Sara Matchett

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  • Geographic Location: BELGIUM, Antwerp (Naedts)
  • Languages: Danish, English
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Lead Trainer (2012)
Fitzmaurice Voice Institute Regional Director for Africa
Associate Professor (Centre for Theatre, Dance & Performance Studies; Artistic Director (The Mothertongue Project)
Cape Town, South Africa
+27(0)72 1837866
Sara.Matchett@uct.ac.za
http://www.ctdps.uct.ac.za/ctdps/staff/matchett
http://www.mothertongue.co.za

Dr. Sara Matchett is an award winning Director and Associate Professor at the University of Cape Town's Centre for Theatre, Dance & Performance Studies (CTDPS). She is also a Lead Trainer of Fitzmaurice Voicework®, the Regional Co-ordinator of the Fitzmaurice Institute for Africa, and an Advanced Breathwork Practitioner with Breathwork Africa (www.breathworkafrica.co.za). Her teaching profile centres around practical and academic courses that include, voice, acting, performance-making, applied theatre, and performance analysis. She is especially interested in transdisciplinary modes of creating. Her research considers embodied practices that engage breath as the catalyst and thread that weaves a connection between body, voice and imagination. In doing this, she explores the body as a site for generating images for the purpose of performance making and specifically inquires into the relationship between breath and emotion, and breath and image, in an attempt to make performance that is inspired by a biography of the body. Her particular interests are in embodied practices that focus on presencing, co-sensing, co-llaborating and co-generating as a way of transforming ‘egosystems’ to ‘ecosystems’. As co-founder and Artistic Director of The Mothertongue Project women’s arts collective, Sara has experience in the field of theatre and performance as a performance-maker, performer, director, and facilitator.

PhD & MA & BA University of Cape Town.

Specializations: Acting and Performance-Making
Languages: English