Sara Matchett

Full Name
Sara Matchett
First Name
Sara
Surname
Matchett
Additional Name
Philippa
Honorific Prefix
Dr
Biography
Dr Sara Matchett is the Director of the Centre for Theatre, Dance & Performance Studies. She is an Associate Professor in the CTDPS. She is also the Artistic Director of The Mothertongue Project women's arts collective, an Associate Teacher of Fitzmaurice Voicework® and the Fitzmaurice Institute's Regional Director for Africa. Her teaching profile centres around practical and academic courses which include, voice, acting, theatre-making, applied drama/theatre, and performance analysis. She is especially interested in interdisciplinary modes of creating. Her research explores the body as a site for generating images for the purpose of performance making and specifically focuses on investigating 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. As co-founder and Artistic Director of The Mothertongue Project women’s arts collective, Sara has experience in the field of theatre and performance in South Africa and the globe. She is an experienced teacher with a demonstrated history of working in the higher education and NGO sectors. Skilled as a Teacher, Researcher, Performance-Maker, and Vocal Coach. She is a committed education professional with a Doctor of Philosophy (PhD) focused on Theatre & Performance making from the University of Cape Town. 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.
Nationality
South African
Birth Date
14 February 1969
Birth Place
Cape Town
Occupation
Academic
Artistic Director
Voice Coach
UCT Role
Academic
Academic Position
Associate Professor
Start Date
1 January 2010
Member Of UCT Department
CTDPS People
UCT Faculty
Humanities
ORCID
0000-0002-2962-9908
Alumni of
University of Cape Town
Affiliation(s)
The Mothertongue Project
Keywords
Theatre & Performance
Breath-Body-Voice
Performance Making
Embodied Practices
Embodied Leadership
Embodied Cognition
Regenerative Design
The Ethics of Care
Theatre Voice
Women's Theatre

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Mahareng: Passage of the Bird Director TheaterEvent
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Making Life-Size Paper Puppets and Using These to Explore the Use of the Rasa with Puppets Text
Mapping a classic: body mapping and Koodiyattam Rasa breath patterns as a way of embodying character and analysing text in a production of The Trojan Women with second year acting students from the University of Cape Town’s Drama Department Text
Breath-Body-Self: Reflections on Performance-Based Approaches through a Women's Theatre Project in South Africa Text
Catalytic Conversations: The Aesthetic Weave and Social Weft of Phakama’s Creative Practice. In Phakama: Making Participatory Performance Text
Butoh gives back the feeling to the people Text
Aesthetic Grammars of Social Justice: Sex Work Reimagined Text
The application of a translational performance method using archival material, personal narrative, mythology and somatic practices: the making of Womb of Fire Text
Translation and performance in an era of global asymmetries: Part 2 Text
Collaborative Conversations Text
Introduction to Collaborative Conversations Text
Uhambo: Pieces of a Dream, Images and Poetry Text
Curating Care: The Langeberg Youth Arts Project Text
Como fazer uma Performance (decolonial feminista) como Pesquisa com um Grupo de Trabalhadoras do Sexo: Text
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