Matt Koziuk
Clogging
Matt Koziuk hails from Jacksonville, Florida, and is a graduate of Mars Hill University in North Carolina. His clogging career spans over 30 years. He has had the honor of working closely with and befriending many of the top names in the clogging industry. Matt holds a Bachelor of Arts Degree in History and is an alumnus of the now 28 time National Champions, the Bailey Mountain Cloggers, based out of Mars Hill University. During his tenure with Bailey Mountain, he toured the East Coast and participated in several cultural exchange programs, performing throughout Europe in 1997 and again in 2000, and helped the team earn 5 of their National Titles over the course of his time there. After college, Matt served as co-director of the Electric Rhythm Cloggers based out of Jacksonville, Florida, and helped guide them to winning two State of Florida Championships and multiple Regional accolades throughout the 2000s. During the 2010s, Matt served as team Captain of the Carolina Fusion Cloggers, a semi-professional competition clogging troupe based out of central North Carolina. He helped secure three additional National Championship honors when Fusion won Overall Traditional Team at the 2017 CCA Showdown of Champions, and overall Freestyle Team of 2018 and 2019 at the Untied Clogging Association’s World Championships.
Matt is grateful to have the opportunity and privilege to teach at venues large and small - from intimate one-room workshops and master classes to conventions with hundreds of people in attendance, both regionally as well as nationally and globally. In addition to attending and teaching these workshops, Matt is also a certified competition judge in multiple competition sanctioning organizations, eager to share his knowledge and experience (and be thoroughly entertained!) to further enrich and promote competitive and recreational clogging - in both the traditional and contemporary styles - throughout the country. He has been fortunate enough to judge numerous local high school talent pageants in the greater Jacksonville area over the last ten years.
Matt is incredibly proud to have worked with his amazingly talented clogging students at Dance Express in nearby Fleming Island, Florida, and has recently joined the Wehner’s School of the Arts family in 2020.
When not spending quality time with his wife enjoying good food, good wine, and good company with friends, he’s traveling regularly to attend and teach workshops or judge clogging and dance competitions up and down the Eastern Seaboard.