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