Matteo, an American dancer and choreographer who specialized in Spanish dance and became an authority on ethnic dance forms, died March 24 in Englewood, N.J. He was 92.

He died of complications of a stroke at the Lillian Booth Actors Home, where he had moved from Manhattan in 2008, said his great-niece Gwendolyn Dunaif.

Born Matteo Marcellus Vittucci, Matteo used only his first name professionally. A lean and strong performer, he was also a teacher, choreographer and scholar in a highly versatile career that reached a wide audience after he and Carola Goya, another American, formed the Spanish dance team of Goya and Matteo in 1954. They married in 1974, and Goya died in 1994.

The couple brought traditional dance forms from throughout the world — including Japan and India — to dance audiences and students in the United States for more than 30 years. They taught annually and performed regularly at the Jacob’s Pillow Dance Festival in Becket, Mass., for many years.

Teaching at the High School of Performing Arts in Manhattan when it was established in the 1950s, Matteo introduced ethnic dance forms to the curriculum, and many of his graduates joined the Indo-American Dance Company, which he founded with Goya. Matteo also wrote a highly praised text, “The Language of Spanish Dance: A Dictionary and Reference Manual.”