{"id":213,"date":"2017-11-17T14:21:28","date_gmt":"2017-11-17T14:21:28","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/imaginedtheatres.dustysheldon.com\/?post_type=person&#038;p=213"},"modified":"2018-04-30T16:42:02","modified_gmt":"2018-04-30T16:42:02","slug":"sara-matchett","status":"publish","type":"person","link":"https:\/\/www.imaginedtheatres.com\/sara-matchett\/","title":{"rendered":"Sara Matchett"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>Sara Matchett <\/strong>is a Senior Lecturer in the Department of Drama at The University of Cape Town who teaches voice, acting, theatre-making, and applied drama. Her scholarly research investigates the soma as a site for generating images for performance making, with specific focus on breath as catalyst.\u00a0She has worked with Project Phakama (2000 \u2013 2005), an international collective of artists and educators driven by the desire to make high-quality arts, and is Artistic Director of The Mothertongue Project, a women\u2019s arts collective she co-founded in 2000. She directed Rehane Abrahams in <em>What The Water Gave Me <\/em>(2000) and again in <em>Womb of Fire<\/em> (2017). Her work concerns the performing female body as a site of disruption where the body itself challenges the borders and boundaries of the body politic.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Sara Matchett is a Senior Lecturer in the Department of Drama at The University of Cape Town who teaches voice, acting, theatre-making, and applied drama. Her scholarly research investigates the soma as a site for generating images for performance making, with specific focus on breath as catalyst. She has worked with Project Phakama (2000 \u2013 2005), an international collective of artists and educators driven by the desire to make high-quality arts, and Artistic Director of The Mothertongue Project, a women\u2019s arts collective she co-founded in 2000. She directed Rehane Abrahams in What The Water Gave Me (2000) and again in Womb of Fire (2017). Her work concerns the performing female body as a site of disruption where the body itself challenges the borders and boundaries of the body politic.\r\n","protected":false},"featured_media":245,"template":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.imaginedtheatres.com\/api\/wp\/v2\/person\/213"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.imaginedtheatres.com\/api\/wp\/v2\/person"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.imaginedtheatres.com\/api\/wp\/v2\/types\/person"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.imaginedtheatres.com\/api\/wp\/v2\/media\/245"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.imaginedtheatres.com\/api\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=213"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}