Oral Storytelling for Beginners
Corporality and nuances
A course by Andrés Montero , Writer and Storyteller
About the video: Corporality and nuances
Overview
“The body, the voice and the silences are a fundamental part in the narration of a told story. Now I am going to explain to you the reasons why this happens.”
In this video lesson Andrés Montero addresses the topic: Corporality and nuances, 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
“If I narrate the story. the embodiment and nuances define how I tell it. Thus. considering embodiment as contains is vital. including facial and hand gestures. movement. posture. and gaze. which encompasses facial and hand gestures. movement. posture. and gaze. A well-crafted embodiment in a story does not necessarily require excessive motion. To mean that one should travel extensively is misleading. Actually. there exists an ancient Japanese tradition where skilled storytellers recount tales while seated on their knees. They do not need to move about excessively; such constant movement mig...”
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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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