Best Physical Theater

Created by Russian clown Slava Polunin in 1993, Slava's Snowshow is a visual theatrical experience famous for its massive fake blizzard.

British actor and director who co-founded Complicité in London in 1983, building it into an internationally acclaimed physical theatre company.

Created in the UK in 1991, Stomp is a notable percussion revue where performers use everyday objects like brooms and bins as instruments.

Philippe Gaulier is a French theater teacher and clown who studied under Jacques Lecoq and founded the École Philippe Gaulier outside Paris, training generations of international performers.

Canadian theater director and mime who founded Montreal's Carbone 14 company in 1981, pioneering a visceral, image-based form of physical theater in Quebec.

De La Guarda is an Argentine-founded aerial theater show that premiered in 1995, famous for suspending performers directly over crowds.

Fuerzabruta is an immersive Argentine theater production created in 2005, known for its aerial stunts performed above the audience.

British director who founded the David Glass Ensemble in 1988, creating visually striking physical theatre works often drawn from classic literature.

Monika Pagneux is a French physical theater teacher and collaborator of both Peter Brook and Jacques Lecoq, whose movement pedagogy influenced theater training across Europe.

Yves Lebreton is a French corporeal mime artist and teacher trained directly by Étienne Decroux, known internationally for solo performances and rigorous mime pedagogy.

American mime and physical theatre performer long associated with the San Francisco Mime Troupe, later teaching physical performance at U.S. institutions.

British mime teacher who established the Desmond Jones School of Mime and Physical Theatre in London, training generations of UK-based performers.

British clown and physical theatre educator trained in the Lecoq tradition, known for academic writing on clown and buffoon performance practice.