PRINCIPLES OF MOVEMENT IN STORYTELLING

Aimed at those who already have some practical experience of telling stories, this short and intense workshop looks at how ‘The Body Speaks’.

It introduces a practical grammar and framework for understanding how gestures, movements and displacements support and clarify storytelling, based on the reworking and retelling of folktale, fairytale myth and epic. What is signalled by deliberate movement and what is betrayed by unconscious movement?

The workshop is for those already familiar with the improvised spoken word paradigm of performance storytelling, have some performance experience under their belt, and have a basic repertoire of traditional narratives that can be drawn on readily.

It aims to furnish participants with the practical knowledge to start integrating these principals of movement into their own work, and to also assess what deeper specific training in the areas of body knowledge and movement (martial arts, dance, mime, etc) they might seek.

'IT WAS LIKE BEING GIVEN THE KEYS TO A BOX FULL OF STORYTELLING SECRETS' - Himanshu Ohja

N.B: Ahead of the workshop, participants will submit a 5-10min rough film of themselves telling a story. This is not an audition, but helps us shape the workshop to meet participants’ needs.