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Claire French

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  • Breathing through the feet premieres at National Arts Festival June 23, 2022
  • Global Language Advocacy Day 2022: Personal reflections February 22, 2022

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Practice as Research

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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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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, 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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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, Practice as Research 

May 15, 2016August 18, 2021

The Wardrobe Project: Documentary theatre and training ground

With Sonja Linden of Visible I have been conceptualising a type of auto/biographical production process, engaging both process and product.

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July 21, 2015August 18, 2021

All we need is space: Old Vic New Voices

This stunning rehearsal studio at Jerwood Studios in London was the beginning of some my key current practice as research

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