Oral Storytelling for Beginners
Fairytale spaces and audiences 1
A course by Andrés Montero , Writer and Storyteller
About the video: Fairytale spaces and audiences 1
Overview
“What do you think is the ideal place to tell a story? Now I am going to talk about the different types of scenarios where you can do it.”
In this video lesson Andrés Montero addresses the topic: Fairytale spaces and audiences 1, 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
“Story spaces and audiences Maybe you have been wondering where can stories be told and to whom you can tell stories. In this lesson we are going to see the spaces and the different story audiences that may exist. The first thing is to know that everything can be a stage for stories, but not everything can be an audience for stories. A setting can be the beach, a library, a classroom, a nursing home, the home itself, bed, when you go with your children to tell them something at night, but not everyone in all those spaces is ready or wants to listen to stories. I remember a student from the w...”
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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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