Oral Storytelling for Beginners
Project the story
A course by Andrés Montero , Writer and Storyteller
About the video: Project the story
Overview
“Now that you have chosen your story, begin the process of learning it so that you can narrate it orally. As we saw in the previous lesson, after choosing the next thing will be to project.”
In this video lesson Andrés Montero addresses the topic: Project 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
“Project the story The second step to adapt a story to orality is to project it. After we have it chosen and read, we project it. So that you understand what I mean by projecting the story, I'll tell you a bit about a book called "The movie accountant" of the Chilean writer Hernán Rivera Letelier, where it tells the story of a very poor family in a town where a cinema arrives and they don't have money to go to the cinema, but they manage to join together to pay an entrance. So they send one of the daughters of the family to go see the movie and then tell everyone. What this girl has to do in...”
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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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