Justyna Chaberek

BIOGRAPHIE

Justyna is a theater performer and singer, with profound experience working across a spectrum of modes related to theater, voice, and sound. In 2009 she professionally debuted as a singer on the Polish television talent show "Szansa na Sukces". Subsequently, Justyna joined the Zbigniew Raszewski Institute of Polish Theater in Warsaw as a performer and played in their repertoire performances over the next five years. The play- "The Chorus is Speaking" (2011) - a controversial feminist Polish theater piece - received worldwide recognition, and toured the globe, with some of the most significantshows taking place in: Chimera Kiev; Theater X-cai Tokyo; Théâtre de Lyon, France; Festival at Queens; Lyric Theater; HAU, Hebbel am Ufer Theatre in Berlin. The following year she was also called on to take a leading role in the "Magnificat" (2012) which was performed in theatres such as: Scène Nationale Lille, Theater Spektakel, Zurich; National School of Drama in New Delhi. A further notable role also includes the “Requiemachine” (2013), produced by the National Theater of Strasbourg. In 2015 Chaberek started to work closely with choreographer Anna Godowska. The partnership resulted in a residency in Lublin Dance Theater & Centre for Culture, as well as a play, "Barocco", shown during the Body/Mind Festival in Warsaw. She performed for the “Osmosis”, a site-specific performative project, that merged artists from Berlin, Canada, and France, lead by Manon Parent in Cooperation with ZAMEK Culture Centre in Poznan. In the years 2014-2017 Justyna was a member of an interpretative theater collective “Wieszcze Niespokojne", whosework focused on reinterpreting old Polish texts from the Romantic period into modern sounds, and which was positively received within the theatre community, being attended by over 2000 people. In the year 2015 Justyna took part in the program of the Polin Museum of Polish Jews in Warsaw, where she co-created a sound work on memory called "Wacława". The work was awarded a II Prize by The Adam Mickiewicz Institute asa non-fiction narrative audio work, in the year 2018. She is currntly based in Berlin. Here she is in the final stages of her Master in Theater Studies at Freie Universitaet. She has worked as an assistant of the director Jan Bolender for a Vaganten Buehne Theater. Justyna is also a founder of the music project: Poem8 who have been active participants in Berlin music scene programs (for example, Musicboard Berlin 2019). Justyna is a member of LAFT Berlin (Landesverband der Freie Darstellende Künste Berlin). This year, she started to work as a performer for Dorota Gaweda and Egle Kulbokaite duo, playing vocal and physical roles for their performances, see: .("Lalia", winner of the Swiss Performing Awards 2021 and , "SULK IV" for Kunstverein Hamburg.) She performed and played in an experimental CGI movie directed by Helene Kuemmer and produced by HKB Hamburg. Recently she has written and directed a short videographic piece "GOL3M".

FILMOGRAPHIE