Miss Coco Flamenco: Flamazing Dance = SEL!

Get Flamazing SEL with the confident creativity that triumphs over troubles – especially bullying. Learn HOW – through high-energy, fun Flamenco dance, music, and history with the one and only Miss Coco Flamenco!

In-Person or Virtual/Online for Schools and Camps!

Age Range: PreK-12

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Let’s Be Flamazing! And learn how the immigrant Flamenco creators TRIUMPHED over their troubles – especially bullying by the native peoples up North – while hiding in caves in southern Spain 500 years ago.

How? By creating music and dance to face their feelings – and their bullies – together. Miss Coco Flamenco’s fabulously fun flair for secretly solid SEL will have your students moving, laughing, and leaping to join her up onstage… while they feel, think, and change!

Secretly sharing SEL Strategies in such fun ways:
  • Self-Awareness – how to “call” to each other and ask for help the Flamenco way AKA “The Llamada”
  • Self-Management – how to “stomp out” anger or sadness, and get “fast feet” into giggles AKA “Taconeo”
  • Responsible Decision-Making – how to share “flowery” creativity and “spin into” joy AKA “Floreo y Vueltas”
  • Relationship Skills – how to make “cooperative clapping” music AKA “Palmas”
  • And Social Awareness – how to stand together with “bullfighter confidence” and “jump in triumph” AKA “Postura y Jota”
Ooh, additional benefits? Yes, please!
  • Physical health – Cardio, muscle strength and coordination, bone strength, joint flexibility, better posture and breathing
  • Mental/emotional healthWell-documented uplift in mood and improved intellectual performance from the neurophysiological (brain-body) communications during physical movement
  • Math skills – While building choreography, we count our footwork and clapping… that’s real math underneath the art!
  • Human geography – The origins of Flamenco are a great way to find Spain, learn some Spanish words, and discover how an oppressed people embraced their hardships while hiding from their bullies… by creating a whole new artform to rise triumphant!

As a person of faith, Miss Coco has prior experience and can speak to faith-based schools as requested.

Professional Development… That doesn’t FEEL like PD (because I’ve been there!)

As a 30-year educator and 5-year administrator who’s sat through more eye-rolling PD than I’d like to admit, I want to deliver the most unique and refreshing PD session you’ve ever experienced!

I’ll tailor a blend of Flamenco dance, music, fitness, and culture with my signature light-hearted AND heart-tugging storytelling – to fit what YOU want to get out of it. Whether you want a 30-minute after-school pick-me-up, a half-day training in “Secretly  Awesome SEL” for your classrooms, a full-day or multi-day workshop with breakouts that lift your souls as much as your curricula, or if you simply want to be entertained with an all-out show… I’ve got your back. With great Flamenco posture, to boot!

Go ahead, “protest” the same-old-same-old PD with the original “protest music” and dance – Flamenco, created by an oppressed people… and still breaking new ground today.

About

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 joyfully stand taller and stomp, clap, and laugh a lot louder – and with more finesse – during their 45 minutes with Miss Coco. She bursts onto your stage/ MPR/ classroom in full, authentic flamenco attire, to a curated blend of recorded traditional and fusion Flamenco music. Miss Coco gets everyone to join in and move, as she safely teaches exactly how the original, ancient Flamencos created this unique dance form specifically to triumph over their troubles – 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.”

Interesting Facts About Flamenco:

When the Roma people, who were originally from India, assimilated into the existing complex cultural fabric of Andalusian civilization in Southern Spain and were persecuted as intruders, Flamenco began to emerge during the fourteenth century. The raw vocals and inventive fusion of Indian, Hebraic, Middle Eastern, and North African rhythms made the singer the center of attention and the rock of Flamenco music. One could consider flamenco to be the original “protest music”! Guitarists, percussionists, cellists, pianists, and, of course, dancers still give way to the occasionally eerie, always upbeat vocals that distinguish this music and define this culture’s history. Nuevo Flamenco, or “New Flamenco,” continually breaks new ground in the contemporary music scene by incorporating contemporary influences like jazz and rock.


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