NICOLA PIANZOLA
In Residence:
October 5 – 16, 2022
Discipline:
Performer
Country:
Italy
About
He is a performer. He was born in 1977 in Novara, Italy. He graduated at the University of Bologna – Department of music and performance and he got a master degree in theatre management. He has studied physical theatre graduating at the Nouveau Cirque school of Bologna and Contemporary Circus School in Turin. He is currently performer in all the productions of Instabili Vaganti theatre company. He has created and led the international theatre project LENZ supported by Theater Fabrik Sachesn of Leipzig, Old Vic theatre of London, International Shakespeare festival of Yerevan. He has led workshops within the Atelier of Grotowski Institute in Wroclaw, the International Workshop Festival, the BIPAF International Festival, the Busan theatre summer camp, in S. Korea; the VIII° and IX° International meeting of national Drama schools in Mexico, Spectrum Festival workshop in Austria and the IIFUT International Iranian Festival of University theatre.
He has won several national and international awards as a performer of the solo show MADE IN ILVA including the nomination at the total theatre awards at the Edinburgh Fringe 2014. He collaborates with the University of Bologna, Department of music and performance where he gives workshops, work demonstrations, lectures and film screenings about physical theatre. He won the DAMS Award for his research and experience in theatre with actors with handicaps. He collaborates with Hystrio theatre magazine writing articles in Teatromondo and with fattiditeatro theatre webzine where he is editor of Instabili Vaganti on tour a section on the international theatre projects led in different countries by his theatre company
WORK
The Shadow of Dante
Co production Italy - Indonesia
Theatre and Dance performance, 2022
Inspired by The Divine Comedy by Dante Alighieri
Direction
Anna Dora Dorno
Multilingual dramaturgy Anna Dora Dorno, Nicola Pianzola
Performers Nicola Pianzola, Made Suteja, Kadek Budi Setiawan
Original Music: Rosemainy Buang, Riccardo Nanni
Video: Anna Dora Dorno, Nicola Pianzola
Lights: Mattia Bagnoli
In co production with:
Istituto Italiano di cultura in Jakarta, Yayasan Bali Purnati
The project was born from a lremote collaboration with the Balinese artists Made Suteja, performer of Topeng, traditional masked dance typical of Bali, and Kadek Budi Setiawan, performer of Wayang Kulit, the classic shadow puppet theater, which in 2021 led to the creation of a 7-episode web series entitled VIDEODANTE # Indonesia, on the occasion of the 700th anniversary of the death of the Preat poet. The Shadow of Dante brings part of this work to the stage through an innovative experimentation that combines video projections and shadow theater, and which creates the stage design of the opera, in which the performers Nicola Pianzola and Made Suteja narrate, through ritual actions and continuous changes of characters, sometimes in mask, at other times as pure shadows, the otherworldly journey of the Supreme Poet. The show explores different artistic languages: from masked dance to contemporary physical theater, from classical shadow theater to video art and experimental cinema, from traditional Indonesian music to electronic and contemporary music, to ferry the viewer into the evocative scenarios evoked by Dante during his journey. The multilingual text intertwines fragments of the Divine Comedy (Italian and Old English) with epic fragments of the Indonesian and Eastern literary tradition, building a bridge between two ancient cultures so rich in cultural traditions: the Italian and the Balinese.
