Instructor: David Novak
Phone: 828-280-2718
Email: atellingexperience@gmail.com
Office hours: per request
Summer 2015
Course
Schedule: July 13-31,
M-F, 9:45am-12:35pm
Room: Campus Center 205
Texts:
The Right To Speak by Patsy
Rodenberg
Paperback: 320
pages
Publisher: Routledge;
Reissue edition (June 14, 1993)
Improving Your
Storytelling by Doug Lipman
Paperback: 224
pages
Publisher: August
House (1999)
Letters to a Young
Artist by Anna Deveare Smith
Paperback: 240
pages
Publisher: Anchor;
bound galley for pb original edition (January 24, 2006)
Class Blog:
In lieu of
D2L, students will log onto http://stor52302015.blogspot.com
Catalog
Description: An in-depth
study of specific, advanced techniques of storytelling in both delivery and
use.
Overall
Objective: To develop
and improve the public performance skills and the critical thinking and
compositional skills necessary for the student to pursue a storytelling career.
Course
Narrative: We will work
with a variety of performance exercises, group and individual projects and
direct coaching to address specific opportunities for growth with each student.
Each student will be required to participate in all class discussions and web
log journaling. We will do voice and movement warm-ups and exercises. Please
dress accordingly. If necessary, bring a change of clothes for movement and
exercise during class.
Assignments:
1. Day 1:
Present a story from your standing repertory.
2. Day 5:
Present a Traditional Fairy or Folk Tale. This should be a poetic and stylistic
effort consonant with the story source, NOT a "fractured" or
otherwise modernized treatment.
3. Day 10:
Present a personal story in manner and style consonant with the structure of
stories presented at The Moth in NYC. For reference, http://themoth.org/
4. Day 14 &
15: Present a combinatorial of
stories demonstrating the skills and techniques covered in class. This
will be an ensemble activity. Run-time 90+ minutes.
5. Journal: Our
main forum for review and discussion will be a class blog in which you will be
required to record and discuss daily classwork.
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