Confront the aesthetics and ethics of staged violence in Sublime Violence, a thought-provoking MA-level workshop at Tampere University (19–29 January 2026), led by Davide Giovanzana and featuring expert guidance from intimacy coordinator Anastasia Trizna. This course invites you to critically and physically engage with violence in performance—its dramaturgy, embodiment, and impact on spectatorship.

Title of course: Sublime Violence

Teaching period: 19-29 January 2026 at Näty, Tampere University, Finland

Teacher: Davide Giovanzana

ECTS: 4

Number of available places for Norteas students: 5

Level: MA

Course description: This course is based on the research: Performing Violence, Limits and Transformative Means in Staged Violence. See publication: https://www.taylorfrancis.com/books/oa-mono/10.4324/9781003519881/performing-violence-davide-giovanzana

Participants will have the chance to explore staged violence from three different aspects: from a dramaturgical point of view, from the spectator position and from the performer position. In addition, the intimacy coordinator and stage fight expert Anastasia Trizna will coordinate some of the sessions during the course.

The course will offer a wider understanding of this complex phenomenon. The participants will, at the same time, develop a more critical approach to the phenomenon of staged violence, but also have the possibility to dive completely into the embodiment of it.

Application deadline:

How to apply: Send a motivation letter to teija.huikka@tuni.fi