Course code:

AD3038

Level:

M - Intermediate

Class size limit:

12

Lab fee:

30

Typically offered:

Upon occasion

This studio arts course invites students to develop storytelling skills and practice methods of preparing and performing stories. Our exploration of storytelling, as a communicative practice and relational performance with multiple applications in daily life; whether providing testimony and witnessing, prompting topical discourse within the community, or honoring a person or tradition through living thought, it is the storyteller’s intentions that guide our methods of preparing for and evaluating a given performance within a given context. The course progresses as a practice of observing stories daily, and through preparation of three storytelling performance projects, combined with listening activities, readings, discussion, research/interview assignments and performance exercises. Evaluation will be based on participation and experimentation in class activities respective to each story project, and implementation of techniques used to address ‘story time,’ the transfer of experience from tellers to listeners. Past projects have included oral storytelling, audio podcasts, community story circles and digital storytelling.

Prerequisites:

Intro-level AD performance art course and completion of writing requirement recommended.

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