Matthias Bardoula first studied at the University of Artois in Arras, where he earned a bachelor's degree in performing arts. During this time, he directed several productions that were presented at student theater festivals. The plays were initially theatrical, but Matthias quickly turned to a more performative style of theater in which intimacy, authenticity, and representation confront and merge with one another. His theatrical performance ( ) led him to explore the relationship between spectator and actor, viewer and viewed, while drawing inspiration from popular culture and phenomena.
In 2014, Matthias enrolled in a Master's degree in "Assistant Director" at the University of Poitiers and participated in the choreographic research workshop supervised by Isabelle Lamothe. He then worked under the direction of choreographers Emmanuelle Huynh for Ouverture(s) and Gaëlle Bourges for Front contre front , 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 Conjurer la peur.
In 2017, he founded the Compagnie Apparaître, where he works as a director and performer. Intimacy and its relationship to popular phenomena are always at the heart of his reflections, as evidenced by his early projects: the Queen Icarus saga, which questions the myth of Icarus, and 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.
