Storytelling with salt and pepper

Length: 3 hours
Punctuality: Due to the nature of the topic, every participant must do exercises to be in the moment, I recommend to close the door after 20 minutes.

We all want to fill our stories and scenes with meaning. But do you we understand that our acting and directing skills as improvisers aren't enough for this lovely task? The key is to be a dramaturge and furnish those stories with a structure, characters with deep experiences and conflicts. We will focus on that dramaturge in us and how he/she enriches our storytelling.

At the end you will aknowledge that as improviser you not only have to have acting and directing skills, but also narrrative ones. You will build with confidence simple stores with complex characters and wnjoy the creation of those characters as much as setting the plot.

The key skills to learn are:

• Three roles of an improviser
• Importance of the dramaturge
• Basic structure of a story
• Building characters with experiences
• Developing the plot, finding a triggering event and resolutions

• Ask the students to explain their expectations before starting the workshop. This helps you understand what they are looking for
• Ask for feedback after each games to see if the students grasp the goals of them
• A short break of 5 minutes after 90 minutes gives smokers the opportunity to go outside and reloads the energy of the group

• Circle Up
• Hi-Ha-Ho
• Bunny:

This goal of this game is that students get into the mood of thinking more about others than themselves.

• Cross_Circle with Names, then eye contact
• 3 Different Sequences with a cities, fruits and cloths (movements, drinks, food, animals)
• I am a tree

When we are on stage, we represent characters and interact with other players inside the scene (actor role) and we all determine when to start or stop scenes and when to leave or enter the stage (director role). To feel our stories with meaning we need to lay out a basic structure for the story, with its characters, normality, triggering events and work on the conflicts between the roles (dramaturge role). This last role is often ignore leading to difficulties to tell stories. When we tell a story we liked we don't know what we did right because I are unaware of the importance of dramaturgie.

• Countdown - Replay
• Fast forward
• Vor oder danach
• Hesitation
• Last line

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