration, we are creating modern mythologies within an abstract narrative that live and breathe in the fabric of today’s human psyche. Joseph Campbell said "Myths are public dreams, dreams are private myths.” 'THE ARCHETYPES' is an exploration into the private dreams that make up our new public myths today.

A UNIQUE DANCE FILM 
“Dance on film is always an affirmation of the moving storyteller we have inside our bodies. It reminds us to listen to the body. The body speaks deeply to who we are as people and often times it speaks with more honesty and clarity than the mouth. For this reason alone we need more dance on film. It is one of the few ways we can keep our ancestral truths relevant in a modern society.”

Matt Reeves- Orange Grove Dance
Screenplay Writer & Co-Choreographer for THE ARCHETYPES 



BEST DANCE FILM*** ET CULTURA FILM FESTIVAL
FLORIDA FILMMAKERS AWARD*** ET CULTURA FILM FESTIVAL

OFFICIAL SELECTION*
DAM SHORT FILM FESTIVAL
UNDERGROUND FILM FEST
STOCKHOLM INDEPENDENT FILM FESTIVAL
SKYLINE INDIE FILM FEST
ET CULTURA FILM FESTIVAL
TAMPA BAY UNDERGROUND FILM FESTIVAL
FESTIVAL ANGAELICA
RICHMOND INTERNATIONAL FILM FESTIVAL


FILMMAKERS

DIRECTOR: WILLIAM J. STRIBLING
CHOREOGRAPHERS: COLETTE KROGOL & MATT REEVES
DIRECTOR OF PHOTOGRAPHY: ALEX GALLITANO
COMPOSER: DYLAN GLATTHORN
EDITOR BY: RAYMOND FRASER & THOMAS NUDI
COSTUME DESIGNER: JESSICA RAY HARRISON
PRODUCTION DESIGNER: ALEX WHITTENBERG
LG LIGHTING DESIGNER: SHAUN SUCHAN
SOUND BY: HAYLEY WAGNER
SCREENPLAY BY: MATT REEVES

PRODUCED BY: COLETTE KROGOL & MATT REEVES
EXECUTIVE PRODUCER: JASON LUDMAN
ASSOCIATE PRODUCER: RJ LEWIS

  • The Archetypes (Trailer)
    THE ARCHETYPES is a visual journey steeped in mythology and expressed through dance-film aesthetics. The film follows six ARCHETYPES through a dream-like reality as they near the end of a cycle. Doomed to their legendary roles, the ARCHETYPES have no choice but to fulfill their cosmic destinies, compelled by nature to play their part in this epic story, which is revealed on a human scale. BEST DANCE FILM*** ET CULTURA FILM FESTIVAL & FLORIDA FILMMAKERS AWARD*** ET CULTURA FILM FESTIVAL
  • The Archetypes Film
    The Archetypes Film
  • The Archetypes Film
    The Archetypes Film
  • The Archetypes Film
    The Archetypes Film
  • The Archetypes Film
    The Archetypes Film
  • The Archetypes Film
    The Archetypes Film
  • The Archetypes Film
    The Archetypes Film
  • The Archetypes Film
    The Archetypes Film
  • The Archetypes Film
    The Archetypes Film
  • The Archetypes Film
    The Archetypes Film

Pericles: Born in a Tempest

Produced by The Guerrilla Shakespeare Project and Hunger & Thirst Theater
Premiered in NYC 2017
http://www.guerrillashakespeare.org/

"The projections by Matt Reeves are another highlight, striking a balance between the ornamental-like illustrations in a storybook and the suggestive, semi-realistic background of the narrative itself. Most importantly, this design  manages to accentuate the storytelling without becoming a distraction."

Ran Xia- THEATER IS EASY
http://www.theasy.com/Reviews/2017/P/periclesborninatempest.php
  • Pericles: Born in a Tempest (The Guerrilla Shakespeare Project with Hunger & Thirst Theater)
    Pericles: Born in a Tempest (The Guerrilla Shakespeare Project with Hunger & Thirst Theater)
  • Pericles: Born in a Tempest (The Guerrilla Shakespeare Project with Hunger & Thirst Theater)
    Pericles: Born in a Tempest (The Guerrilla Shakespeare Project with Hunger & Thirst Theater)
  • Pericles: Born in a Tempest (The Guerrilla Shakespeare Project with Hunger & Thirst Theater)
    Pericles: Born in a Tempest (The Guerrilla Shakespeare Project with Hunger & Thirst Theater)
  • Pericles: Born in a Tempest (The Guerrilla Shakespeare Project with Hunger & Thirst Theater)
    Pericles: Born in a Tempest (The Guerrilla Shakespeare Project with Hunger & Thirst Theater)
  • Pericles: Born in a Tempest (The Guerrilla Shakespeare Project with Hunger & Thirst Theater)
    Pericles: Born in a Tempest (The Guerrilla Shakespeare Project with Hunger & Thirst Theater)
  • Pericles: Born in a Tempest (The Guerrilla Shakespeare Project with Hunger & Thirst Theater)
    Pericles: Born in a Tempest (The Guerrilla Shakespeare Project with Hunger & Thirst Theater)
  • Pericles: Born in a Tempest (The Guerrilla Shakespeare Project with Hunger & Thirst Theater)
    Pericles: Born in a Tempest (The Guerrilla Shakespeare Project with Hunger & Thirst Theater)
  • Pericles: Born in a Tempest (The Guerrilla Shakespeare Project with Hunger & Thirst Theater)
    Pericles: Born in a Tempest (The Guerrilla Shakespeare Project with Hunger & Thirst Theater)

Un Castell Built for Two

This is a trailer of the first iteration of Un castell built for two, which is a new evening length dance work, paralleling the precarious balance of human tower building and the powerful connections it brings to it's participants.

