Introduction to Performance Storytelling

Name: Introduction to Performance Storytelling
Start: 2024-06-29T13:00:00-04:00
End: 2024-06-29T20:00:00-04:00
Location: 130 Cherry St, Ithaca, NY 14850-5066, United States

Schedule

Sat Jun 29 2024 at 01:00 pm to 08:00 pm

UTC-04:00

Location

130 Cherry St, Ithaca, NY 14850-5066, United States | Ithaca, NY

Saturday June 29, 10 am–5 pm - $120
The Cherry’s Camilla Schade Studio (130 Cherry St)
This workshop will introduce participants to the skills of voice, physicality, and imagination necessary to tell traditional stories aloud. We will hear stories and tell some of our own, learning to bring traditional myths, legends and fairy tales alive through the power of the spoken word. Special attention will be given to composition, the role of improvisation, and the use of the body.
For thousands of years traditional stories have been the means by which humans have connected with unseen powers, the natural world, and each other. Humans think with stories, and traditional stories in particular offer us tools with which to challenge the narratives we find around us. Come channel the hag-queen, the rowdy king and the reckless fool within you so as to say things you never thought you could say. All are welcome and no previous theater or storytelling experience is required.