Sara Svati

Director Scenographer Visual Artist Witch performer

I am a visual artist, director, and theatre-maker. My practice combines directing and scenography that set dramaturgical elements in visual scenarios, encompassing objects, sculptures, sounds, and bodies to unveil their hidden dialogue. My work is strongly inspired by theories of representations in art, architecture, and costume and their relation with spatial perception, whether as an implication of virtual or physical realms. I am the artistic director of Orientale Sarda, a company is based in London with a strong bond to Europe, aiming to nourish cross-cultural connections and interdisciplinary approaches in process-making and among artists. Orientale Sarda’s intention is to maintain experimental practice and artistic research alive and kicking outside academia.

Additional* strong background in visual arts, and architecture history; professional training in ballet and butoh.

Credits

Director and Set Designer, Social Distancing, Brighton and Camden Fringe Festival,Textile Theatre Company, 2021
Theatre Director, Set and Costume Designer
Orientale Sarda, Present Tense 2017- present
Amsterdam Fringe Festival 2018 NL; Live Drafts - The Yard Theatre, London UK 2018; Festival Piùchedanza, Teatro Fontana, Milano IT 2017; Lumén Performing Arts Festival, Ravenna, IT 2017; IT Independent Theatre Festival, Fabbrica del Vapore, Milano, IT 2017
Set and Costume Designer, 2009-2015
Edinburgh Fringe Festival 2014; Teatro Palladium, Teatro Due, Teatro Quarticciolo, Rome; Laban Institute, Greenwich Playhouse, The Old Vic Tunnels, The Trinity College of Music, Royal Festival Hall, London.
Set Artist and Prop Maker 2010-2011
Punchdrunk, Shunt Collective, Living Structures, Foolish People, London Literature Festival.

Training

Conia, school directed by Claudia Castellucci, Silver Lion, Venice Dance Biennal 2020
ISTAT, workshop on Actor Masks and Action,Theatre Anthropology Eugenio Barba

Location

London

Experience

5-10 years

Art forms / Disciplines

  • Dance
  • Fashion
  • Graphic / product design
  • Literature
  • Live art
  • Multi-disciplinary / cross art form
  • New technologies / digital
  • Photography
  • Radio/Audio
  • Theatre / Live perfomance
  • Visual arts

What I do

  • Choreography
  • Costume Design
  • Creative Access
  • Devising
  • Dramaturgy
  • Editing
  • Languages
  • Music - Plays Instruments
  • Performance Art
  • Physical Theatre / Mime
  • Prop Making
  • Puppetry
  • Set Design
  • Site Responsive/Immersive
  • Teaching / Coaching
  • Theatre making
  • Verbatim theatre
  • Working with Deaf non-professional adults / children
  • Working with young people
  • Working within a Community / with community participants
  • Workshopping & Development

Additional Languages

Italian, Portuguese ( entry level)

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