Forms of Spoken Word
"I've learned that people will forget what you said, people will forget what you did, but people will never forget how you made them feel."- Maya Angelou
Storytelling: the performance of written and oral stories ranging in any genre imaginable.
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Jokes: the performance of expressing humor to amuse and entertain an audience.
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Theater & Acting & Monologues: A performance style that is mostly associated with the performance of actors and actresses. This style involves similar aspects of storytelling, jokes, often music, and poetry infused into the encapsulating world of theater performance through monologues (a long speech by a performer as part of a theatrical work).
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Speeches & Letters: A performance style that is not typically considered "performance art", but the performing techniques of word manipulation and expression through creativity, originality, and freedom of expression offers insight to a speaker (or performers) audience engagement.
Music and Spoken Word: the performance technique of infusing music (lyrical or instrumental) and poetry. This style is the most common sense it offers the most flexibility in structure, volume, flow, and pace.
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Poems and Poetry: the performance of poems that focuses on the arrangement of words and poetry focuses on the use of words and language. Although both performance styles are interchangeable, they are indeed the same performance style with different emphases.
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