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Claire French

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  • Migration and my songs of courage March 22, 2023
  • Breathing through the feet premieres at National Arts Festival June 23, 2022

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Blog, Practice as Research, Theatre 

March 22, 2023March 24, 2023

Migration and my songs of courage

For the past two years I have been slowly developing a new play that is inspired by the female-led migration

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Blog, Festivals, Performance 

June 23, 2022June 23, 2022

Breathing through the feet premieres at National Arts Festival

Today, our short film Breathing through the feet premieres at the National Arts Festival Makhanda, South Africa. Breathing through the

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Activism, Blog 

February 22, 2022February 22, 2022

Global Language Advocacy Day 2022: Personal reflections

I recently became a member of the Global Coalition for Language Rights, the leading movement behind Global Language Advocacy Day.

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Blog, Performance 

February 2, 2022February 22, 2022

‘Theatre of the real’: how artists at Perth Fringe World are stripping down to reveal their vulnerabilities

Claire French, University of the Witwatersrand. This article is republished from The Conversation under a Creative Commons license. Read the original

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Blog, Practice as Research 

November 21, 2021November 22, 2021

Capturing courage

Since autumn, I have been quietly turning to an artistic practice that firmly situates my identity and value as an

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Blog, Practice as Research 

October 28, 2021December 7, 2021

#LANGUAGING ACTORS in process

We launched the first session of LANGUAGING last night at the School of Arts, University of Witwatersrand, Johannesburg. Running to

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Blog, Practice as Research 

July 2, 2021August 18, 2021

Decolonising Facilitator Training: Voice messages from the South African day to the Australian night

I have had the pleasure of collaborating with performance practitioner Sibusiso Mkhize since the beginning of the year as part

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Blog, PhD Research, Practice as Research 

April 18, 2020August 18, 2021

Performing the languages we live

This blog post is a copy of its original publication on the Creative Multilingualism blog here ‘We breathe English, but

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Blog, Performance, PhD Research 

February 12, 2020August 18, 2021

The body, making and languaging: The first time my PhD research meets practice

I will soon be delivering a workshop for performers and practitioners that explores how and when the performer’s body might

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Blog, PhD Research 

December 11, 2019August 18, 2021

Celebrating the PhD, onwards ECR

Yesterday I experienced the PhD viva and left unscathed (!), enthusiastic about the nature of the PhD reviewing and examining

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Blog, PhD Research 

April 30, 2019August 18, 2021

Holding value in the last leg: Completing my PhD @ Odox Arts, Birmingham

I thought it’s time I pen a hybrid of the static ‘holding page’ and blog post that details my current

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Blog, Practice as Research 

October 3, 2017August 18, 2021

Barbican ArtWorks: the beginning of research focusing on actors’ linguistic resources

The initial stimuli for researching approaches to drawing from actors’ linguistic resources in performance came in 2013 at the Evelyn

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Blog, PhD Fieldwork  0 Comments

September 21, 2017August 18, 2021

Observer & Researcher of Micia de Wet’s recent Johannesburg production

I am currently observing Micia de Wet’s development and rehearsals of a multilingual production by BA Theatre students at City Varsity,

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April 21, 2017August 18, 2021

Podcasting with Visible Theatre

I was lucky enough to have access to enough equipment to cobble together some podcasts featuring the post-show panel discussions

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Blog, PhD Fieldwork  0 Comments

September 5, 2016August 18, 2021

Research Assistant to Prof. Jakelin Troy, University of Sydney

My current sociolinguistic research has been tremendously informed through my experiences working alongside Professor Jakelin Troy, Director of Aboriginal and

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