Self Image Builder for Girls: The Flamaze Girls Get Gutsy
Powerful Girls’ Self-Image Building: The TIME-TESTED way to protect and empower your tween-to-teen girls in the current cultural landscape – in a way that’s NOT CRINGE-Y for them!
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Age Range: PreK-12Request Pricing & Dates
Miss Coco created this show based on her observations while presenting to co-ed K-12 audiences across the US. She noticed a distinct shift in the girls’ behaviors between 4th and 5th grades, and it crossed all socio-economic demographics: When girls volunteered to be onstage, they self-consciously adjusted their outfits and awkwardly primped their hair while the boys danced freely. Girls hid their light while the boys shone brighter than ever.
Meanwhile, Miss Coco knew from her extensive experience with college-age and adult female students, that the study of Flamenco, combined with writing and then reading those words, consistently grew the confidence for them to overcome the deep insecurities and trauma that are unique to girls and women.
Enter The Flamaze-Girls: Two “opposite” girls who stomp, write, and speak their tween-to-teen confusion in young-lady clarity. Rise with your young ladies – give them the power of grace + strength.
Educators & Parents – Give your girls a SAFE HAVEN!
This is more than “girls’ empowerment” through dance or poetry. Miss Coco was a professor and is a girl-mom, so she knows how to provide:
- A safe space to express hard emotions
*Your girls/young ladies are given the physical and emotional space to describe the feelings these dances, spoken words, rhythms, and movements evoke inside themselves.
*And some are very hard to verbalize, so we embody them with Miss Coco’s time-tested and sensitive-yet-strong guidance – step by step, pen stroke by pen stroke, gesture by exquisite gesture.* - Yes, Hugs when anyone wants one
*Because love wins, joy wins… and sometimes that’s what a girl needs.
How Flamenco + Spoken Word are the perfect combo:
As a Flamenco professor & performer, Miss Coco has witnessed hundreds of girls and women transform their slumped shoulders to confident chests, their fumbly feet to sure steps. When she added written & spoken word – presented by her and practiced by the audience in Miss Coco’s signature safe space – students consistently unleashed their full power of feminine grace + strength. Acknowledgement, feeling seen, and being heard… that’s where standing your ground and grace-filled expression truly shine.
“This is the tale of 2 girls like you, 2 girls like me:
Preciosa and Danielle who used to be… Free. Used to be Gutsy!
But now unable to see the real vs the IG, like there’s some decree to be… Perfect. Like every. OTHER. Girl.”
“You feel like you have to hold it – in. Keep the belly & brain both – thin.
Keep a check on this new Evil Twin. You don’t know where to begin.
So let’s. Begin.”
~ Coco Cabrel, from the show
*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. The core of Flamenco music comes from Jewish lament, and there are many examples in the Old and New Testaments of strong women who were called upon to overcome tremendous obstacles in a male-dominated culture.
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):
