You are cordially invited to DEALL Speaker Series
Building Performances: Learning about Teaching Culture from Shandong Fast Tale Storytellers
Eric Shepherd
Friday, April 20 3:30~5:00Place TBA
Summary of Talk
Shandong fast tales is an artistic form of traditional Chinese storytelling that is learned through a regimen of performance based training. The transmission practices utilized by master fast tale storytellers while training new performers offer one time-tested model for constructing and internalizing long-term memories of enactable segments of Chinese culture. The experiences of these professional performers demonstrate that complex cultural performances that are rooted in everyday cultural practices can be consciously built over time through a cyclical rehearsal cycle and a regimen of story-based performance. By making their folk pedagogy of performance explicit, this talk intends to offer insights into the processes involved in developing the ability to perform everyday cultural behaviors as well as those associated with constructing narrative-based memory.
Next talk:
May 30
Prof. Yu Li, Williams College
Title: TBA
*If you have any questions, please contact Prof. Etsuyo Yuasa (yuasa.1@osu.edu) or Matthew Chudnow (chudnow.1@osu.edu).
