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Stories
What is it that Flows Between Us?
Stories from Shadow Cities
A spoken word performance by
Cybermohalla
11th and 12th March, 2004
Hamburg, Germany
Texts written and narrated by
Baby Tabassum
Dhirendar Pratap Singh
Kiran Verma
Kulvinder Kaur
Lakhmi Chand Kohli
Neelofar
Rakesh Kumar
Shahana Parveen
Shamsher
Suraj
Tripan Kumar
Yashoda
Performance workshop co-ordination
Shuddhabrata Sengupta
Sanya Ansari
Workshop Assistance
Aniruddha Shankar
Soundscape Production
Ashish Mahajan
Performance Technical Assistance
Aniruddha Shankar
Ashish Mahajan
Mrityunjay Chatterjee
Prabhat K. Jha
Shveta Sarda
Translations from Hindi to English:
Shveta Sarda
Paraphrasing Walter Benjamin,
"Storytelling is the art of repeating stories. Experience which is passed on
from mouth to mouth, in the speech of the many nameless storytellers, is the
source from which all storytellers have drawn. Stories - fairy tales,
legends, novellas - emerge from the oral and flow into it. Drawing from
experience - his own, or that reported by others - a storyteller makes it the
experience of those who are listening to his tale. When the rhythm of work
seizes the listener, he listens to the tales in such a way that the gift of
retelling them comes to him all by itself. The storyteller is never alone..."
Walter Benjamin
'The Storyteller'