Storytelling workshop with The Oh-Aissieux and Kay Scorah

dublin | arts and media | event notice Friday January 28, 2011 16:53 by The Oh-Aissieux - Narrative Arts Club narrativearts at gmail dot com 0860603818

Bringing innovation and improvisation to Irish storytelling

Storytelling workshop with The Oh-Aissieux and Kay Scorah.
Odessa Club, Dame Court, Dublin 2. Saturday 5 February from 11am to 4pm.
Donations will go towards non-profit promotion of innovative storytelling.
To request a place on this workshop, please send your contact details:
by e-mail to narrativearts@gmail.com or by text to 086 060 3818.

There will be masks!

One of Ireland's most innovative professional storytellers, accompanied by one of our most experienced teachers of improvisation and non-verbal communications, invites you to learn the secrets of un-writing and embodying the traditional tale for live peformance.

Workshop leader Coilín "The Oh-Aissieux" is the founder-director of the Narrative Arts Club, which has been bringing innovative storytelling to audiences in Dublin city centre since September 2005. Coilín has also performed storytelling shows for the students' unions at both the National College of Art and Design (NCAD) and the Institute of Art, Design and Technology (IADT), the de Bono Foundation and the Royal Dublin Society (RDS). Most recently, he has collaborated with storyteller Adam Wilson and musicians Rich Flynn and Claire Fitch to present Inuit and ancient Irish tales within original electronic soundscapes.

For this workshop, Coilín is joined by the delightful Kay Scorah, who will introduce participants to "embodied storytelling".

Kay studied acting at the Beverly Hills Playhouse in 1988/89 and has since continued to train in dance and theatre forms from contemporary to contact improvisation through Butoh to Bouffon. In 2009 she appeared in the Fluxus show directed by Larry Miller in Dublin, and in One Penny Operas with Myriad Dance in Wexford and Dublin. And she presented her own show, Never Look in the Mirror when You're Dancing, featuring Jessica and Megan Kennedy, in the Dublin Fringe Theatre Festival 2010.

In this workshop, you will gain confidence in:
Breathing new life into old folktales for live performance.
Embodying your stories in movement and gesture.
Evoking a diversity of emotional responses from your audience.

The workshop will provide you with everything you need - including texts and masks! All you have to bring is a set of comfortable clothes, including good socks.

To request a place on this workshop, please send your contact details:
by e-mail to narrativearts@gmail.com
or by text to 086 060 3818

For full details of this and other storytelling events in Dublin and elsewhere, please see the website of the Narrative Arts Club: