There are several of other forms to express the oral storytelling, the common ones are the poem storytelling and the fairy tales, and I’ll mainly focus on fairy tales. The fairy stories are stories based on the magical, unrealistic and supernatural components. However, by asking for “experience or participation,” I would interpret it as being part of a play or performance, so the answer would be yes. I used to do ballet and have performed in some plays, which were The Nutcracker and a fantastical one that was created by my ballet school. In my performance, there was barely oral participation, but this made me realize that the movements, expressions and music, was already expressing by itself. The way I felt when I used to participate in those performances was like stepping into another world for the reason that I used to see the settings of the performance, I used to see the costumes that advanced ballerinas were wearing, and it felt like a fantasy. Five out of seven days per week, four hours after school that I was attending to the rehearsals, and with a preparation of six months. This means that I spent most of my time there, living in an imaginary world. Lastly, the most exciting part was the last few weeks of the rehearsals before the actual performance because that’s where we started to go to the theater and wearing our costumes as well.
