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Jérémie Niel worked on a wide range of artistic projects before founding his own company, Pétrus, in 2005. The first show he created with the company was La campagne (The Country), by British playwright Martin Crimp. Since then he has pursued a rigorous formal investigation into the spectator’s sensory responses. Some 15 years later, he remounted Crimp’s strange and disturbing play, which laid the foundations of his own aesthetic language.
“With La campagne, I discovered the fog that I love so much in my shows. I discovered doubt. I discovered the complexity of the unspoken. I discovered subdued lighting. I discovered introverted acting. I discovered everything, in fact, with this play.”
— Jérémie Niel
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Since his childhood, Jérémie Niel has been immersed in theater. He studied science, history and political science before entering the Conservatoire d'art dramatique de Montréal to study directing. In 2005, he founded his company, Pétrus. Through his works at the crossroads of theater, dance, music and visual arts, he unfolds hypnotic environments that appeal directly to the senses of the spectator.
Attracted to a multitude of forms and mediums, he has collaborated with the dance company La 2e Porte à Gauche as well as with the music groups We are Wolves and Dear Criminals. Since 2016, he has also been a member of the associate artist committee at Théâtre de Quat'Sous.
Baignant dans le théâtre depuis son enfance, Jérémie Niel a étudié les sciences, l’histoire, les sciences politiques avant d’entrer au Conservatoire d’art dramatique de Montréal pour y suivre une formation de mise en scène. Il fonde en 2005 sa compagnie, Pétrus. À travers ses mises en scène au croisement du théâtre, de la danse, de la musique et des arts visuels, il déploie des univers hypnotiques qui s’adressent directement à la sensorialité du spectateur.
Attiré par une multitude de formes et de médiums, il a collaboré avec la compagnie de danse La 2e Porte à Gauche ainsi qu’avec les groupes de musique We are Wolves et Dear Criminals. Depuis 2016, il fait également partie du comité d’artistes associés au Théâtre de Quat’Sous.
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