COURSE TIMETABLE
Day 1 - 10am-5pm
Day 2 - 10am-5pm (+ sharing until 7pm)
ACCESS NOTE
This workshop will take place upstairs in Studio Ira, which is not wheelchair accessible.
COURSE INFO
A creative two-day workshop for performers and story lovers alike, exploring how to tell
stories in the traditional oral style.
This lively, practical course will introduce the basics of how to tell folk and fairy tales, myths
and legends in the playful yet technical way that traditional storytellers have performed
them for centuries.
The oral tradition works with many rich techniques to help tellers embody and bring to life
stories of all lengths and complexities, without needing to learn text off-by-heart. Using just
the voice, body and imagination, there is a craft to being a sharer of tales which is deeply
artistic and can ripple out into all our realms of communication and connection.
Over the two days, we will play with useful tools for memorising stories and bringing them
to life. Everyone will have a chance to work on a traditional tale to share at the end of the
second day.
Expect games, exercises and lots of invitations to dance with your own creativity (probably
some dancing dancing too!), transferable skills for your wider work and time to explore the
wisdom of the old tales we’ve handed down through generations.
Traditional storytelling is a fabulous skill for actors and performers, public speakers and
presenters, facilitators and space holders, as well as anyone who enjoys spending time with
their own creativity and sharing joyful journeys into the imagination. No previous
performance experience required, and plenty of stretch for professional performers at the
same time.
ABOUT HANNAH MOORE
Hannah Moore (she/her) is an associate teacher at the School of Storytelling and works internationally with Restorative Justice organisations delivering story-based training.
Starting out in dance-theatre, she made shows that told fairytales through spectacles of dance styles from all over the world. She then went on to study Contemporary Circus at Circomedia and in 2015 she had a BBC Fellowship in folk dance with the National Centre for Folk Arts.
Hannah has worked as a creative producer, theatre maker and arts practitioner in a wide variety of community and professional contexts including theatres, museums, festivals arts centres nationwide. Her focus is multidisciplinary and her work is about creating opportunities for people to connect with themselves and others.
