explore language...........take risks........... excite the imagination...
A philosohpy..
Joseph Campbell has always made sense to me (maybe because he was married to a dancer!) he wrote once "what people hunger for most is a sense of being alive" that sparkle which we sing and dance to and the world that comes to life with the stories in our head.
The great thing in storytelling is it contains every shade, is a journey we can explore, language that can excite the imagination, hang information on, take risks with and be beautiful all at the same time.
Some of that magic dust ...children telling Creation Myths in dance drama at The Custom's House 2003
I love to keep exploring different ways of sharing story telling with others sometimes giving children a chance to perform know stories or get the confidence to tell their own! The above was from a storytelling festival we created NorthTyneside in 2009 (with the support once again of the Custom's House) to give over 200 children a chance to dance, act, sing and tell stories. They also had a wonderful opportunity to have workshops with talented artists such as Curtis Jobling of 'Bob the Builder Fame', 'Sandra Kerr' co writer of the much loved Bagpuss, puppet masters from Puppet ship and Northumberland muscian and story teller Margaret Watchorn.
Now to the future....
As we to look into 2011 fully aware we will have to work harder to offer these opportunites to young people it seems to me even more important to share with you some ideas, plans and projects. So a new challenge for me...blogging, a new story to share in the best way possible
eye to eye........ mind to mind ..................and heart to heart
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