Marta Górnicka
Biography
Marta Górnicka (1975, Wloclawek) is a Polish theatre director, author, singer, re-discoverer of the choral principle. She graduated at the Faculty of Drama Directing of the Aleksander Zelwerowicz National Academy of Dramatic Art and also studied at the Frederic Chopin School of Music in Warsaw. THE CHORUS which she brings into existence as the sole protagonist of her performances is always both a critical tool to examine modern mechanisms of control, exclusion and violence, and a vehicle of community. In her works, Górnicka often probes the relationship between the individual and society, she experiments with new forms of collective voices. She develops practices in the domain of the political character of the body, voice and language. In 2019 she founded POLITICAL VOICE INSTITUTE (PVI), social laboratory of a modern chorus theatre in Maxim Gorki Theatre in Berlin where she develops the CHORUS in its formal and political dimension. The institute is a workshop centre for the use of the collective voice/body and language. Górnicka’s performances were presented worldwide in more than sixty theatre and directing festivals.