Master's course - Oral Storytelling as Artistic Research
APPLICATION DEADLINE extended 15 May 2020
This is a pilot course on masterlevel (5 ECTS) organised as a collaboration between The Federation for European Storytelling (FEST) and OsloMet.
Oral storytelling as an art form is a growing field in the contemporary performing art scene. This course places emphasis on the student’s academic and artistic ability to reflect, discuss and perform oral storytelling in line with socially relevant challenges.
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
COURSE RUN
The course starts 14th of September with exams on 14th and 15th of October.
The three first weeks of the course will be organized as online tutoring and teaching with online material, individual and in groups. One week of the course is organised as workshops and seminars at campus starting on the 5th of October. I addition the exam/the performances will be arranged at OsloMet.
Duration: Four weeks
REQUIREMENTS
Passed a bachelor degree + oral storytelling experience.
With storytelling experience, we mean that the student has studied oral storytelling either in a formal or informal context like public or private studies and workshops; and that they have performed in public settings like schools, libraries, festivals and the like. The oral storytelling experience is documented through the bio (See below).
APPLICATION REQUIREMENTS
- A 300 word biography, where he/she describes his/her storytelling experience: where did you study oral storytelling, with whom, what kind of performances have you made, where have you performed for what target group and which storytellers have you seen performing.
- A project description of max 250 words. This includes: background of the project, artistic description of the project, the relevance of the project, the aims of the project and the target group (audience) of the project. The project will be the focus of the course.

Mimesis Heidi Dahlsveen
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.

Luís Correia Carmelo
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
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.




