Uri is principal guitarist with Mi Flamenco. Apart from accompanying the dance courses, he gives workshops in his own right. Uri’s workshops are music-orientated. Workshop     content is dependent on the requirements of the school or educational establishment. They can take the form of specific guitar workshops for students already studying the guitar, or can be opened up to a whole host of music students, keen to widen their horizons and explore different sounds and rhythms. Depending on the direction the school wishes to take, the workshops are tailored in content to include: the background of flamenco, “palmas” (handclapping), rhythms, and flamenco guitar technique where appropriate (for guitar students only). Where suitable, workshops can lead to team-building, whereby students of different musical backgrounds and instrument skills learn to play a short flamenco piece together.

Students who don’t play an instrument are also very welcome to participate, learning flamenco “palmas” (hanclapping) and the exciting rhythms unique to flamenco. These workshops really stretch the students rhythmically, and give them an interesting opening to world music.

 

 

 

These workshops, or a combination of both, can be used to enrich the following curriculum areas: Music, Dance, P.E., Spanish, History, Theatre, Textiles (costumes)..etc. Alternatively, the whole experience can be packaged into an extra-curricular activity, or be included as part of a specific cultural event.