Oral Storytelling for Beginners
Text and structure
A course by Andrés Montero , Writer and Storyteller
About the video: Text and structure
Overview
“A story is based on its words and its construction. You must know if it is well built so that it does not collapse when you are counting it. In this lesson I will explain why.”
In this video lesson Andrés Montero addresses the topic: Text and structure, 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
“text and structure Every story is like a house that it needs a solid structure so as not to fall. We need a safe place to unfold all our narrator self. But how to know if the structure of a story is solid or not? Let's see the structure of the stories so you can look at the story you're writing or choosing for this course to be able to count to see if it has this structure that I'm talking about. Every story presents a world. We call this world the precarious balance. Why precarious? Because nothing has happened. It is what it is before the conflicts begin and everything that happens in the...”
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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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