Flamenco
Workshops for Schools and Colleges
London
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Flamenco
express workshops can form an integrated part of dance, music, language
or other cultural studies within the national curriculum. The workshops
use a variety of dance, live music, imagery and rhythm games to explore
flamenco art, culture and history in a way which is exiting, useful and
good fun.
We have worked with groups
from primary and secondary education, performing arts groups in further
and higher education, and special needs groups through our work with Nine
Acres Special School, in Plumstead, London and Harlow College Community
Arts Group, Harlow, Essex.
Flamenco
in the National curriculum
There are many ways in which flamenco workshops can be related to
the national curriculum. Some of the main areas are as follows.....
Physical Education - Dance
activities
Key stage 1
Pupils should be taught to.....
a. use movement imaginatively
responding to stimuli , including music, and performing basic skills.
b. change the rhythm, speed, level and direction of their movements.
c. create and perform dances using simple movement patterns including
those from different times and cultures.
d. express and communicate ideas and feelings.
Key stage 2
Pupils should be taught to.....
a. create and perform dances
using a range of movement patterns including those from different times,
places, and cultures.
b. respond to a range of different stimuli and accompaniment.
Key Stage 3
Pupils should be taught to.....
a. create and perform dances
using a range of complex movement patterns and techniques.
b. use a range of dance styles and forms.
c. use compositional principles when composing dances.
d. apply performance skills in dances.
Key Stage 4
Pupils should be taught to.....
a. choreograph and perform
complex dances using advanced techniques and skills with accuracy and
expression.
b. reflect different social and cultural contexts in their dances, and
communicate artistic intention.
c. use presentations skills in their dances.
Music
Key Stage 1
Pupils should be taught to explore and experience......
a. their ideas and feelings
about music, using movement , dance and expressive musical language.
b. how the combined elements of pitch, duration dynamics, tempo, timbre,
texture and silence can be organised and used expressively within simple
structures.
c. how sounds can be made in different ways i.e. clapping and stamping.
d. how music is used for different purposes i.e. for dance or as a lullaby
e. a range of live and recorded music from different times and cultures
Key Stage 2
Pupils should be taught....
a. to improvise, developing
rhythmic and melodic material when performing
b. to analyse and compare sounds
c. to explore and explain their own ideas about music using movement dance,
expressive language and musical vocabulary.
d. how time and place can influence the way music is created, performed
and heard.
e. a range of musical activities that integrate performing , composing
and appraising.
f. to respond to a range of musical and non-musical starting points
g. a range of live and recorded music from different times and cultures
Key Stage 3
Pupils should be taught....
a. to study the basic elements
of music with an emphasis on rhythmic construction.
b. to compose and perform in musical styles from different cultures.
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