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A Telling Experience • 828-280-2718
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When asked: What would you tell other schools about your experience with the program and interaction with the artist? Hereʼs what teachers have to say:
Great Storyteller. He was engaging and so fun to watch
I recommend this artist whole-heartedly.
He is very positive and professional. He did a great job with a large crowd but I bet it would be even better in a smaller setting.
He was very nice and did a great job.
The artist is simple but effective, sharing tradi-tions from a variety of cultures.
Kept the students attention. Great presence on stage with the students.
Great. Lively. Funny. Fun.
Highly recommend. Very engaging storyteller, pleasant to work with and flexible with pro-gramming
Very professional and great storyteller!
He was very entertaining.
It was a wonderful program!
Very easy to work with. Adapts program to dif-ferent age groups very carefully.
David enchants students atWestern Academy of Beijing.
I take the business of telling stories seriously.
Listening to stories develops:
Emotional IntelligencePattern RecognitionCultural AwArenessProblem-SolvingEmpathy
A Telling Experience!
David Novak combines the simple magic of theatre with the evocative movements and voices of the master story-teller. Recipient of the Circle of Excellence Award from the National Storytelling Network, Novak is a master of all storytelling genres bringing hundreds of stories to life. Whether performing at the National Storytelling Festival be-fore thousands or in front of a small group of wide-eyed children, audiences savor each sentence and anxiously an-ticipate the next. His love of telling is inescapable.
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Artist Background: When the truth reveals itself, we call it A Telling Experience. David Novak tells stories to enhance learning, engage emotion, and find common ground. A performing and teaching artist with the Lincoln Center Institute, L.A. Music Center, festivals and institutes across the nation. David's tours abroad include New Zealand, Asia, and the Czech Republic. A Master Storyteller for The Disney Institute, he was awarded the Circle of Excellence from the National Storytelling Network, and is often featured at the National Storytelling Festival. He has a background in arts education, theatre, and creative writing and is a published author and recording artist.
Space Requirements: A performance area of at least 10'x10'. Performance space to be protected from the elements.
Technical Requirements: Sound system to be provided by the Client (microphone on a stand, no podiums) where the space requires acoustic support or the audience exceeds 100. A stool, small table, and water are requested.
First Books
Program Abstract: With Finger Plays, Paper Folds, and Strings, David Novak shows how tellers made the first books.
Program Type: PerformanceGrade Level: K-5Artistic Discipline: StorytellingCultural Origin: African; Asian; European; Native American; Pacific Islander
Program Description: Books hold stories. Storytellers told stories with finger plays, rhyme schemes, or string figures, long before writing was invented. Your students will gain an expanded definition of Reading as a behavior that involves seeing and interpretation; define Books as devices for holding stories; see a variety of skills to make oral presentation en-gaging and informative. "First Books" includes a retelling of Itsy Bitsy Spider as an heroic epic, original finger plays, paper, and string stories. David draws a distinction between the story and the text. "Storytellers," he explains, "always had words. What they wanted to preserve was the memory of the story so they made books from hand gestures with finger plays, or wove a tale using string figures." His final story is his popular string figure retelling of Jack and the Beanstalk, also available as a picture book. Participation, physical and vocal histrionics, clever language, and creative use of objects engages all listen-ers.
The Storytellers' Fire
Program Abstract: A solo performance of many story types with original treatments of folklore, myth, and memoir.
Program Type: PerformanceGrade Level: K-5Artistic Discipline: StorytellingCultural Origin: African; Asian; European; Latino; Middle Eastern; Native American; Pacific Islander
Program Description: Listening to stories develops: emotional intelligence, pattern recognition, creative problem-solving, cultural awareness, and empathy for others. In both form and content, The Storytellers’ Fire directly addresses Essential Standards in Theatre Arts and Common Core Standards for English Language Arts such as Key Ideas and Details; Craft and Structure; Phonological Awareness and Fluency. Students also explore core concepts in Science for Inquiry, Systems, Processes, and Change as they explore the natural world for ancient patterns that create new stories. A Telling Experience addresses The Revised Bloom's Taxonomy in Cognitive Processes such as Explaining and Inferring: Folk narratives abound with cause-and-effect plot structures such as the cumulative tale; in The Knowledge Dimension such as Concep-tual Knowledge and Meta-Cognitive Knowledge. Careful selection of material, opportunities to participate, and the asso-ciations formed between stories involve the listener.
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Story Weaving
Program Abstract: Learn to create and “tie up” a story with creative storytelling and shoe strings!
Program Type: Workshop/ResidencyGrade Level: 3+Artistic Discipline: StorytellingCultural Origin: Multi
Program Description: David Novak will introduce students to the art of using string as a storytelling technique and demonstrate its use in a variety of traditional and original string stories. Students will participate in creative activities such as developing a story on a shoestring which requires teamwork, experimentation, evaluation, refining and presentation. Novak will introduce the use of string figures for the presentation of oral narratives in world cultures including African, Native American, Polynesian, Asian, and European. The residency culminates in a public presentation of student work.
Tally Up!
Program Abstract: This workshop combines Math with Language Arts using 'magic pictures' to practice story calculus.
Program Type: Workshop/ResidencyGrade Level: 3-5Artistic Discipline: STEM; Storytelling; Theatre; Visual ArtsCultural Origin: None
Program Description: Writing of language and the recording of stories, emerged from tallying and record-keeping. Today, the word “tell” continues to mean “tally.” A Bank Teller, counts money; a Story Teller recounts events. They must both be able to manage various equations; the one involves numbers, the other involves narrative. Beginning with simple nursery rhymes then progressing through folk lore and literature, we learn to make effective stories while developing related mathematical skills. Tally Up! addresses Essential Standards in Theatre Arts and Common Core Standards for English Lan-guage Arts such as Key Ideas and Details; Craft and Structure; Phonological Awareness and Fluency. Students explore con-cepts in Science for Inquiry, Systems, Processes, and Change. Tally Up! addresses The Revised Bloom's Taxonomy in Cog-nitive Processes for Explaining and Inferring with cause-and-effect plot structures such as the chain story.
Tell Me About It: A Telling Experience in Learning
Program Abstract: A professional development workshop on applications of storytelling skills in the classroom.
Program Description: Storyteller and Teaching Artist, David Novak, shares strategies for integrating storytelling and oral-ity into classroom curricula. The Telling Experience develops: emotional intelligence, pattern recognition, creative problem-solving, cultural awareness, and empathy for others. Storytelling directly addresses Essential Standards in Theatre Arts and Common Core Standards for English Language Arts such as Key Ideas and Details; Craft and Structure; Phonological Awareness and Fluency. In an integral curriculum, storytelling can facilitate exposure to core concepts in Science for In-quiry, Systems, Processes, and Change by exploring the natural world for narrative patterns. A Telling Experience nurtures Cognitive Processes such as Explaining and Inferring; Conceptual and Meta-Cognitive Knowledge. This workshop presents a number of “Story Mind” activities to develop awareness and language skills for describing, ex-plaining, and expressing.
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