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STORYTELLING WORKSHOPS

Diane Edgecomb leading Voice Workshop

STORYTELLING WORKSHOPS

Diane’s innovative workshops are inspirational! Those new to storytelling are helped to discover their unique voice while seasoned professionals develop new skills to enhance their work.

Diane Leads Storytelling WorkshopThe Art and Craft of Storytelling

Seasoned storytellers and beginners alike benefit from Diane’s hands-on storytelling workshops. Learn techniques for vocal expressiveness, discover how to create believable characters and enliven your narrative and story-making abilities. Experience the Power of Story!

Storytelling for Historical Interpretation

All About Voice: This in-depth workshop covers vocal care, placement of the voice for maximum effect and minimum effort, using the voice expressively and more. Find out why it is not only “what you communicate” but how you use your vocal instrument that gives your presentation maximum impact.
Outside the Box! Creative ways to bring History Alive: With over thirty years as a professional storyteller and theatre artist, Diane’s workshop for interpreters brings unique and innovative ways to bring history alive. From working with dialogue and characters to improvising around the objects that occur in historic places. Diane’s unusual exercises open up fresh perspectives galvanizing guides and audiences alike.
Anecdote to Story: You have the thread of a story but how to weave it into whole cloth? Diane takes participants through the steps that bring a story seed to a fully realized gem. As a tour guide, your story needs to be short but that doesn’t mean it needs to be thin! Find out how to augment your anecdotes in ways that make it enticing to your audience. A special section on entertaining families with young children and their special challenges is included. Coaching of individuals on their particular stories is an integral part of the workshop learning.

Storytelling in Nature Education

For over a decade, Diane has been a leader in developing innovative ways to link storytelling and the natural world, these workshops are especially for nature, science and environmental educators.

Diane Edgecomb, Elementary School, WorkshopsElementary School Workshops and Residencies

Diane leads workshops for classroom educators and for students themselves.

Individual Coaching

Diane leads one-on-one private coaching for those wishing to develop their storytelling skills and enhance stage-presence. Sessions focus on problem solving for upcoming performance pieces and developing the full expressive potential of each individual.

NOTE: Workshops are also available in Zoom or other interactive online formats.

NEW!

Are you a performer and theatre artist as well as a storyteller? Don’t miss the special workshops and talks on Actor Training based on Diane’s newest book: Source Work for Actors.

WORKSHOPS AND TALKS TO ACCOMPANY DIANE’S NEWEST BOOK:

Source Work for Actors: in Workshop with Zbigniew Cynkutis of Grotowski’s Laboratory Theatre

Book Cover: Source Work for Actors: In Workshop with Zbigniew Cynkutis of Grotowski's Laboratory TheatreBOOK TALKS FOR UNIVERSITY THEATER PROGRAMS BOOK STORES/LIBRARY SERIES  This Multi-media presentation introduces the process and practice of Growtowski’s Laboratory Theatre. Through the perspective of an acting student in a intensive workshop experience with Zbigniew Cynkutis one of the Theatre Lab’s leading actors. Rare audio of Cynkutis leading work are also shared.

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SOURCE WORK FOR ACTORS – AN EXPLORATORY WORKSHOP
Working with the linked elements of Voice/Body/Image this workshop explores ways to develop the core expressive elements of each individual’s instrument. A special focus on work with the voice as it reveals and manifests itself through both truth and intention. Text work, working with developing the impulses that underlie a character and the deep resources for work to be found in the natural world will all be sourced. The Plastiques (also called the Rotations and Elements) as a basis for the life of the body and interaction with objects and the intensive Vocal work developed by Cynkutis will also be explored.