AAPI: Filipino Friends
The most unique AAPI experience for your students ever! Learn the hidden history of how two clashing cultures blended — through their dances. Taught by an award-winning dance professor who has real Filipina-Spanish heritage, Miss Coco Flamenco!
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Age Range: PreK-12Request Pricing & Dates
If you’ve always dreamed of giving your students true value during AAPI Month, but you’ve only found a Disney movie, here’s your dream-come-true! Allow a Filipina-Spanish-American professor and life-long professional dancer, Miss Coco Flamenco, to get your kids dancing and giggling while learning a truly valuable lesson from a hidden part of history:
Sharing dance = Sharing hearts.
K-12 students leap from their seats to share Miss Coco Flamenco’s stage – they learn the exact dance steps that were shared long ago, during the 333 years when Spain colonized the Philippine islands. When Miss Coco Flamenco was in grade school, she danced professionally in a Philippine dance company; she began dancing Flamenco and classical Spanish dance professionally as an adult. Her electrifying teaching style and curriculum-building experience position her uniquely to teach this topic; students gain deep insight into how dance was the heartfelt key to creating productive bonds between two clashing cultures… bonds that continue to be strong and fruitful today.
Your students will DANCE in ways they may never have seen before! Get ready for the laughter, sharing, and pure joy that will overflow from their hearts into your classrooms and beyond!
BTW, Asian American and Pacific Islander Heritage Month is May — book now because Miss Coco Flamenco’s Spring calendar is already filling!”
About Miss Coco
Coco Cabrel, MD, brings 30 years of Flamenco, anatomy, neurophysiology, and leadership experience to your students where she’s 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 is an award-winning expert in blending student – and teacher – engagement with evidence-based pedagogy… with such grace and humor, no one realizes they just learned a ton of life lessons.
Your students will giggle, move, and overflow with joy during their 45 minutes with Miss Coco. She bursts onto your stage/ MPR/ classroom in full, authentic flamenco, classical Spanish, and traditional Filipino attire, as she dances to specially curated, recorded music that defines this journey into a hidden past. Miss Coco gets everyone to join in, as she safely teaches the exact dance steps that were joyfully shared between two clashing cultures – steps that were handed down to her directly – so you and your students can, too!
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” six times, ABC10’s “Your California Life” twice, KTLA’s “LA Unscripted” twice, Spectrum News1 LA, and “Spirit of Innovation: Arts Across America.” She’s been a speaker and wellness panelist for conferences including Digital Hollywood and Go All In Fest, and she’s been interviewed on many podcasts as well as in Authority Magazine and Thrive Global Magazine. Her podcast interview for Northwestern Intersections was voted one of the Top 3 Podcasts of 2020 by Northwestern University alumni around the world.
