I am one of the performers in our story, "Dancing with the Devil." I play the main character's mom and do the music. I only have about two lines but that's not very important right now. I guess I lack the charismatic voice that is needed to tell the story because I add emotions to sentences that aren't supposed to have that emotion. I don't know. I can't really explain it that well. Anyways, storytelling is quite a lot harder than our school librarian in elementary school had made it seem. (I seem to be discovering that everything drama-related is a lot harder than it looks at first). The balance between dramatizing the story and just speaking it is hard to achieve. Storytelling is an art that takes skill and the ability to keep the audience focused on what you are saying while showing them a bit of what is actually happening. I never thought of it that way before. It used to be that storytelling, for me, was just reciting a story that you had heard from somewhere else before. Storytelling is very strongly connected to the culture of a country or region.
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