story telling an art of connecting

Many people have told stories to their children through the ages to convey a message of ideas, of heritage, of whats right or wrong, or to just simply amuse. We are all story tellers in our daily lives when we communicate to our co-workers and our families of our daily going-ons. We tell of our ride on the subway to work and how we narrowly missed being caught by the slamming door, to nearly falling into the path of a speeding car, and we tend to embellish our day with a few colorful pictures or words to entice the listener to pay close attention. We need to be heard and listened to as a society today, and with all the media around it is hard to keep the attention of our audience without a few good plot twists. The professional story tellers will tell you it is maintaining eye contact through out the entire story that gets the audience of one, or one thousand hanging on every word. Debbie Dunn a professional story teller has said looking the audience in the eye makes them believe they are helping the story along, and they get more involved in the story if they feel apart of the story. Donald Davis a professional story teller as well states there are five languages of story telling ;attitude, sound, gesture, listener, and words. With attitude we create subtle emotion, with sound we give words all kinds of meanings, with gesture our actions speak louder than the words alone could, the words we choose convey a clear message, and most important the listener who guides the story and leads the story teller through the story by their responses. Story telling has become a popular art form in comedians preformance there is either a long base line story that gets dragged along as the audience responds, or a number of quick story lines run together in a short span of time usually along the same topic. Whichever form of story telling is being listened to, all of the stories are entertaining to the audience and preformed with the listener as the driving force of the story, and we will continue to tell stories for the future generations to hear and remember because it is in our nature as human beings.




  http://www.callofstory.org/en/tales/languages.asp
http://professionalstoryteller.ning.com/
http://moredunntales.com/