This piece is profoundly inspired by our recent residency work in Llorenç Del Penedes, Spain, where we were able to witness the deeply moving construction of human towers during the fiesta major celebrations of the region. Tonight’s events use the embodied knowledge of contact improvisation and partnering work to explore new methods of weight sharing, relationship, and interdependence to make us ask the question of where the physical metaphors of tower building exist in our own community. This new work is a step in our process to find them.

“It's about weight. It's about the weight of our bodies. It's about holding each other and building. Where are our castells in our everyday relationships? What are we building? Who are we supporting?”

CHOREOGRAPHY
Colette Krogol & Matt Reeves
In collaboration with dancers.

GRACIAS ESPECIALES
CeRCCa Residency
Pau Cata
Marina Saura
Joaquim Sicart Bertran
Maria Vall Camell
Ignasi Perez Galan
Alba Vinyes Lasso

SPECIAL THANKS
Brooke Kidd, JME’s Founder and Executive Director, for making this performance possible and bringing us into the space.

Miriam Phillips, for guiding our process and approach to the dance research involved in the work.

Our incredible community at the University of Maryland; faculty, cohort, students, collaborators and friends.

  • Un castell built for two (Performance Trailer)
    This is a trailer of the first iteration of Un castell built for two, which is a new evening length dance work, paralleling the precarious balance of human tower building and the powerful connections it brings to it's participants. This piece is profoundly inspired by our recent residency work in Llorenç Del Penedes, Spain, where we were able to witness the deeply moving construction of human towers during the fiesta major celebrations of the region.
  • Un castell built for two (Credit Zachary Z. Handler)
    Un castell built for two (Credit Zachary Z. Handler)
  • Un castell built for two (Credit Zachary Z. Handler)
    Un castell built for two (Credit Zachary Z. Handler)
  • Un castell built for two (Credit Zachary Z. Handler)
    Un castell built for two (Credit Zachary Z. Handler)
  • Un castell built for two (Credit Zachary Z. Handler)
    Un castell built for two (Credit Zachary Z. Handler)
  • Un castell built for two (Credit Zachary Z. Handler)
    Un castell built for two (Credit Zachary Z. Handler)
  • Un castell built for two (Credit Zachary Z. Handler)
    Un castell built for two (Credit Zachary Z. Handler)
  • Un castell built for two (Credit Zachary Z. Handler)
    Un castell built for two (Credit Zachary Z. Handler)
  • Un castell built for two (Credit Zachary Z. Handler)
    Un castell built for two (Credit Zachary Z. Handler)
  • Un castell built for two (Credit Zachary Z. Handler)
    Un castell built for two (Credit Zachary Z. Handler)

Open Box Project

The OPEN BOX Project is a brand-new evening-length collaboration between Rogue Collective and Orange Grove Dance featuring compelling music and dancing. Performed in the vast tunnels of Dupont Underground, the architecture serves as rich inspiration for this interactive evening, which explores how space, material, light, and sound affect the experiences and actions of their inhabitants. Influenced by American minimalism and popular music the string players of Rogue Collective blend their sounds and creations with the dynamic, virtuosic, and visually athletic choreography of Orange Grove Dance.

Performances @ Dupont Underground

Video shot and edited by Oliver Mertz

  • Open Box Project (Performance Trailer)
    The OPEN BOX Project is an evening-length collaboration between Rogue Collective and Orange Grove Dance featuring compelling music and dancing. Performed in the vast tunnels of Dupont Underground, the architecture serves as rich inspiration for this interactive evening, which explores how space, material, light, and sound affect the experiences and actions of their inhabitants. Influenced by American minimalism and popular music the string players of Rogue Collective blend their sounds and creations with the dynamic, virtuosic, and visually athletic choreography of Orange Grove Dance.
  • Open Box Project (Credit Zachary Z. Handler)
    Open Box Project (Credit Zachary Z. Handler)
  • Open Box Project (Credit Zachary Z. Handler)
    Open Box Project (Credit Zachary Z. Handler)
  • Open Box Project (Credit Zachary Z. Handler)
    Open Box Project (Credit Zachary Z. Handler)
  • Open Box Project (Credit Zachary Z. Handler)
    Open Box Project (Credit Zachary Z. Handler)
  • Open Box Project (Credit Zachary Z. Handler)
    Open Box Project (Credit Zachary Z. Handler)
  • Open Box Project (Credit Zachary Z. Handler)
    Open Box Project (Credit Zachary Z. Handler)
  • Open Box Project (Credit Zachary Z. Handler)
    Open Box Project (Credit Zachary Z. Handler)
  • Open Box Project (Credit Zachary Z. Handler)
    Open Box Project (Credit Zachary Z. Handler)
  • Open Box Project (Credit Zachary Z. Handler)
    Open Box Project (Credit Zachary Z. Handler)