Effective storytelling performance skills are demonstrated through:

Vocal Skills

• The teller uses appropriate volume, employs clear enunciation, and uses non-monotonous vocal expression.

Facial expression

•  The teller uses appropriate facial gesture to clarify or
•  complement the text

Body Language

• The teller uses appropriate non-verbal communication to clarify or exemplify
• meaning. The teller makes clear spatial relationship between characters and
• narrator.

Placement

• The teller uses space to give a definite place to objects used and imagined.

Focus

• Concentration is clear. The teller makes direct eye contact with all members of the audience. A definite stage presence is demonstrated.

Characterisation

• Dialogue is employed and the tellers voice and body language is apposite.

Pace & Time

• The teller presents the story efficiently and holds the listeners attention throughout.

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