CHOREOGRAPHY BY MATTHEW WILLIAM ROBINSON Archives - ŻfinMalta https://www.zfinmalta.org/portfolio_page/portfolio-category/choreography-by-matthew-william-robinson/ National Dance Company Thu, 02 Jul 2026 13:48:53 +0000 en-US hourly 1 https://cdn-eu.wpx.onl/zfinmalta/2020/04/cropped-ZFIN_FAVICON-32x32.png CHOREOGRAPHY BY MATTHEW WILLIAM ROBINSON Archives - ŻfinMalta https://www.zfinmalta.org/portfolio_page/portfolio-category/choreography-by-matthew-william-robinson/ 32 32 The Bull, the Princess, and the Hero https://www.zfinmalta.org/portfolio_page/the-bull-the-princess-and-the-hero/ Mon, 15 Jun 2026 11:57:00 +0000 https://www.zfinmalta.org/?post_type=portfolio_page&p=35172 The post The Bull, the Princess, and the Hero appeared first on ŻfinMalta.

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The bull, the princess, and the hero

Choreography by Matthew William Robinson

 

Commissioned for Malta International Arts Festival 2026, as ‘Labyrinth,’ part of a multi-disciplinary double bill ‘Myrgon & Labyrinth.’

Connecting contemporary dance with the visual backdrop of a sand sculpture, this collaboration between Spanish artist Oscar Rodríguez and ŻfinMalta Artistic Director Matthew William Robinson evokes a transitory landscape of myth and movement, inspired by the mythical maze designed by Daedalus to imprison the Minotaur. The dancers of ŻfinMalta interact with the sand sculpture, tracing patterns of curiosity and liberation, altering the sculpture’s form in real time. This transformation becomes part of the choreography – a metaphor for impermanence and metamorphosis. At the intersection of myth and matter, The bull, the princess, and the hero invites both performers and spectators to reconsider space as a living organism. It is an artistic expression that erodes and reforms.

Inspired by the myth of Theseus and the Labyrinth, The Bull, the Princess, and the Hero inhabits a space where love, sacrifice, courage, and abandonment emerge as unstable archetypes, disintegrating and reforming.

As both material and metaphor, sand creates a landscape in flux. As forms erode, new configurations arise, carrying traces of what came before. Bodies gather and disperse, constructing and dissolving images in an endless process of becoming.

Mythologies become a means of reimagining the present. Warnings, desires, and contradictions echo through time, opening space to reconsider ourselves, our choices, and our relationship to the world we encounter.

The Bull, the Princess and the Hero lingers between construction and collapse, erasure and return. Within this shifting terrain, forms continually dissolve and re-emerge, carrying the possibility of transformation.

Production Team

 

Choreography: Matthew William Robinson 
Sand Sculptor: Oscar Rodriguez
Choreographic Assistant: Mario Manara
Costume Designer: Zoe Camilleri
Featuring music by: Caterina Barbieri, Aïsha Devi, Donato Dozzy & Sabla – Flusso IV, Rival Consoles

 

Dancers

 

ALESSANDRO PELLEGRINELLI
ANDREA BIAGIONI
MARTÍ BLANCO ROMEU
MAYA ATTARD
PEARL CALLEJA
Programmers and Agents

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ŻfinMalta National Dance Company Repertoire Nation Matthew William Robinson

Upcoming performance dates

22nd, 23rd, & 24th May: as part of ‘Unfold,’ at Teatru Manoel
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Nation

Choreography by Matthew William Robinson

NATION is a groundbreaking artistic collaboration between ŻfinMalta Artistic Director Matthew William Robinson and Azzopardi Studio. In a stark landscape a collection of lost souls ferociously searches for what will come after the end. Haunting and razor-sharp, NATION swerves between the intimate and the vast, the delicate and the brutal. 

 

 

Premiering as part of Unfold

22/23/24 May 2026 

Teatru Manoel, Valletta 

 

BORDER/NATION

A choreographic diptych created by ŻfinMalta Artistic Director Matthew William Robinson.

 

How do we confront the end? BORDER/NATION considers our response to the crumbling systems that surround us, and our human response to death and decay. Is our collective grief shaping our collective future?

 

Each work draws together an international team of artists, working across mediums and forms. Expect a hyper-physical experience that pulls to the extremes. An emotional journey divided in two, that will unfold over the season.

 

Production Team

 

Choreography: Matthew William Robinson 
Costume design: Azzopardi Studio 
Music: Alexander Comana 
Set Design: Tom Van Malderen
Props: Jon Banthorpe 
Light design: Dali Aguerbi 
Programmers and Agents

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ŻfinMalta National Dance Company Repertoire Border Mathew William Robinson

Upcoming performance dates

4th October, Notte Bianca, Chamber of Commerce, Valletta
20/21/22 February, ŻfinDays, Valletta Campus Theatre

Choreography by Matthew William Robinson

 

BORDER, reflects on the lines we draw between us, that divide us and sustain us. Like rope binding and fraying, bodies combine and fracture, revealing an abyss of repetitive memories and ritual. BORDER explores a return to tradition in response to decay, a search for definition guided by a fear of the future.

 

BORDER is commissioned by Festivals Malta as part of Notte Bianca 2025.

 

Production Team

 

Choreography: Matthew William Robinson 
Costume Design: Holly Knowles 
Light Design: Dali Aguerbi 
Set Design: Jon Banthorpe
Duration: 24 minutes

BORDER/NATION

A choreographic diptych created by ŻfinMalta Artistic Director Matthew William Robinson. How do we confront the end? BORDER/NATION considers our response to the crumbling systems that surround us, and our human response to death and decay. Is our collective grief shaping our collective future? Each work draws together an international team of artists, working across mediums and forms. Expect a hyper-physical experience that pulls to the extremes. An emotional journey divided in two, that will unfold over the season.

Programmers and Agents

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