Matthew Powell is from Shepherdstown, West Virginia, and at the age of sixteen he relocated from Shepherdstown, West Virginia to New York City to train on scholarship at the School of American Ballet, the official school of the New York City Ballet.
After two years of training at SAB, Matthew headed west to dance with the Pacific Northwest Ballet. While dancing with PNB, he performed soloist roles and toured worldwide. In 2001, Matthew joined the Kansas City Ballet, where he danced soloist and principal roles in both classical and contemporary ballets. In addition to dancing, Matthew was a faculty member with the Kansas City Ballet School. As a guest artist, he has performed as a solo dancer with the San Francisco Opera, with the Metropolitan Ballet of Minneapolis, and with many other companies and schools across the country. In 2006, he was awarded one of five fellowship grants given nationwide from the New York Choreographic Institute for the creation of a new work, titled “Resonant Dances.”
Most recently, Matthew has been cast in the international tour of the classic Arthur Laurents‐Stephen Sondheim‐Leonard Bernstein musical West Side Story.