Angela Bartley

Learn to Salsa and Merengue while exploring the exciting history and culture of Latin America and the Caribbean. OLE!

Angela Bartley has spent her adult life extensively traveling 6 continents gaining first-hand experience with world cultures. She is formally trained in Latin dance, international music, social dance and she will complete a Master's of International Studies Degree next year.

Angela Bartley is a dancer, actress, singer and trumpeter. She earned a full music scholarship to the University of Louisville, and gained local notoriety playing "The Call to the Post" for Churchill Downs and the Kentucky Derby Museum. She teaches dance and trumpet. Additionally, Angela has the top selling, independently produced CD in the state, the "Sounds Kentucky" and recently completed her second CD, "Goodnite Kisses: Lullabies from around the World."

Angela acts in national TV commercials and is Chautauqua living history presenter for the Kentucky Humanities Council performing 45-minute monologues of "Rosie the Riveter" http://www.kyhumanities.org/characters838.cfm and a young, "Mary Todd Lincoln."

Angela teaches students of all ages and levels of physical, mental and emotional ability to discover their own inner joy and love of life through the beauty and richness of music and dance. She also assists educators in the Kentucky school systems to meet their core content academic expectations by integrating multi-cultural dance into social studies, history, art, math and language arts.

Dances of the Caribbean and Latin America

Appropriate for grades 4 - 8. (Can be adapted to fit other grades, also.)

Program can be custom fit for 1- 4 week residencies.

Goals:

1. Allow students to experience the elements of dance and music through movement exercises, dances, singing, instruments, observation and discussion.
    
2. Integrate the study of World history and Geography with the study of dances and music of the world, providing hands-on experience of International times and culture as reflected in dance. Explore the role of dance in family and individual status in those countries.
    
3. Integrate the study of Diversity and World history with the study of dance, music and culture, learning dances from various nations, thus exposing students to a culture other than their own.
    
4. Allow students to compare and contrast dance styles of various countries, exploring the purposes of the music & dances, using appropriate terminology.
    
5. Assign students to small groups to choose music and choreograph original dances using the elements of dance, and the communication of ideas, thoughts or feelings.

Assistance available for all interested teachers, focusing on integrating multi-cultural dance into the curriculum. Suggested resource materials and a bibliography will be provided.

This residency will provide an in-depth boost to the school's existing Arts and Humanities Education Plan. Specifically, students will have an opportunity to meet Kentucky Core Content Academic Expectations in music and dance by:

1. Creating a dance that uses elements of dance with locomotor and non-locomotor movements (1.15, 2.22) (2.1.12)
    
2. Creating a dance with a beginning, middle and end that communicates ideas, thoughts and feelings. (1.15, 2.23) (2.1.31)
    
3. Performing this dance with a small group (1.15,2.22,2.23) (2.2.21)
    
4. Performing traditional folk and ethnic dances (1.15,2.22,2.23) (2.2.13)
    
5. Teach creating and performing dance so that students will have a better understanding of how to respond to dance in writing. (1.15, 2.25,2.26)
    
6. Being able to explain how dance has been a part of cultures and time periods throughout history (1.15,2.23,2.25) (2.2.31)
    
7. Being able to discuss purposes of dance. (1.15,2.23,2.25) (2.2.31)
    
8. Using appropriate terminology to describe differences and commonalities in dances of International cultures, their purposes and styles (1.15,2.23,2.25) (2.1.31)

The program will provide learning opportunities through a variety of modalities to reach students of different learning styles-kinesthetic, verbal, visual, aural, etc.

Curriculum Connections:

Music, drama, mathematics, art, practical living, language arts, anatomy, physics and Social Studies.

Example of a Single Class:

• Give brief history of each country, culture, geography, history and representative dances (example: show Cuba on a map explaining the geography, culture and history).
     
• Show costumes for Cuba.
   
• Play Salsa music and demonstrate Salsa.
   
• Students and teacher participate in Salsa dance (possibly students create combinations using steps).
   
• Repeat steps for each country represented for the Caribbean and Latin America, time permitting

Country	Dances
Caribbean	Calypso
Cuba	Salsa, Bolero, Cha-Cha Rumba, Conga
Brazil	Samba, Bossa Nova
Argentina	Tango
Afro-Cuban / Puerto Rican	Merengue, Rumba
Mexico	Mexican Hat Dance
Puerto Rico	Bomba