Sara Matchett

Sara Matchett is an associate Professor professor and the director of the Centre for Theatre, Dance and Performance Studies at the University of Cape Town, where she obtained her PhD. She is the co-founder and artistic director of The Mothertongue Project women's arts collective. She is also an associate teacher of Fitzmaurice Voicework® and the African regional co-ordinator of the Fitzmaurice Institute. Sara is also a breathwork practitioner. Her teaching profile centres around practical and academic courses and her research explores breath as a catalyst for generating images for performance-making. Her interests are in embodied practices that focus on presencing, co-sensing, co-llaborating and co-generating as a way of transforming egosystems to ecosystems.