Format
1. Short lecture on Spain's history and culture
2. Explanation of the Flamenco guitar
3. Work with students on rhythm with them clapping (palmas) and breaking into groups to work on counter point rhythm.
4. Begin some basic movement with students
5. Learn a traditional Spanish song from the flamenco tradition
6. Perform the song with the dance
7. Create their own song to express a social or cultural theme in their lives in groups.
Objectives
1. Learn the background and history of Flamenco through demonstration.
2. Learn complex rhythms that will be built upon with song and dance.
4. Perform as musicians - keeping the rhythm with hand clapping, performing the dance taught
5. Perform their song in the Flamenco tradition that expresses their culture.
Standards Alignment
National Standards
National Standards in Dance:
Content Standard: 1: Identifying and demonstrating movement elements and skills in performing dance
- Students accurately identify and demonstrate basic dance steps, positions, and patterns for dance from two different styles or traditions (e.g., ballet, square, Ghanasian, Middle Eastern, modern)
- Students demonstrate accurate memorization and reproduction of movement sequences
Content Standard: 2: Understanding choreographic principles, processes, and structures
- Students successfully demonstrate the structures or forms of AB, ABA, canon, call and response, and narrative
Content Standard: 5: Demonstrating and understanding dance in various cultures and historical periods
- Students competently perform folk and/or classical dances from various cultures; describe similarities and differences in steps and movement styles
State Standards
Artistic Literacy Standards: Dance
• Demonstrate knowledge of the foundations of the arts area: 4.1.1.1.3, 6.1.1.1.3, 9.1.1.3
• Demonstrate understanding of the personal, social, cultural and historical contexts that influence the arts areas: All in dance, but not pertaining to American Indians.
• Create or make in a variety of contexts in the arts area using the artistic foundations: 0.2.1.1.1, 0.2.1.1.2, 4.2.1.1.1, 4.2.1.1.2, 6.2.1.1.1, 6.2.1.1.2
• Perform or present in a variety of contexts in the arts area using the artistic foundations: 0.3.1.1.1, 0.3.1.1.2, 6.3.1.1.1, 9.3.1.1.1
• Respond to and critique a variety of creations or performances using the artistic foundations: 0.4.1.1.1, 4.4.1.1.1
Artistic Literacy Standards: Music
• Demonstrate knowledge of the foundations of the arts area: 0.1.1.3.1, 4.1.2.3.2, 6.1.1.3.3, 9.1.1.3.3,
• Demonstrate knowledge and use of the technical skills of the art form: 0.1.2.3.2, 4.1.2.3.2,
• Demonstrate understanding of the personal, social, cultural and historical contexts that influence the arts areas: All in Music, but not pertaining to American Indians.
• Create or make in a variety of contexts in the arts area using the artistic foundations: 0.2.1.3.1, 0.2.1.3.2, 4.2.1.3.1, 6.2.1.3.1, 6.2.1.3.2, 6.2.1.3.3, 9.2.1.3.1, 9.2.1.3.3,
• Perform or present in a variety of contexts in the arts area using the artistic foundations: 4.3.1.3.1, 9.3.1.3.1, 9.3.1.3.3,
• Respond to and critique a variety of creations or performances using the artistic foundations:
History and Social Studies Standards: In World History Strand
• K-3: The student will demonstrate knowledge of the historical development of past cultures around the world
• 4-8: 1500-1770: the student will examine changing forms of cross-cultural contact, conflict and cooperation that resulted from interconnections between Eurasia, Africa and the Americas.
• 9-12: The student will demonstrate knowledge of the interactions between Christendom and the Islamic World, 750-1500 AD
• 9-12: The student will demonstrate a knowledge of overseas trade, exploration and expansion in the Mediterranean, Indian and Atlantic Oceans, 100-1500 AD.