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Have you heard of storytelling?
Imagine if Vasily Shuskshin, Mikhail Zoshchenko, Sergei Dovlatov or Yevgeny Grishkovetz had always performed their stories, and each story could have become a song, a little performance, a literary-theatrical event.
Simply speaking, storytelling is the art of telling stories so that you will never go away without listening to the end. It requires active listening. It returns us to our childhood when we were eagerly waiting for the story with a happy ending.
In the framework of the 4th Moscow International Public Book festival Jan Blake, the professional storyteller visited Moscow.
Jan gave 2 performances on June 10 2009 for adult audience in O.G.I. project (Potapovsky side street, 8/12, budling 2) and on June 11 2009 for children in Central House of Artist (Krymski Val, 10).
Jan was born in Manchester to Jamaican parents. she has been a professional storyteller for more than 20 years.
She has an international reputation for dynamic, witty, exciting storytelling. Specialising in stories from Africa and the Caribbean Jan is currently one of Europe’s leading female storytellers.
She has featured at all the major storytelling festivals in Europe, she performs and runs storytelling workshops. Jan has worked as an artist in residence at various theatres throughout Britain and in doing so has developed close links with theatres such as The Royal National Theatre, The London Philharmonic Orchestra, The Lyric Theatre Hammersmith and Battersea Arts Centre. In 2004 she took the American National Storytelling Festival by storm.
«Becoming a Storyteller - telling tales»
«Becoming a Storyteller - in the beginning»
Jan performs live – watch video on YouTube
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