Folk Tales: The Art of Narration and Other Performing Arts

Theatre Summer Camp – Pilio 2018, Greece 
26/8-1/9/2018, Agios Ioannis Beach Pilio Greece
Hellenic Theatre/Drama & Education Network  (www.TheatroEdu.gr)

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Short WORKSHOP

Folk Tales: The Art of Narration and Other Performing Arts

Eirini  Marna, teacher, theater educator, storyteller

   Language: Greek

The workshop is addressed to teachers of all levels and to all those who love folk tales.

Is narration a form of art related to theater or other forms of performing arts or is it something different ? The narrator '' sets up '' and prepares  his/her narrations like the actor or follows a “lonely” way until he/she comes to share the fairy tale with others? 

In this three-hour workshop we will deal with the folk tale “ Trisevgeny and the Three Citrus” and we will try to answer the above questions. We will propose ways of presenting this tale, using different theatre techniques.

Eirini  Marna is a teacher, theater educator and storyteller. She holds a degree in Preschool Education of the Aristotle University of Thessaloniki Greece (1995-1999) and Postgraduate Studies in Theater in Education in the United Kingdom, University of Exeter (2000-2001), MA in Applied Drama, and France (DEA, Etudes Theatrales (2003-2004) University of Sorbonne Nouvelle-Paris III). She has participated in various Theatre in Education programs, has organized seminars of Drama in Education, in primary and secondary education and has collaborated with drama groups. She teaches various theatrical techniques in amateur theater groups of adults and directs their theatrical performances. She has participated in storytelling seminars in Greece and France, and she likes to narrate the fairytales that she loves. She works in a public primary school She is a facilitator and trainer in the project “it could be me- it could be you’’, which is implemented by the Hellenic Theater/Drama &r Education Network (TENet-Gr) in partnership with the UNHCR, the UN Refugee Agency.