From Broadway levels to worldwide arenas, Mattie Love’s dancing is electrifying. She has an uncanny capacity to maneuver by choreography fluidly however with punchy accents and a uncooked, earthy high quality. Though having such a particular fashion of shifting might need intimidated her at first, it’s change into her superpower, main her into among the most coveted gigs, together with performing as Madonna’s doppelgänger in her Celebration Tour.
Present undertaking: Madonna’s The Celebration Tour
Age: 30
Hometown: Layton, Utah
Coaching: Dance Impressions (Farmington, Utah), New York Metropolis Dance Alliance, Marymount Manhattan Faculty
Accolades: Chita Rivera Award for Excellent Dancer in a Broadway Present, for Bob Fosse’s DANCIN’
Inspiring others: Andy Pellick vividly remembers noticing Love’s “particular sauce” when she was round 12 years outdated taking his jazz class at NYCDA. Over time since, when engaged on choreography “she provides you what you didn’t know you needed,” he says. “She evokes a choreographer or a instructor or one other dancer by doing strikes in a method that you just didn’t even know was attainable. She’s in a position to be a muse for lots of people, myself included.”
Swing success: Love was an ensemble dancer within the nationwide tour of Depraved earlier than the pandemic shutdown, and when the present returned, she rejoined as a swing. “The extra tracks I realized, it was truly simpler to recollect all of them, as a result of I may perceive the place everybody was at any given time,” she says. “Swinging virtually looks like an out-of-body expertise. I can see issues in gradual movement.”
Dancin’ desires: Love gained a Chita Rivera Award for final yr’s Broadway run of Bob Fosse’s DANCIN’. “That present is the dancer’s dream,” she says. “It’s so visceral but additionally nuanced, and it captured all of the essences of what I need to be and painting.” She additionally liked her castmates. “It’s a recreation changer once you like everybody you’re employed with and there’s a actual camaraderie. That’s the primary present the place I totally received to be myself. All of us did.”
Exploring the world: When Love joined Madonna’s world tour—at the moment operating by April, with 79 stops throughout Europe and North America—it took time to get used to the schedule, which generally contains rehearsals till 2 or 3 am. (The choreography is credited to a who’s who of inventive minds, together with (LA)HORDE, Valeree Younger, Matt Cady, Damien Jalet, Sidi Larbi Cherkaoui, Mecnun Giasar, Megan Lawson, and Nicolas Huchard.) Now that she’s in control, she takes full benefit of immersing herself in new cultures on tour. “I like to go to health studios, and I’ve been taking lessons in several languages,” she says. “I’m additionally very eager about physique language, so it’s been fascinating to take a seat in espresso outlets and study from the folks in entrance of me.”
Greater than garments: Love paperwork her funky, enjoyable private fashion on social media, and she or he’s discovered consolation in utilizing vogue as one other mode of expressing herself. She’s eager about ultimately bringing a few of that sensibility into costume design.
Rising and trusting: “Dance has saved me many instances, gotten me by many heartbreaks,” says Love. “I’m now discovering my voice extra. I do know I’ve issues to supply, and I discover that they’re being obtained. I’m trusting that though I’ll not all the time really feel like I slot in, I do know that I belong.”
