Re: “Denver storytelling shows reach back (way back) for live entertainment,” Oct. 17 Entertainment story.
Itap exciting to read about the “recent proliferation” of storytelling shows along the Front Range. For 26 years I’ve been a professional storyteller, one of many offering workshops, residencies and performances across Colorado, the U.S. and overseas. Those of us who practice and teach this fundamental and powerful art are both gratified and befuddled to see “great storytelling” regularly applied as highest praise to other art forms (dance, writing, filmmaking, etc.), while the actual practice of the traditional, highly interactive and adaptive art of storytelling itself is too often disregarded.
People quoted in the article referred to the pleasure, spontaneity, richness, participation and “ancestral” character of storytelling. The 1970s storytelling revival movement has had a subculture of passionate followers who know all this well, primarily through engagement with traditional/multicultural stories, but personal narratives also — and itap great to see storytelling highlighted in the Denver Post. Thank you.
Pam Faro, Broomfield
This letter was published in the Oct. 26 edition.
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