Tag: storytelling is physical
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Week…Just 1 Until the Rocky Mountain Storytelling Conference
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The Rocky Mountain Storytelling 2014 Conference is one week away! Storytelling conferences are always a fantastic opportunity to connect, to learn from others (previous blog post!), to learn by doing, to network – and of course to have fun! Rocky Mountain Storytelling holds its annual Colorado conference, “Storytelling: Craft & Connection,” next…
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Stance – for Storytellers and Other Speakers!
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Sometimes one of the biggest challenges for novice storytellers, it seems, is to learn to stand on their own two feet! 😉 Seriously – whether it’s nervousness, uncertainty about how to begin the story, or an established posture-habit – very often there’s a tendency to stand uncertainly, even awkwardly,…
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Internal Imagery – It’s So Not Just “Pictures!”
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So here’s a story… I was eager to return. The previous storytelling workshop at the seminary had been so well-received, so well-attended, everyone expressed excitement at scheduling a follow-up a few months later. I planned on really exploring the importance and variety of internal imagery in storytelling. In our culture,…
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Hands – “Creating the universe in the palm of the storyteller’s hand”
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“Behold the hands… …how they promise, conjure, appeal, menace, pray, supplicate, refuse, beckon, interrogate, admire, confess, cringe, instruct, command, mock and what not besides,
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Chorus – inviting audience participation
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“And they all lived…” “…happily ever after!” So you find yourself telling a story to a group of listeners. Whether it’s your first time or you’re long-experienced at it, whether in a speech, a sermon, a class or a storytelling performance, there’s a little something that can be a…
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Breathe!
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“REMEMBER TO BREATHE!” – I tell them… They always laugh! But I’m dead serious when I tell them that!
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5 Reasons Why We Need Storytelling in Schools [Part 1 of At Least 2]
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This wonderful blog about why poetry is NEEDED in schools has been circulating on the internet. It’s true, I love it, I agree with it. …And all the way through reading it, I kept wanting to replace the word “poetry” with “storytelling.” So I did.