Oral Storytelling for Beginners
Influences
A course by Andrés Montero , Writer and Storyteller
About the video: Influences
Overview
“Our referents are a fundamental piece in the development of our work. Now I am going to tell you about some artists who have been important influences on my path as a writer and oral narrator.”
In this video lesson Andrés Montero addresses the topic: Influences, 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
“influences In the path that I have followed as a writer and as an oral narrator, As I was telling you, I have been running into many people, writers, storytellers and other artists who have inspired me a lot. Now I would like to tell you only about four of them, although of course there are many more, so that you know them and read or listen to them as the case may be. First I would like to talk to you about Italo Calvino. He is an Italian writer of the 20th century, one of the greatest writers of universal literature, in my opinion. I feel very identified with Italo Calvino because, in add...”
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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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