Ditte Berkeley

Ditte Berkeley is an independent artist particularly interested in the use song in performance.

She is a performer and co-creator in Teatr ZAR’s first four performances, as well as researcher at the Grotowski Institute in Wrocław. As well as being a theatre practitioner she was the initiator of the cyclical festival event VoicEncounters, hosted by the Grotowski Institute, and dedicated to the phenomena of vocal traditions around the world. She also co-organized, in collaboration with CPR (Wales), the international festival “Giving Voice” in Wrocław in 2009. She has worked alongside Studio Matejka and has been responsible for some of their vocal/singing training. Co-leader of workshops: “Into the Sound” with Teatr ZAR and  Awakening the Listening Body with Matejka. Now she conducts her own research in voice and leads her own workshop Voice Tale (Speaking Song) in Poland and internationally.