Marta Górnicka
Director and singer Marta Górnicka is a graduate of the Faculty of Drama at the Warsaw Theatre Academy. She also studied at the Frederic Chopin School of Music in Warsaw, at the Warsaw University, and the State Drama School in Krakow. She wrote the film Crave. Record Attempt, based on Sarah Kane’s play Crave, which had its premiere in Teatr Dramatyczny in Warsaw. She collaborated with Robert Wilson on the Warsaw production of Symptoms/Akropolis, based on texts by Gabriella Maione and Stanisław Wyspiański. She developed a method of vocal-acting training for voice/body, aimed at finding an organic voice. Górnicka has taught this method in drama workshops in Dresden, Tokyo, Berlin, Kiev, London, Tel Aviv, Nottingham, Athens, Tehran, Utrecht, Marseille, Paris, and Havre.
Between 2009 and 2014 Marta Górnicka collaborated with the Zbigniew Raszewski Theater Institute in Warsaw, creating her own concept of a modern tragic chorus, forming the group known as Chorus of Women, writing librettos and directing performances. Górnicka’s work aims to “reclaim female voice,” scarcely represented in western theatre, while also reclaiming the use of the tragic chorus in contemporary theatre. Through her experimental work and her workshops, she has formed a new type of chorus theatre, an aesthetic, formal and ideological concept of theatre, merging the original power of the collective voice/body that is typical of western theatre with the contemporary criticism of language as a tool of power.