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March 21, 2006

Storytelling from the Heart: Casting the Golden

After ten years of working professionally as a storyteller, I began teaching through the thriving local adult education system. We worked on vocal variation, sound effects, character voices, use of props and a little mime. But we also worked a lot on the inner critic, by doing three things: a creative visualization, practicing something called "Casting the Golden Net" as well as doing an exercise designed to cultivate a witness consciousness. This can be used to counteract free floating performance anxieties. The latter two are exercises I learnt while studying full time at The Drama Action Centre in Sydney (or D.A.C) when it was directed by Bridget Brandon

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Posted by Mel at March 21, 2006 11:40 AM