TALKING STORYTELLING
Alastair K Daniel

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The Second Marrakech International Storytelling Festival - A Personal Review: PART 2

The Second Marrakech International Storytelling Festival - A Personal Review: PART 1

Oxford Storytelling Festival 2022 - a (very) personal review

Storytelling Performance Part 4a: ‘I am what I am’ – role in storytelling

In this two-part blog I will explore the roles that a storyteller takes in performance. It has been several months since my last blog...

Storytelling Performance Part 4b: ‘I am what I am’ – role in storytelling

In the first part of this blog (CLICK HERE) , I introduced a layered model of storytelling (see figure 1: Storytelling Roles) and...

Storytelling Performance Part 3a: Engagement strategies in performance storytelling - Introduction

This blog is the third in an occasional series of entries exploring storytelling and performance and is linked to the conceptual model of...

Storytelling Performance Part 2: A Framework

The framework for storytelling performance that is outlined in this blog is an evolving model. As of the end of February 2019 this is (I...

Storytelling Performance Part 1: Storytelling and theatre - an introductory discussion

[This blog was first written in August 2018, and was updated at the end of February 2019.] In the 1990’s I took time out of teaching and...

Storytelling presence and performance energy

Stage presence is one of the hardest things to define, but one of the easiest to recognise. In this blog, I discuss the role of breath, bala

Story memorisation – to learn or not to learn word-for-word

Although I rarely work with pre-school children, I have been hugely influenced by the early childhood expert, Vivian Gussin Paley, who...

Storytelling spaces: teller and audience

Storytelling takes place between people and happens somewhere. When we watch a You Tube video of someone telling a story, we are not...

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