By Limor Shiponi The real question, posed by a someone who arrived to “check out” the possibility of joining an intermediate storytelling course, sounded slightly different – I’m a storyteller. What do I need to improve on?!!! I had a bold answer which I didn’t speak-up. Instead, I used my Jewish birth-right to answer a …
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By Limor Shiponi It has happened that I’ve participated more than once in an event outside Israel, where people introduced me as, “please welcome Limor, she’s from Israel and she’s going to tell us Jewish stories”. My immediate inner reaction was, “hell not” which I didn’t speak out loud of course, but went on telling …
By Limor Shiponi I have this ‘big’ story, or signature story as we call it. I’ve been around and into it for nine years now and although audience members and the people around me are very excited about my performance – I’m not satisfied and therefore refrain from telling it all over the place as …
An ‘in story’ experience that helpes me with storyteller’s block Read More »
By Limor Shiponi Just an early morning thought… reading hype descriptions about ‘cool’ story production and distributing possibilities and wishes for a future of endless unlimited choice; to move from a movie scene into a game episode that will send the traveler to endless paths, roaming past and future worlds; meeting with new sound tracks …
By Limor Shiponi Thinking about storytelling skills can become a complicated task considering its reciprocal nature and the presence of three partners: The witnesses can be many different people for every telling, each one of them a universe within a universe Stories are many too and they go through changes and influences The storyteller himself …
In search of a storytelling ‘grid’ | part VIII | Storytelling skills Read More »