When one man can command the intensity of the theatrical experience just by flexing his sinewey muscles, we must find ourselves at the Parnassian peak of physical theater.
Damo Bullen – Mumble Theatre, Edinburgh 2014
Nicola Pianzola is just that man.
Performer, drammaturgo, video maker e pedagogo teatrale
Born in Novara in 1977, he graduated from the Department of Arts, Music, and Performance at the University of Bologna, with a Master’s in Show Buisness Management, and trained at the Nouveau Cirque School in Bologna. He co-founded Instabili Vaganti in 2004, where he works to this day as an actor and playwright.
Pianzola is internationally known for the award-winning performance MADE IN ILVA, which has had over 300 shows in four languages across 20 countries, and was nominated for the Total Theatre Award at the Edinburgh Festival in 2014.
He is the author of The Global City (2019), a performance co-produced by the National Theatre of Genoa and the FIDAE Festival in Uruguay, in which he plays the lead role. He received the Le Arti per la Vita Award for his work with differently-abled actors.
He has taught theater and given lectures at the Grotowski Institute in Wroclaw, the University of Kent, Babes-Bolyai University in Romania, Kyungsung University in South Korea, UNAM and ENAT in Mexico City, the University of Chile, the Shanghai Theatre Academy, and the National School of Drama in New Delhi.