Flamenco Fit! Fun Fitness with Facts and Flair!
The most FUN way for your students to get strong muscles, proud posture, and healthy hearts – with an MD’s FACTS about their bodies and a dance professor’s FLAIR for their spirits!
In-Person or Virtual/Online for Schools and Camps!
Age Range: PrK-12Request Pricing & Dates
Allow a professor of dance and exercise neurophysiology (Miss Coco) to jump-start your students out of their seats with the energy of movement — alongside her Filipino Friends who bring even more cultural flair! Together, they’ll spark excitement with fun, true facts about the body while showing how movement strengthens muscles and bones through fast Flamenco footwork and arching arm patterns.
Students will delight in their proud bullfighter posture and feel the rush as we build a cardio choreography that everyone can join. The secret spice? With Miss Coco and her Filipino Friends leading the way, students are so captivated by the novelty that they don’t see it as exercise or a stiff social dance — they experience it as epic fun!
Educators – A dancer who’s an MD??? BONUS POINTS!
Experience a true blend of award-winning expertise in health science AND in dance-arts!
- Chess team need better posture?
✅ Bullfighter moves - Basketball players need nimbler feet?
✅ Flamenco footwork - High school Juniors need a break from testing?
✅ Warrior shield arms - PE classes need units in dance and/or anatomy-physiology… that kids will actually love to do?
✅ This. Experience.
Is Flamenco dance real exercise?
Did you know that, according to the Mayo Clinic, the resting heart rate of professional dancers is similar to that of “elite athletes”? Because we are! Have you noticed that dancing is always in the top 5 or 6 exercises for increasing bone density? Because it’s weight bearing! And have you ever seen a Flamenco dancer’s calf muscles? Miss Coco’s soccer player friends have actually said they envy hers! Dance is real cardio and real strength training – and Flamenco gives these real workouts some really fun flair!
Your students will hold their heads higher, stand taller, and get stronger – and with their hearts pumping – during their 45 minutes with Miss Coco. She bursts onto your stage/MPR/classroom in fun Flamenco-wear, to curated traditional and fusion Flamenco music. Miss Coco, AKA Dr. Coco (to her health science graduates), gets everyone to join in, move, and get fit with flair as she inspires confidence in dance-based strength and cardio training – while also teaching correct, useful, and safe knowledge about young bodies in motion.* Let’s feel the beat of Flamenco – WHILE FEELING OUR HEARTS BEAT FASTER AND STRONGER!
*As an MD and a lifelong performer, Miss Coco is fully capable and completely happy to accommodate special populations within your school. Let’s discuss how she can serve your unique needs!
NOTE: As an artist-graduate of the respected Brehm Residency at Fuller Seminary, Coco can tailor her presentation to faith-based schools. Much of the core of Flamenco music comes from Jewish lament.
About Miss Coco:
Coco Cabrel, MD, brings 30 years of Flamenco, anatomy, and neurophysiology to your students – even longer for Philippine dance! She has taught at every level – from pre-school through grad school and beyond – as a professional Flamenco dancer/choreographer AND a teaching medical doctor and academic department chair. A lifelong professional performer, she’s an award-winning expert in blending student and teacher engagement with data-based pedagogy… with such grace and humor, no one realizes they just learned a ton of life lessons.
Coco, a graduate of Northwestern University’s prestigious Honors Program in Medical Education, has appeared as “The Flamenco-Fit MD” on nationally syndicated “The List TV” 6X, ABC10’s “Your California Life” twice, KTLA’s “LA Unscripted” twice, and Spectrum News1 LA. She’s been a speaker for conferences including Digital Hollywood and Go All In Fest, and she’s been interviewed for many podcasts and magazines. Her podcast interview for Northwestern Intersections was voted a Top 3 Podcast of 2020 by Northwestern University alumni around the world.
And check out the “Miss Coco Flamenco Show” featured segment on nationally syndicated “Spirit of Innovation: Arts Across America,” which includes interviews with educators like you on how they secured and used their state arts funding (originally aired May, 2024):
