Oral Storytelling for Beginners
Tell our tale
A course by Andrés Montero , Writer and Storyteller
About the video: Tell our tale
Overview
“We are reaching the end of the process. It's time to tell the story we've chosen, so let's briefly see how to prepare and then I'm going to tell you my story!”
In this video lesson Andrés Montero addresses the topic: Tell our tale, 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
“tell our tale After having gone through all this process choice and adaptation of your story, you're ready to tell it for the first time. What I do when I tell a story for the first time is to find a quiet place where you can simply review the cores, the first, the second, the third... The girl leaves her house, meets the wolf, arrives at grandma's house. Just be sure to remember the structure, the skeleton, only to come out calmer and safer to tell that story. I also try to do some breathing exercises looking for the rhythm of the story. I always remember an Argentine narrator that told me...”
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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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