Expressive Storytelling: Enhancing your storytelling with Laban Movement

Expressive Storytelling: Enhancing your storytelling with Laban Movement

We all know how important movement, gesture and voice are in storytelling.

What we sometimes are not aware of is our own signature movement/ vocal patterns or how to enhance them in a systematic and skilful way.

Rudolph Laban was a mid-20th century artist and observer of movement. He devised a system of movement that has been so integrated in actor training and physical education and even physical rehabilitation that we have lost the foundations of his contributions.

As a trained and certified Laban Integrated Movement Analyst, Laura has had 30 years of applying his work in theatre and education.

This workshop requires no prior experience and ensures you with a toolkit to build your Storytelling skills and expressivity for years to come. The system, like any rich system, can be simple to learn and take a lifetime to master.

Participants will:

• move through the 4 basic Effort factors and apply them in small groups, games, and small tell and share stories which we will ‘play back’ for each other as comfort levels support.
• explore Laban’s Effort Factors, his basic Spatial Harmony principles which will help you approach your storytelling environment and audience in unique and rewarding ways

Suitable for:

• anyone who desires to tell stories expressively
• teachers or parents who want to embody the learning of words through movement
• teachers or parents who want to reach a variety of learning styles including kinesthetics, auditory, visual, and social learners.
• drama practitioners

About Laura:

• Motivated acting professional with 9 years in Playback theater
• Active listener with excellent oral and written communication skills
• Dependable, responsible and enthusiastic with experience in Tisch Asia short films and winner of Singapore Monologue Slam.
• Active community theater experience with over 20 years of successful experience in acting
• Direction and leadership on Jakarta Players Board.
• Recognized for collaborative excellence and contributions to team building and group dynamics.