Matthias Bardoula began his training at the Université d'Artois in Arras with a degree in "Performing Arts". During this time, he directed several plays presented at student theater festivals. His plays were initially theatrical, but Matthias soon turned to a more performative style in which the intimate, the real and the represented confront and merge. His theatrical performance ( ) led him to question the relationship between spectator-actor, spectator-viewed, while drawing inspiration from popular culture and phenomena.
In 2014, Matthias enrolled in the "Assistant to Stage Direction" Master's program at the University of Poitiers and took part in the choreographic research workshop supervised by Isabelle Lamothe. He will then work under the direction of choreographers Emmanuelle Huynh for Ouverture(s), Gaëlle Bourges for Brow to brow and Mickaël Phelippeau for 22, three pieces presented at the "À Corps" festival in Poitiers. In 2016, he joined Gaëlle Bourges' team as a dancer for the show Warding off fear.
In 2017, he founded the Compagnie Apparaître, where he works as a director and performer. Intimacy and his relationship with popular phenomena are always at the heart of his reflections, as his first projects can testify: the Queen Icarus saga, a questioning of the Icarus myth, or the different versions of the show t...u., a show about separation inspired by the career of the Russian pop-music group t.A.T.u.
