113 Columbia Street Northwest
Olympia, WA 98501
USA
Although oral storytelling can be theatrical, it is not theater. Successful story-telling to an engaged audience involves skills that will maintain an audience’s attention without the aid of stage sets, costumes, and a pre-written script.
In this workshop students will gain a better understanding of story, storytelling, and how to tell a compelling story without losing your listener’s attention. Using traditional folktales as a tool, participants will learn basic storytelling methods, and general story structures. This workshop will provide a foundation for participants to better construct a story taken from their own lives for oral performance storytelling.
“I believe storytelling to be not only a folk-art but a living art; and by that I mean much. Music in all its forms is a living art in that it becomes a reality only when it is played. Dancing is a living art, for it lives only while you watch the movement, grace, interpretation of the dancer. So is it with storytelling: it lives only while the story is being told. True, child or adult can sometimes go to a book and read the story again for himself; a good and an abiding thing to do, but not the same thing.”
– Ruth Sawyer, The Way of the Storyteller. Viking Press 1942.
20$ for OAL members
25$ for non members
5$ student discount with valid I.D.
5$ refer a friend discount
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