Amalia hernandez biography graphic organizer

  • A guided reading or interactive read aloud lesson plan for the biography mentor text book Danza!
  • Amalia Hernández Navarro (September 19, – November 4, ) was a Mexican ballet choreographer and founder of the Ballet Folklórico de México.
  • This picture book biography provides detailed information about the upbringing of Amalia Hernandez and her ties to the Ballet Folklorico dance.

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    Danza!: Amalia Hernández and El Ballet Folklórico de México

    March 18,
    I was looking forward to Danza!: Amalia Hernández and El Ballet Folklórico de México given all the buzz about it and my own personal love of dance. I have even seen the Ballet Folklorico perform in person (they were wonderful, of course!) However, I was underwhelmed by the book. I felt it lacked pizazz. It didn't really give me a feel for Amalia's personality. I also wondered about her family background and how she was able to get the famous dancers as instructors at such a young age. I'm sorry to say that the illustrations frustrated me. I appreciate that they meant to convey a sense of culture but for me, personally, they were so stylized that it was hard to see dance form or technique very clearly. I would also have liked to see more detail in some of the illustrations--for example, the text mentions that Amalia ensured there were "spectacular backdrops" yet all we see is some rather dull greeny-brown backgrou

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    Introduction

    Dance not only represents a hegemonic identity or transmits a structuring disciplinary order, but also expresses a kind of corporaldiscursiveness of excess that almost always says more than it should or would like to.
    (Vallejos, , p. 12).

    1In recent years, there has been a growing interest in the history of dance in several Latin American countries, both within the artistic field and in other areas of the social sciences and humanities. Though the history of the form has generally been written by dancers and choreographers, today, other disciplinary perspectives have taken on the task, questioning the traditional ways of writing the history in aspects such as its function, the linearity of the stories told, the sources it draws on, the legitimacy of the discourse, and more.1

    2This article focuses on part of the historiography of stage dance in Mexico that developed during the 20th century and, in particular, it analyzes some of the accounts2 contained in t

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