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ABOUT

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I Gave Him An Orchid, photo by Robin

Sarah is an interdisciplinary artist working across theatre, performance, and documentary film. With a background in movement and physical theatre, she specialises in devised, collaborative, and movement-based processes, creating cross-disciplinary work that is personal, political, and experimental.​ 

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Interested in subverting expectations and playfully challenging the systems and structures that surround us, Sarah draws inspiration from both the mundane and the extraordinary aspects of everyday life. Her work is mischievous, subversive, poetic, and playful—combining bold physical and visual theatricality with moments of stripped-back honesty. She is currently exploring documentary forms within her performance practice, and bringing performance methodologies into documentary filmmaking.

Sarah trained at the Jacques Lecoq International School of Physical Theatre in Paris, the Royal Central School of Speech and Drama (BA Acting: Collaborative and Devised Theatre), and the National Film and Television School, where she studied Documentary Filmmaking. She currently works as a director, maker, and dramaturg, with a particular focus on the development of new work and adaptation for theatre and film.

Working predominantly through devised, collaborative, interdisciplinary, and movement-based processes, Sarah has collaborated with a wide range of companies and organisations in the UK and internationally, including Fevered Sleep, Blind Summit, OffStage, Fast Familiar, Made in China, Fabulous Beast, the National Theatre (and National Theatre Studio), the Yard Theatre, and the Old Vic.

sarahcalver.com

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