EVENT ARCHIVES
Women and Storytelling
with Vayu Naidu
This workshop took place on October 30-31 2004 at the Nuffield Theatre, Lancaster
Vayu Naidu is a storyteller and artistic director of the Vayu Naidu Company, a company dedicated to new writing for theatre and performance storytelling of the diaspora. She is Lecturer in drama at the University of Kent, Canterbury. She performs solo and conducts process and performance workshops on storytelling.
Further information can be found on her website at
"The most impressive part was that she embodied the Ganasha's story through her own storytelling in front of us... That gave me specific ideas and emotional experience of how she tells stories with subtle movement of Indian culture and the words that she chooses as well as the comments she makes about the contemporary relevance of the story and the themes in it. I found her sample work was amazingly effective in extending my knowledge of the Indian storytelling tradition.
I also found that the emotional core that she stressed in the workshop as the centre of her technique of storytelling very inspiring. ... I found this workshop helped me to experience storytelling in an intercultural contextand was especially inspired when she talked about how she meditates on the landscape of the story before she tells it.
It is fascinating to think about how every culture has a specific space and place and leads me to think about the relationship and interaction between memory, space, culture and body. It has helped me to develop my ongoing research into the direction of intercultural theatre studies and its ways of practice and meanings."
WJW