Oral Storytelling for Beginners
The elements of a story told
A course by Andrés Montero , Writer and Storyteller
About the video: The elements of a story told
Overview
“Have you ever heard a story told? To start this lesson, take a seat and listen to this short children's story by Juan José Millás, which will serve as an example to understand the elements that make up a story.”
In this video lesson Andrés Montero addresses the topic: The elements of a story told, 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
“The elements of a story told You may never have heard a tale told, it may be, and maybe you still don't understand well What do I mean by everything I'm teaching you? So let's listen to a story, if that's okay with you. It's a story I told a long time ago from my old repertoire. It is a story by Juan José Millás, a Spanish writer, and is included in his book "Even, Odd and Idiot Numbers", a children's book, what are you going to realize that this story requires that whoever is listening you will enjoy it more if you are a boy or a girl, but you have to know how to add or subtract. You'll so...”
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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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