Oral Storytelling for Beginners
What to tell?
A course by Andrés Montero , Writer and Storyteller
About the video: What to tell?
Overview
“The first step is to choose what we want to tell. In this lesson, I will tell you about the repertoire and I will give you recommendations so that you can find a good story to tell.”
In this video lesson Andrés Montero addresses the topic: What to tell?, 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
“To tell? During this course I will share with you the process I follow when I want to prepare a new tale to tell. When I feel like telling a story and I start looking, The first thing I do, of course, is choose the story. In this case I chose a story by Italo Calvino which is collected in the book that I told you about before, when I mentioned my references, which is called "Italian Folk Tales". The story is not by Italo Calvino, but he picks it up from the Italian tradition and it is called "The country where you never die". With that title I was already interested. I'll tell you how I got...”
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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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