stor ytent
A recording of Alastair's live online performance during the Covid-19 crisis for
the World Storytelling Cafe Alastair K. Daniel is a performance storyteller,
researcher, writer and consultant in storytelling (and related fields) working
in the UK and abroad. Following twelve years touring schools in the UK and the
Low Countries with The Story Tent, in 2010 Alastair made the move from
professional storytelling to academia. In the summer of 2022, Alastair ended his
term as Principal Lecturer in Primary English at the University of Roehampton in
2022 to focus on storytelling once more, and develop his work as an independent
scholar. Alastair's 'Story Tent' style brings traditional and literary texts to
life through physicalisation, puppets, masks, costumes, artefacts, rhymes and
songs - creating performances in which the distinction between performer and
audience become blurred. The Story Tent project came out of Alastair's use of
storytelling as a teaching strategy with children with profound emotional and
behavioural difficulties. He found that storytelling (contrasted with
story-reading) provided a unique method of drawing children, who often had
difficulties with imaginative play, into new worlds. As a consultant and
researcher, Alastair has worked with a range of organisations and specialises in
the application of oral storytelling in educational contexts and the use of
narrative analysis to evaluate educational programmes.
