Maud Robart, Student/Teacher: Collaborating with Grotowski

Intermittently from 1977 to 1993, Maud Robart and Jerzy Grotowski worked together through the Polish director’s various post-theatre phases. Archival research reveals a rare professional collaboration that went beyond the relationship Grotowski had with other students. Robart and Grotowski created a reciprocal relationship that allowed them to be simultaneously student and teacher to one another. Exchanging singing and dancing with acting techniques, they crafted a unique performance training.