Matthew Harding (born September 27, 1976) is an American traveler, video game designer, and Internet celebrity who is known as Dancing Matt, for his viral videos that show him dancing in front of landmarks and street scenes in various international locations.
Harding later worked as an editor for GameWeek Magazine in Wilton, Connecticut, and then as a software developer for Activision in Santa Monica, California and then Brisbane, Queensland.
He quit his job and began traveling, leading to the production of his first video, which was uploaded to YouTube in July 2006.
The background music in the video is the song "Sweet Lullaby Dancing Remix" by Deep Forest.
Therefore, as of the filming of Dancing 2016, Matt had visited approximately 99 countries, 21 states, Washington, DC, Guam, Puerto Rico, 4 Canadian provinces, and Antarctica.