Oral Storytelling for Beginners
Identify nuclei and develop catalysis
A course by Andrés Montero , Writer and Storyteller
About the video: Identify nuclei and develop catalysis
Overview
“We come to the last two steps. In this lesson I will teach you to recognize the central elements of a story and to develop everything that is between these elements.”
In this video lesson Andrés Montero addresses the topic: Identify nuclei and develop catalysis, 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
“Identify nuclei and develop catalysis After we have already chosen the story, we have projected it and we have adapted it, we come to the last two steps to adapt a story to orality, which are to identify the nuclei and develop the catalysis. But what is a core? A nucleus is what we cannot stop counting without the story losing its meaning. Every story has four, five or six cores, What are the very important parts? those scenes that we can't stop counting. Think, for example, when someone tells a joke, someone who is perhaps not much of a joke teller, but he gets excited, he starts counting,...”
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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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