18.05.2025
MASTERCLASS OF MARTA AT ILT FESTIVAL DENMARK, MAY 22

With her choral theater, Marta Górnicka has found a very unique, powerful theatrical language and at the same time a form on how to express and deal with violence and unbearable realities on stage. Her art form makes it possible to negotiate things for which we lack language and psychological tools.

In her new production “Mothers – a song for wartime”, she creates a chorus form in which Ukrainian women can also talk about sexual violence in the current full scale war of Russia on Ukraine, giving them a voice.

In her masterclass Marta Górnicka shares her working practice with the audience and shows how complicated dream work and the overcoming of unreconciled political conflicts can be made conceivable by means of art. How can we work on a fringe of language and voice? What way to build a meeting place of different languages, discourses and voices today ?

We will look for a place where we are able to find the transformative power of the CHORUS.

“CHORUS theatre is for me the place where I can meet people, who have no chance to meet each other in other circumstances in reality. And whom politics defines as enemies very often. I see theatre as a new form of solidarity. Place where a better world is imaginable and possible.” (Marta Górnicka for Theatre der Zeit)