A N D R EA B A L Z O L A
Born in
He has written several stage plays of which the
following have been performed: “Con tatto” (directed by Natalia Casorati, a “Mosaico”-production);
“Il dolore”
(Pain) (based on a work by M. Duras, directed by
Mauro Avogadro, with Marisa Fabbri, a production of
the Teatro Stabile di
Turin); “Democrazia”
(Lia e Rachele) (directed
by Claudio Longhi, supervised by Luca Ronconi, with Marisa Fabbri, a
production of the Teatro di
Roma); ”Storie Mandaliche” A
dramaturgical hypertext (cybernarration and stage
direction: Giacomo Verde, a production of Zonegemma).
He has published four collections of poems and one
volume of stories entitled “Storie di pittori” (Stories of
painters) (Fógola, 2002
Three of the screen plays in which he collaborated were realized by financial grants from the Italian
government
He has directed his own short films and multimedia
works for the Italian RAI-TV and for a
Scandinavian television station, for the C. r.u.t.
(“The regional university center of the Theatre”),
for the “Teatro Stabile” and for the “Unione Culturale” of
From 1999 to 2003 he gave experimental courses, created by
himself, of multimedia Arts at the “Accademia di Belle Arti” of
He has given courses at the universities of
He has collaborated with theatre periodicals such as “Sipario”, “Il castello di Elisnore”, “Hystrio”, with webzines “Ateatro”
and “Zoooom”,
and with the catalogues for
events such as “RiccioneTTVV” and “Invideo-Triennale di Milano”.
He is the author of numerous theoretical publications,
among others “La nuova
scena elettronica” (Rosenberg
& Sellier, Turin 1994). Some of his texts have
been published in anthologies of the multimedia performance such as “Elettroshock” “30
anni di video in Italia” (Castelvecchi, Roma 2000) and Digital Performance” (Anomos,
In 2004 will be published his volume of “Arti multimediali digitali” (Garzanti), written in collaboration with Anna Maria Monteverdi.
He lives and works in
Andrea Balzola
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