cARTwheels II 2012

The cARTwheels program from the North Carolina Arts Council provides high quality staged performances to students across the state.  cARTwheel tours include: 

• A teacher workshop (two to six hours): to help teachers create entry ways for their students to the performance.

• Live performances: two 50-minute, high quality, age-appropriate performances that engage student's imaginations and take place in the quality settings where the art form was designed to be presented.  These performances will be presented at local (The Gallery Theatre), medium-sized (The Gallery Theatre seats 400) performance venues.

• Study guides: to introduce students to the performance.  Guides include activities and resources that make curricular connections and facilitate extensions in the classroom.

Flamenco Vivo Carlota Santana

The Gallery Theatre is proud to have been selected as the recipient of a cARTwheels II grant presenting Flamenco Vivo for Bertie County Schools and Hertford County Public Schools teachers and students. 

• Performed by Flamenco Vivo Carlota Santana:  The rhythms and emotions of flamenco come alive through whirling colorful ruffled dresses, waving fans, long fringed shawls (mantones), classic men's vests (chaleco), all set among an explosion of clicking castanets, the strumming of guitars and dancers keeping the beat with their special flamenco shoes and rhythmic hand clapping.  The rich and powerful art of traditional flamenco and its energetic dance reveals a vision of life full of pride, passion, honor and love.

Note:  This project was supported by the N. C. Arts Council, a division of the Department of Cultural Resources, with funding from the National Endowment for the Arts.  (Logos and images used by permission and are the property of their holder.)