Oral Storytelling for Beginners
About Me
A course by Andrés Montero , Writer and Storyteller
About the video: About Me
Overview
“In this lesson you will know my trajectory in the world of narration. I'll start by telling you who I am and how I became a storyteller.”
In this video lesson Andrés Montero addresses the topic: About Me, which is part of the Domestika online course: Oral Storytelling for Beginners. Discover the art of storytelling and learn techniques to adapt stories to spoken word, translate them to stage, and build a connection with any audience.
Partial transcription of the video
“Presentation Hello, my name is Andrés Montero and I am a writer and storyteller. I am not so sure if I am a writer who tells stories or a storyteller who writes. I've thought a lot about that And lately I've come to the conclusion that it doesn't matter too much. Actually, the only thing that matters is that I am fascinated by stories and that I'm always looking than the rest of the people around me and that sometimes they don't even know me they can also enjoy, like me, of the world of storytelling. Where does this fascination with stories come from? I think it comes from my family. We are...”
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Course summary for: Oral Storytelling for Beginners
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Children's Literature, Communication, Creative Writing, Fiction Writing, Narrative, Storytelling
Andrés Montero
A course by Andrés Montero
Andrés Montero is a writer and storyteller from Santiago de Chile. In 2012, he cofounded the company La Matrioska, with which he has put on performances, workshops, and lectures on oral storytelling throughout Chile and in more than ten countries across America and Europe. Every year La Matrioska hosts the International Festival of Oral Narration, ChileCuentos, and in 2022 premiered the television program Los Cuenteros.
As a writer, he has published the novels La muerte viene estilando, Taguada, and Tony Ninguno, which was awarded the Premio Iberoamericano de Novela Elena Poniatowska. He has also published children's books such as Alguien toca la puerta: Leyendas chilenas and an essay entitled Por qué contar cuentos en el siglo XXI. In general, all his projects aim to explore the relationship between literature and orality.
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