Practise telling to the mirror first ...
Telling effectively is all about your expressions, use your face!
Working in a group, to tune out the external and connect to the internal story
Telling in public for the first time!
Incorporating props in your telling
Your gestures speak a thousand words ...
An exercise in movement and telling
Making an art response to your story
The final exercise to connect to your story

The Storytelling Intensive 2012

A special storytelling course targeted at Performance Storytelling

This intensive storytelling course was first conceptualized for La Salle College of the Arts, Singapore, for their Level 1 Diploma in Performance students from the Faculty of Performing Arts.
Participants will be prepared for performance standard storytelling and the course will culminate in a public performance targeted at adult audiences. The course is carried out over a series of consecutive days of 3 hours per day.

Date: 28 Mar – 13 Apr 2012
Time:

4.30pm - 7.30pm daily

Location: La Salle College of the Arts

This intensive storytelling course was first conceptualized for La Salle College of the Arts, Singapore, for their Level 1 Diploma in Performance students from the Faculty of Performing Arts.

Participants will be prepared for performance standard storytelling and the course will culminate in a public performance targeted at adult audiences. The course is carried out over a series of consecutive days, of 3 - 6 hours per day.

Areas Covered:

A highly participative course that involves all participants in storytelling exercises, activites and practice opportunities in telling to a live audience. Individual feedback and listener's observation are core elements of this course. Participants will be exposed to a variety of ways of performing their story and encouraged to find their own individual style as a storyteller. Memorization of text is discouraged and internalization of the story is encouraged. Only stories from the oral tradition will be used during this course (legends, myths, epics, folktales, fables, fairy tales and traditional oral narrative stories).

Voice

Body

Breath

Movement

Use of space and levels

Expression

Gestures

Non-Verbal Communication

Story Mapping

Key Word Analysis

Reconstructing a deconstructed story

Incorporation of Props

Incorporation of Music and Instruments

Tandem Telling

Ensemble Telling

Telling in Public

Audience involvement, interaction and participation

Listener's Observation and Feedback

Elements of Crafting and Creating a Story

Elements of Telling a Story to a live Audience

About the Facilitator

Kamini Ramachandran has been instrumental in the revival of the art of storytelling in Singapore through her work in MoonShadow Stories which she co-founded in 2004. She is a founder member as well as the President of the Storytelling Association (Singapore) from 2008 – 2012. She brings a wealth of story-crafting expertise with her through her customized storytelling content creation and storytelling consultancy experience.