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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...

Folk and Fairy Tales in the Classroom: the ‘coin and currency of culture’ – Part 2 (of 4)

This four-part blog started as a lecture that I was invited to give at the Robert Musil Literature Museum, Klagenfurt in Austria. I have...

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...

Folk and Fairy Tales in the Classroom: the ‘coin and currency of culture’ – Part 1 (of 4)

This four-part blog started as a lecture that I was invited to give at the Robert Musil Literature Museum, Klagenfurt in Austria. I have...

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...

Festival At The Edge 2018 - a personal review

2018 marked the 27th Festival at the Edge and its second year at Alderford Lake (near Whitchurch in Shropshire). According to the blurb on t

Storytelling and Narrative Art

In this article, I summarise discussions about storytelling and narriative art between artists from the Fabula Collective (based in Brighton

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

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