Oral storytelling as artistic research was a pilot course that was organised in autumn 2020 as a cooperation between Oslomet metropolitan university, department of Art, Design and Drama and Federation for European storytelling (FEST). This was a master level course and gave five ECTS. The idea of building the course, was that 2/3 should take place via digital platforms and 1/3 was planned to be physical presence in the same physical space in Oslo, Norway. Due to Covid19, the entire course 2020, including the exams, was done digitally. The course was finished 30th of October 2020 with an exam that consisted of a solo performance and a written paper.

CONTENT

The course covers two main areas: oral storytelling as performative artform, artistic research and theory.

Oral storytelling as performative - and verbal artform

• storytelling practice
• advanced explorative training
• organisation and management of process and production

Artistic research and Theory

• artistic research methodology
• performance theory

Mimesis Heidi Dahlsveen works as a storyteller since 1996 and tours national and international. She participated in a number of international festivals and in two EU projects that deal with oral storytelling.

She is an associate professor in oral storytelling at Oslo Metropolitan University and in 2008 she published the book "Introduction to oral storytelling", Universitetsforlaget, in 2019 a second book on the same topic was published. She has written several academic articles on oral storytelling, where she uses artistic research as an input to understanding oral storytelling and narratives. Her focus is on letting the traditional narratives shed light on contemporary themes. She is currently participating in her third EU project: Common future, common ground - a project that looks at how narratives are used to stigmatize and polarize and how narrative can be used in conflicts. She is a member of the research group «Art in society» and co-owner of Skaldskur AS.

is a professional storyteller and a researcher at the Institute of Studies in Tradition and Literature (New University of Lisbon) and the Centre of Research in Arts and Communication (University of Algarve). He has a degree in Theatre, a Master's Degree in Portuguese Studies (with the dissertation thesis Representations of Death in Portuguese Folktales) and a Ph.D. in Arts, Culture and Communication (with the thesis Oral Storytelling: A Performing Art).

Abbi Patrix trained at the Drama School Jacques Lecoq in Paris and has been exploring the art of storytelling for the past thirty years. His work is at the crossroads of theatre, music, and movement, and he is on a permanent quest for new ways and voices to enrich the form of storytelling. To transfer his research to young generations of storytellers, he created The Labo in France and a European Labo-offspring – a collective and multi-disciplinary space for research, improvisation, and transmission. He performs in French and English and he is a founding member of FEST.

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