The first class-7/13

This is what I wrote for the first class-sorry a little slow but...

We discussed : The mind of a storyteller, point of view, way of thinking, the way of making connections and related to narrative and conversation and community and help us to understand the particular emotional life of the storyteller. This is going to be an opportunity for us to catch the more academically rigorous issues of storytelling in Advanced Storytelling. It is not a comprehensive task but it’s good for us to discuss and explore philosophical implications of being a storyteller in the present day. Focus on the practical work due to the time constrains.

Then we talked about the environment? How the environment of storytelling makes a difference. Open space. Val doesn’t like to keep turning. The definition of fourth wall is from 19th century in theater. It is to look at the world objectively. It was the rise of the age of science. It was thought Wouldn’t it be great if we can just observe performance and behavior objectively as if we were looking through a microscope or telescope, as we were looking at it from a distance what we called aesthetic distance. Allow the audience the aesthetic distance. The fourth wall is an invisible wall. The original idea is to separate the viewers but Kenny wanted to include them.

Storytelling:
Kenny: I lost my manhood in the cemetery on Halloween
Lethen: (don’t know the name)
Jui-tseng: Teeny Tiny
Katie: Bear and Brown Squirrel
Beth: Truth and False
Valerie: The first photographer
: Cow who lost the identity
Mi-Ryoung: The Dragon King
Lory: Family Ghost story
Elline: Blind man
David Novak: Story Land
Then we discuss the relations between the stories and the qualities of the stories. Good acting should still have elements of discovering. Like Yoga, even though you are doing the same actions but you are making new discoveries.

What are the stories saying to each other?