Davide Giovanzana is an Italian and Swiss theatre director, theatre pedagogue and researcher based in Helsinki, Finland. He has a strong background in physical theatre, mask and object theatre. His first education was in painting. He has been working in several countries with different theatres ad theatre academies. He has been living in Switzerland, Belgium, Italy, USA and Finland. His last book Performing Violence published by Routledge reconsidered the potential and limits of the representation of violence on stage. He is Honorary Professor of the Latvian Culture Academy, he has been visiting professor of artistic research at the Theatre Academy of Helsinki and he is currently university lecturer in acting at Tampere University.
His current research, Digital Presence; Dis-Connected Spaces (embodied performing practices in a digital/virtual era), examines to what extend digital technologies transform theatre. Rather than perceiving technology as an external instrument to be used, this research reverses the assumption and consider the performer, the user, the spectator as the extension of the digital platforms.
His current research, Digital Presence; Dis-Connected Spaces (embodied performing practices in a digital/virtual era), examines to what extend digital technologies transform theatre. Rather than perceiving technology as an external instrument to be used, this research reverses the assumption and consider the performer, the user, the spectator as the extension of the digital platforms.