Folktales

Revisiting tales as characters | finding hidden dimensions

By Limor Shiponi G’s homework was: tell Rapunzel repeatedly as it would be told by each of the characters in the first person. He came back a week later and told me all the characters’ versions of the story. These were G’s understandings following the assignment: Not all the characters are aware of the entire …

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Storytelling | being committed to the event

By Limor Shiponi Pulse: I’ve read only half of Rapunzel, didn’t do anything with it, and I’ve practiced the Gorky story. “Can you tell me whatever you have from ‘Rapunzel’?” G reported about the plot shortly, using a mish-mash of popular psychology and emotional kitsch. I repeated his ‘version’ to him. “What do you think …

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