Oral Storytelling for Beginners
First step, choose the story
A course by Andrés Montero , Writer and Storyteller
About the video: First step, choose the story
Overview
“Surely it took you a while to find the story you want to tell, and you may not have made up your mind yet. Let's look at this step one last time before we continue.”
In this video lesson Andrés Montero addresses the topic: First step, choose the story, 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
“First step, choose the story In the next lessons I will teach you how to adapt your story orally. There are five steps that we are going to follow one by one. The first step is to choose the story, as I have already mentioned. The next thing is to project it. Then we are going to adapt it, we are going to identify the nuclei and finally to develop the catalysis. We will see all this in the following lessons. For now let's start with the first step: choose. First it must be said, that it is the most difficult step of all because it requires a lot of time, it requires reading, remembering, li...”
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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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