Corpo Imago

Imago is a “visually stunning, emotionally resonant” (Ed Fest Mag) contemporary aerial dance duet.

Winner of a Best Production award at the 2025 Edinburgh Festival Fringe, the work explores the liminal space between holding on and letting go of another.Critics have praised it as “an incredibly impressive feat of acrobatics, staging, and sound design” (Fest), “a beautifully executed and contemplative experience” (Edinburgh Festival for Kids), and “a thoughtful and beautiful take on circus and aerial skills” (Voice Mag).“Imago carries you with it, skyward… somewhere beyond words.” — Three Weeks.

Direction and Choreography: Gabrielle Martin + Jeremiah Hughes

At the crossroads of circus, dance, and visual theatre, Corpo Imago confronts the myth of individual destiny, revealing instead a vast ecology where humans are fragile, complicit,and entangled with more-than-human forces. It emerged from years of backstage movement research between Gabrielle Martin and Jeremiah Hughes, while they were performing as a principal characters with Cirque du Soleil’s TORUK, and has become a space to pursue circus’ dramaturgical possibilities alongside the cathartic potential of dance.

Aerial and Dance Artists: Jeremiah Hughes + Brenna Metzmeier

Jeremiah Hughes is a dynamic physical performer who places great importance on storytelling in his craft. He trained and competed extensively with the Canadian Dance Company (Toronto) before studying at the Randolph College for the Performing Arts (Toronto). He was a featured soloist on So You Think You Can Dance (2007) and So You Think You Can Dance Canada (2008), and joined the competitive internship program at the Broadway Dance Center (NYC) in 2008. Jeremiah has performed with artists such as Bruno Mars, Meatloaf, and Taylor Swift, and in large-scale shows such as: PEEPSHOW, JUBILEE!, Britain’s Got Talent, Franco Dragone’s LE REVE and Cirque du Soleil’s Viva ELVIS. From 2015-2019, he toured as dance captain and the lead male character of Ralu in Cirque Du Soleil’s TORUK - The First Flight. Jeremiah is co-choreographer on all of Copro Imago's projects as well as a practicing actor working in film and television.

Brenna Metzmeier is a 28 year old multidisciplinary artist living in Vancouver BC. She is originally from Terrace BC, but completed her formal training at the Victoria Academy of Ballet, receiving a diploma in 2016. She has had the opportunity to work with Sawdust Collective, Pi Theatre, The Banff Dance Company, Inverso Productions, Vision Impure, Opera Box, State of Underdress, Little Chamber Music, Corporeal Imago, Wen Wei Dance, Edmonton Opera, Action at a Distance, Belle Spirale and is a founding member of the dance company CAMP. In CAMP she has co-created and produced several full length dance shows and been selected for multiple choreographic commissions. She has also been developing her own interdisciplinary solo work, and has performed the first iterations of her solo, I'I, at the Irish Aerial Creation Centre, The Dance Centre, through their 12 Minute Max programming, and at The Dance Deck.

Composer: Nicolas Bernier

Nicolas Bernier is a composer, artist, producer and professor of sonic arts at Université de Montréal. His work has been widely recognized, receiving over twenty distinctions in prestigious competitions in both music and contemporary art. His sound performance frequencies (a) earned him the Golden Nica in 2013 from Ars Electronica, one of the highest international honors in the field of digital arts.

Over the last two decades, he scored numerous theatre plays, modern dance pieces, visual arts exhibitions and animation films.

He has released nearly fifty albums, both solo and collaborative, on notable labels including LINE (USA), Crónica (Portugal), leerraum (Switzerland), Home Normal (UK/Japan), and empreintes DIGITALes (Canada). His debut solo album received the 2010 Prix Opus for Album of the Year. In 2024, his modular synthesizer solo, Visions couleurs, was among the best albums on CDM: Create Digital Music, one of the leading platforms dedicated to music and technology.His sound performances and installations have been presented worldwide at leading institutions such as Ars Electronica (Austria), Sónar (Spain), Mutek (Canada), DotMov Festival (Japan), L.E.V (Spain), ZKM (Germany), and Transmediale (Germany).

In 2019, he published Sur le diapason with Les Presses du réel (Paris), a book that brings to a close the frequencies series of works. That same year, his audiovisual object structures infinies was nominated and exhibited in London as part of the Aesthetica Art Prize. His landmark installation frequencies (light quanta) is currently exhibited until september 2026 at ZKM | Center for Art and Media in Germany.At the core of his practice are questions on the performativity of the electronic sound — a body of work shaped by collaborations with major artists across disciplines: visual arts (Manon De Pauw, Isabelle Hayeur, Jonathan Villeneuve), dance (Danièle Desnoyers, Ginette Laurin, Pierre-Marc Ouellette, Royal Winnipeg Ballet), theatre (Denis Marleau, Stéphanie Jasmin, Mark Lawes), animation film (Marie-Hélène Turcotte), and poetry (Fortner Anderson). In 2022, he collaborated with Beans, founder of the avant-rap group Anti-Pop Consortium. The result of this collaboration can be heard on the album science_fiction, described as «a uniquely surreal sound collage» by the UK-based magazine Electronic Sound.Since 2016, he has been deeply engaged in the development of ensemble-based electronic music through Ensemble d’oscillateurs, a project that merges research-creation and pedagogy. The ensemble explores new approaches to score writing and performance techniques in electronic music; fosters contemporary creation by collaborating with about fifteen emerging and established artists (including Hervé Birolini, Cat Hope, Candas Sisman); interprets early electronic music repertoire by pioneers such as Pauline Oliveros and Else Marie Pade; and has released a trilogy of albums on the US-based LINE label. The ensemble has performed at major festivals including Sight & Sound, Akousma, and Mutek. It also supports research-creation initiatives such as a project on the aesthetics of the sine wave (2021–2024) and another on performative notation (2024–2027). In 2020, alongside colleagues at the Université de Montréal, he co-founded the highly active research collective Laboratoire formes • ondes: https://lfo-lab.ca

Lighting Designer: Sophie Tang

Sophie Tang is an award-winning lighting and set designer working in Theatre, Opera and Dance. She has worked with companies including Stratford Festival, Shaw Festival, Electric Company Theatre, Vancouver Opera, Pacific Opera, Theatre Calgary, Artsclub Theatre, Bard on the Beach, Citadel Theatre, Canadian Stage, Theatre Replacement and so on. Selected credits: The Lehman Trilogy (Theatre Calgary); Rez Sisters (Stratford Festival); The Apple Cart (Shaw Festival); Jersey Boys, Legend of Georgia McBride, 12 dates of Christmas, The Orchard (Artsclub Theatre); Three Musketeers (Citadel Theatre x Artsclub Theatre); 9 to 5 (Citadel Theatre); Twelfth Night, Henry V, Romeo and Juliet, Harlem Duet (Bard on the Beach); Michel(le), S’effondrent Les Videoclubs (Théâtre la Seizième); Undeveloped Sound (Electric Company Theatre); Choir Boy (Canadian stage and Artsclub); The Pearl Fishers , A Midsummer Night’s Dream (Vancouver Opera). Awards: Two-time Jessie Award Winner, three times Jessie Award Nominee, one time Sterling Award Nominee.