Scores/texts from works:
No-How Generator (2019) - Score LINK
Soft Power Generator II (2017) - Score PDF
Group Study (2015) - Score PDF
17 Manifestos Manifested (2015) - Shout Poem PDF
17 Manifestos Manifested (2015) - Manifestos PDF
Dances With Purpose (2012) - Klingon script with English translation PDF
This is it (2011) - Song lyrics PDF
1998 (2008) - Script PDF
Artistic Doctorate:
To date, my most extensive piece of writing about my work is the written part of my PhD thesis:
No-How Generator: an artistic investigation of the event of choreographic performance as a site of embodied knowledge-generation (2021) LINK
You can also explore of this body of research at nohowgenerator.com
You can also read my journal article giving a shorter overview of this body of research:
The back and forth of no-how generating: An orientation to practising choreography and/as knowledge-generation (2025), in Choreographic Practices LINK
Other writings about works/practice:
Rehearsing Exits: Dancing (at) the end (2026) Ashwell, C., Protopapa, E. & Sperling, M., in Performance Research - reflections from my perspective as collaborating performer in Seke Chimutengwende's The Last Quartet, co-written with two fellow collaborators LINK
Negotiating Time: Can the temporary leave a trace? (2021) - in the Theatrum Mundi publication ‘Embodying Otherness’, edited by Karimnia, E. & Koustourou, F. LINK PDF
On the body as an archive in For Now and Table of Contents (2018) - a talk for the panel discussion ‘Body as Archive’ at Whitechapel Gallery PDF
The Warburg Institute and Siobhan Davies Dance in conversation (2017) Davies, S., Sperling, M., Eckardt, P., Hönes, H.C., Johnson, C., Marchard, E., Müller, J.v., Schnitzlein, B., in the Siobhan Davies Dance catalogue publication accompanying the performance installation material/ rearranged/ to/ be, which Loop Atlas was part of. Catalogue available from Siobhan Davies Studios LINK
On the experience of working as an artist on scientific research - a talk for the event ‘Taking apart togetherness: the art and science of being a group’ at Siobhan Davies Studios (2016) PDF
On the documentary film ‘My name is Janez Jansa’, a provocation for Independent Dance’s festival ‘What Remains’ (2016) PDF
Answer the Question. What are your/the tools of training? (2016) Duke, B., Sperling, M., Kapsali, M., in Theatre, Dance and Performance Training LINK
Who Cares? Dance in the Gallery & Museum (2015), interview on Effective Dance: healing procedure for a German Expressionist object in book edited by Wookey, S., published by Siobhan Davies Dance LINK
Introduction, Table of Contents: Memory and Presence (2014), Davies, S., Buckley, A., Kaski, H., Krische, R., Morrissey, C., Sperling, M., in the Siobhan Davies Dance catalogue publication accompanying the performance installation Table of Contents, which For Now was part of. Catalogue available from Siobhan Davies Studios LINK
On The Movers - from programme for 'Charming for the Revolution: A Congress for Gender Talents and Wildness', Tate Modern (2013) PDF
On performing To hand in the exhibition 'Body & Void' at Henry Moore Foundation (2014) PDF
Scientific Papers
As a co-investigator on interdisciplinary dance-neuroscience research collaborations including NEUROLIVE and Group Study, I am a co-author of several scientific papers emerging from these projects:
Delta-band inter-brain synchrony reflects collective audience engagement with live dance performances (2025) Rai, L., Lee, H., Becke, E., Trenado, C., Abad-Hernando, S., Sperling, M., Vidaurre, D., Wald-Fuhrmann, M., Richardson, D., Ward, J. & Orgs, G., in iScience LINK
Engaged and confused: Aesthetic appreciation of live and screened contemporary dance (2025) Lee, H., Ashwell, C., Sperling, M., Rai, L. & Orgs, G., in Psychology of Aesthetics, Creativity & Arts LINK
Snakeskin in the Wild: A Multi-Sensor Framework for Performance Art: A Case Study in Multimodal Sensor Synchronization (2025) Febbo, M., Forth, J., Rai, L., Lee, H., Arthuis, A., Abad Hernando, S., Richardson, D.C., Sperling, M., Orgs, G. & Ward, J.A., in UbiComp Companion ‘25 LINK
Movement synchrony among dance performers predicts brain synchrony among dance spectators (2024) Orgs, G., Vicary, S., Sperling, M., Richardson, D. & Williams, A., in Scientific Reports LINK
The Choreography of Group Affiliation (2018) Zimmermann, J.v., Vicary, S., Sperling, M., Orgs, G. & Richardson, D.C., in Topics in Cognitive Science LINK
Joint action aesthetics (2017) Vicary, S., Sperling, M., Zimmermann, J.v., Richardson, D.C. & Orgs, G., in PLoS ONE LINK
Interviews:
NEUROLIVE: An interdisciplinary study of liveness with Guido Orgs and Matthias Sperling (2025) ResDance Podcast by Gemma Harman LINK
PETER, dance with… Matthias Sperling (2025) Podcast by Peter Mills LINK
‘It’s like collective daydreaming’: the giant study showing how dancing affects our brains (2024) - The Guardian article by Lyndsey Winship on NEUROLIVE and Readings of what was never written, interviewing Matthias Sperling and Guido Orgs LINK
Matthias Sperling on No-How Generator and Choreography (2022) - Dance Art Journal interview by Maxine Flasher-Duzgunes LINK
Matthias Sperling and Daniel Richardson on Synchrony (2021) Unseen Being Podcast by Kinda Studios LINK
Matthias Sperling on Walking Piece (2012) Interview on Just Wandering blog by Rachel Gildea LINK
Matthias Sperling and Vicky Malin on This is it (2011) Interview on Southbank Centre Blog by Alexandrina Hemsley PDF
Matthias Sperling Q&A on Duet, Duet (2010) Interview with londondance.com PDF
Matthias Sperling on Minutes/The Collection (2009) Interview with Dance UK PDF
Andréya Ouamba & Matthias Sperling on Diplomacy II (2009) Interview with Eckhard Thiemann PDF