Greville Matthews is an ex gymnast and dancer turned circus performer. He is a graduate of The Circus Space Degree program. Where he specialised in aerial straps focusing on integrating comedy. Other aerial skills include tissu, corde lisse, static trapeze, bungee and harness work. Ground based skills include acrobatics, trampolining, theatre, dance (contemporary, contact and release) as well as stilt walking and magic.
Work credits include:
- Aerial and acrobatic co-ordinator for The Three Musketeers Musical - taught actors rope descents and how to climb set safely. Rose Theatre, Kingston
- Cabarets and burlesque performances - straps and magic acts. Venues in and around London
- From The Inky Deep - straps, acrobatics, dance and theatre. Jackson's Lane Theatre, London and Rochester Castle Moat;
- Peter Pan Pantomime - slapstick acrobatics, acting (understudied Smee), dancing and singing. Assembly Hall Theatre, Tunbridge Wells
- Puck in Benjamin Britten’s opera Midsummer Night’s Dream - straps, tissue, acting and dance. Longborough Opera House
- Lovepet - vertical dance and straps. London and Burgos, Spain (part of international vertical dance competition)
- ITV's X-Factor - tissu in London
- Westfield shopping centre advert shoot - double point wirework. London
- Peter Pan Pantomime - rope, acrobatics, dance and acting. Bradford Alhambra
- Sorciere Halloween show – straps. Universal Studios Osaka, Japan for The Generating Company
- Off The Wall – straps, acrobatics and dance. For the reopening of The South Bank Centre, London. Directed by Liam Steel and Rob Tannion of Stan Won’t Dance.
- Three short films with John-Paul Zaccarini (Company FZ) – dance and acrobatics. London
- Lord of the Rings musical – straps research and development with Peter Darling. London
Greville Matthew Showreel 2011 from Greville Matthews on Vimeo.
