(noticia) Flamenco Stomps Its Way Into Schools as English-Language Teaching Tool

BY REBECCA TUCKER - Special to the Sun
July 13, 2005
A D V E R T I S E M E N T

Three schoolteachers, arms around each other's shoulders and heads nearly touching, scurried on tiptoe across a dance studio, moving their hips to the rhythm of a recorded flamenco guitar. One woman's particularly enthusiastic hip-swaying elicited an eruption of giggles from the circle of her all-female peers.

The novice dancers were among 12 participants in a workshop at Lincoln Center that trains teachers to use flamenco dance to help students for whom English is not the native language communicate. Between last Wednesday and this Friday, the Lincoln Center Institute is offering dozens of such workshops in dance, music, theater, and visual arts to teachers who want to add flavor to their curricula.

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