Oral Storytelling for Beginners
About the essay
A course by Andrés Montero , Writer and Storyteller
About the video: About the essay
Overview
“They say "practice makes perfect". In this lesson I am going to explain various possibilities to rehearse your story before presenting it to an audience.”
In this video lesson Andrés Montero addresses the topic: About the essay, 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
“About the essay Now that you've gone through the process of adapting your story, are you ready to tell but you are not going to tell it yet to an audience, but to yourself. I propose four instances of rehearsal so that you can prepare this story. The first will be the projection, as we have already seen, but now after the adaptation process, therefore, there will be some differences with the first projection What did you make of the story? Then, narration out loud, which I will explain to you how we will do it. An auditory recording and also that you tell others. For projection, the first t...”
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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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