Course Info: IA-0228
| Course | IA-0228 Storytelling as Performance |
| Long Title | Storytelling as Performance: Voice, Body, Narrative |
| Term | 2017F |
| Note(s) |
Prerequisites Required Textbook information |
| Meeting Info | Emily Dickinson Hall 104 on W from 1:00-3:50 |
| Faculty | Natalie Sowell |
| Capacity | 16 |
| Available | -2 |
| Waitlist | 0 |
| Distribution(s) |
Arts, Design, and Media |
| Cumulative Skill(s) | Multiple Cultural Perspectives Independent Work |
| Additional Info | In this course, students are expected to spend at least six to eight hours a week of preparation and work outside of class time. This time includes reading, writing, research, and rehearsal. |
| Description | Storytelling is an oral art form whose practice provides a means of preserving and transmitting images, ideas, motivations, and emotions. The practice of oral literature is storytelling. A central, unique aspect of storytelling is its reliance on the audience to develop specific visual imagery and detail to complete and co-create the story. The primary emphasis of this course was in developing storytelling skills through preparation, performance, and evaluation. Participants engaged in exercises and activities to enhance the delivery of telling stories; learned to incorporate various techniques to engage audiences; and developed an awareness of resources, materials, cultural contexts and philosophies of storytelling. This class was designed to help participants build a storytelling repertoire which will express their unique identities as tellers. Students participated in two storytelling performances: one group session for children and one individual performance for AGO, the Hampshire College Storytelling Festival. |