There is nothing in the world that I love more than an empty theater. It's full of possibilities. It's a blank page, a canvas. On that stage, I can be anyone, anywhere, at anytime. Where else can creativity live so fully?
This online blog is a way for us to extend our conversations that we start in class. It's where I'll think "out loud" about the things that are happening in class and invite you to respond. This is really our place to contemplate what theater means in our world and in our lives.
Let's start off with our first question. We're looking at the ancient art of storytelling in class and how we can learn the skills of a master storyteller. Is storytelling still relevant and important in today's information-driven, blog-filled world? Or will it fall by the wayside with Model T cars and the steam engine?
posted by Alicia Corts @ 12:25 PM
12 Comments:
I think storytelling is a very important part of life. As we learned in class, storytelling lead up to the thing we call theater today. So answering the question, ' is storytelling still relevant' in my opinion, storytelling is very relevant, i hope it will not slowly fade away, or disappear.With out storytelling what will there be?
I think storytelling is still very relavent. I don't think that it will die out because of all of the technology, but instead technology provides us with more ways to tell a story. Much what is on the internet, blogs, TV and movies is made up of storytelling. Technology is just another medium of entertaining and giving information. A story being told by actors in a theater is only one way for people to enjoy storytelling.
I disagree Meredith, and to those who think technology is story telling. How can technology be...well I guess it can be a way of telling stories, but is that really what Ms. Corts is asking? I think she is talking about oral story telling, and that is dying everyday because technology is getting in the way. But as I said before, it should still stay alive as long as there are people who orally tell stories.
Story telling has existed since antediluvian times, and I firmly believe that the practice will never end until the earth ends by either fire or ice. Many things have survived technology, some examples that come to mind are: the clubs made of wood and stone in Paleolithic times, now made of titanium and graphite that are used to hit little white balls in the fascinating game of golf; theatre has survived almost as long as clubs, and now utilizes the latest and greatest modern technology; and of course the ancient fire that cavemen used to stare into has been replaced by the modern television, as is evident by the fact that the most popular channel over Christmas is the one showing a perpetually burning log. I think that one could even go so far as to say that the more technology we receive, the more story telling will grow to a favorite activity. Hey, isn't this overly long excerpt a form of storytelling? With all this modern technology, I can slop my ideas around all over the place! As long as Homo sapiens sapiens roam the earth, physically or digitally, storytellers can find their place, which gets larger all the time.
Story telling is some thing that will always be in human nature. We all have storys that we enjoy telling people because of what happend in the past or what their imagination will make up. Story telling is some thing in my mind that I enjoy doing telling stories of what I have done. Story Telling will never die out because of human nature.
Yes, i think that story telling is still relevant and important. what is it other than story telling when we walk in to our English, Bible, History, or Science classes. we are talking about and telling what has happened before and what will happen. and when little children go to sunday school what else are they learning by besides stories about Jesus from the Bible or hearing their parents tell them fairy tale stories to teach them a lesson or spur their imaginations. it doesnt matter how technological our world is becomeing, all that can crash at any minute but our talent spirit and hearts will live with the ablility to share the excitement through stories. we must never lose that.
I agree with the above. One minor technicality with the intro by Ms. Corts: the model T was never truly replaced, it was just improved upon while basic principles stayed the same; Ford still makes cars and trucks on assembly lines, and each car typically has four wheels and at least two doors. If I am correct, parts of the steam engines' design have been modeled in modern power sources, allowing it to "live on". If you consider these to be dead, then a toddler would die when they take their first step, speak their first words, and so on, and so forth.
I think storytelling is still relevant in this world because it is a way to pass stories down from one person to another. when you here someone telling a story there seems to be more emotion and feelings to it. I think technology will help storytrlling because it will help peole remember the stories. Everyone likes to hear someone tell a story because it takes us back to our oldtime roots and lets us enjoy the stories more. So i think storytelling will continue for many more years
I think that storying telling will never end and will keep going for generation and genertaion. This is how we got some of our history was from story telling. This is also a time when families can get together and tell stories of what happened to them or stories about there parents or grandparents.
I think that storytelling will keeps family history alive.
I think that storytelling will never go away completly. it will become less and less as more electronics and other ways of entertainment are invented. This will happen only becasue people are always looking for the latest and greatest ways to have fun and don't want to have to resodrt back to the very first form of entertainment we ever had. It was the first way that people were able to express themselves and act in a way different than normal life. As modern inventions stop working and trends come in and out storytelling will always be there just as good as it was one the first brave person stood up and did it.
I disagree with you Clair, in that technology can only spread the use of storytelling. After all, as we have seen through history, storytelling has developed from small groups of people telling stories to large-scale theater productions, and eventually to television, online broadcasts, musical productions, and various other production types including theater and plain old storytelling.
The art of storytelling will never die as long as there are new and brilliant minds being born each day, with the power of a supernova the budding intelectual nubiles create masterpieces year after year like the greats before them they break down wall's and humble generals, and politicians. That my friend is why stoytelling will never die.
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