07/03/2026
WELCOMING OUR NEW SALT2 ARTISTIC DIRECTOR | Lindsey Matheis Lindsey Matheis 🤭🧂✨
We are incredibly excited to officially share the appointment of Lindsey Matheis as the Artistic Director for SALT2. She is an incredible voice within the contemporary dance landscape and we look forward to her vision coming to life this season. 🎉💐
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Lindsey Matheis (b. 1989) is a movement director, choreographer, and multidisciplinary artist working between New York City and Salt Lake City. Her practice moves fluidly between contemporary dance, opera, immersive theatre, film, and commercial work, creating physically driven narratives where movement reveals what language cannot. Drawing from nearly two decades as a performer, she approaches directing through the body first, using choreography to shape character, atmosphere, and emotional architecture.
As a choreographer, Matheis has created work for SALT Contemporary Dance, Missouri Contemporary Ballet, Northwest Dance Project, 12x12, Brigham Young University’s Contemporary Dance Theater, Chop Shop, Men in Dance, and the Experimental Film Festival. She also founded and produced three independent dance festivals in Portland, Oregon, dedicated to supporting emerging choreographers and expanding opportunities for new artistic voices.
Matheis began her performing career with Northwest Dance Project before joining BODYTRAFFIC and later spending five years with Punchdrunk’s Sleep No More. She served as rehearsal director for BODYTRAFFIC post-pandemic, dance captain for Washington National Opera, and performer for Opera Omaha, Opera Philadelphia, LA Opera, the Metropolitan Opera, and Washington National Opera. Choreographers she has worked with include Danielle Agami, Baye & Asa, Anton Lachky, Barak Marshall, Alan Lucien Øyen, Crystal Pite, Arthur Pita, Ihsan Rustem, Hofesh Shechter, and Didy Veldman, amongst others. Matheis has performed internationally in venues ranging from the Hollywood Bowl to The Joyce to the Bolshoi Theatre.
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