Oral Storytelling for Beginners
Adapt the story
A course by Andrés Montero , Writer and Storyteller
About the video: Adapt the story
Overview
“You already know your story very well, but you can still make it more your own through your personal adaptation. I'll explain how.”
In this video lesson Andrés Montero addresses the topic: Adapt 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
“Adapt the story After we have already chosen the story and we have already projected it, we have read it and we are watching it, it is the turn of the adaptation. When we adapt a story, it is about adapting it precisely to what we are because the art of storytelling has to be as honest as possible. You have to think that the story we have to be comfortable with ourselves, not others, us because stories can be like shirts, they can be big or they can be small and you have to see if you have to make any adjustments to shrink, to enlarge, so that it fits us well. Adaptation work is very import...”
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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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