In this presentation, we will explore mythological images, story worlds and storytelling practices that bridge the human and the more-than-human. Fragments from the Finnish-Karelian Kalevala and the Welsh Mabinogion become portals into mindsets and embodied experiences of storytellers and folk healers that didn’t conceive of stories as being authored by humans, but as being overheard in the forest, found in the rain, gleaned from the whispers of trees and told as spells of transformation.
Bios
Jo Blake is an interdisciplinary performance maker working across storytelling, dance and theatre. She has worked professionally as a storyteller since 2005 and has a PhD in Contemporary Storytelling Practices from the University of Chichester, and an MA in Dance Theatre from Trinity Laban. She is co-founder of the Anima Mundi School of Storytelling, Her most recent project, HERESY, is a multi-stranded art project inspired by the Gospel of Mary Magdalene.
www.jo-blake.co.uk
Mikael Öberg is a Swedish storyteller and performer that creates work based on mythology in international cross-arts collaborations for theatre stages, festivals, caves, schools, museums, derelict industrial spaces and the outdoors.
His work draws heavily on research of various worldwide story worlds and storytelling practices and is informed by experiences of living oral storytelling traditions in places like Morocco and India.
@mikaelobergstoryteller
Bios
Jo Blake is an interdisciplinary performance maker working across storytelling, dance and theatre. She has worked professionally as a storyteller since 2005 and has a PhD in Contemporary Storytelling Practices from the University of Chichester, and an MA in Dance Theatre from Trinity Laban. She is co-founder of the Anima Mundi School of Storytelling, Her most recent project, HERESY, is a multi-stranded art project inspired by the Gospel of Mary Magdalene.
www.jo-blake.co.uk
Mikael Öberg is a Swedish storyteller and performer that creates work based on mythology in international cross-arts collaborations for theatre stages, festivals, caves, schools, museums, derelict industrial spaces and the outdoors.
His work draws heavily on research of various worldwide story worlds and storytelling practices and is informed by experiences of living oral storytelling traditions in places like Morocco and India.
@mikaelobergstoryteller