tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1285009.post7288223030006084535..comments2023-12-30T06:06:51.940-08:00Comments on Breaking the Eggs: Elitist Storytelling Reported in Oklahoma! (The State, not the Musical)Timhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15432302620700328040noreply@blogger.comBlogger1125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1285009.post-11649545746764751052008-07-15T06:18:00.000-07:002008-07-15T06:18:00.000-07:00I would agree, hiring a professional is not elitis...I would agree, hiring a professional is not elitist - but that was not the point. In many places, and not just in Oklahoma, others have defined what the art form is and not storytellers. They have one image in their head (usually based on some storyteller whose style really connected with them...) and that becomes the type they hire...over and over and over again. I know of one man who calls himself a storyteller but who is really a one man stage show. He has defined for many of the libraries and schools what storytelling is and made it difficult for storytellers who do not leap about the stage and get the audience screaming to find work. As you now from reading all my entries, I support a vast array of storytelling forms and partnerships but hold true to the idea that storytelling is a singlur art form. The elitists are like the art museum that defines art as only realism and the art patron who can not see any art in cubism. That disconnect of understanding was at the heart of what I tried to convey. Sorry if I failed in that..MARILYN A. HUDSON, MLIShttps://www.blogger.com/profile/08466575630754478836noreply@blogger.com