Society for Storytelling

Time: 24-30 October 2010

Date(s): 24/10/2010

Price: Cost per person, excluding travel - £380

Venue: Amari, Crete

Town: Greece

Storyteller(s): Hugh Lupton and musician Ross Daly

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Website: http://www.friends-of-amari.org

A 7day residential master workshop for experienced storytellers and/or musicians to explore how the disciplines of music and the spoken word can work together to heighten the listener’s experience.
This is a rare chance to work on Greek mythological material in the landscape that generated it with a world renowned storyteller and lyricist, specialising in British and Classical mythology, who has worked intensively with Greek myth and a musician who is one of the greatest exponents of the music of the Eastern Mediterranean.
The course will use Ovid’s ‘Metamorphoses’ as its source material, using the Greek rather than the Roman pantheon… and wherever possible linking with local sites and will include shared walks into the landscape and freedom for participants to wander and explore for themselves.
 
The plan is for tellers and musicians to work separately at first. Musicians working with Ross and exploring some of the indiginous melodic forms. Storytellers working with Hugh and developing stories from the Metamorphoses. Mid-week storytellers and musicians will begin to collaborate, developing performances that combine music and myth, that explore the spoken, chanted and sung word and the music that underpins it. The week will end with a concert. 

This master workshop is for experienced storytellers or musicians or both.