HeyJaredZoukNerds: A New Experience in Learning for Dancers 🧠
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Great Technique Won't Get You More Dances (opens the original)
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I danced with someone I'd followed online for years, walked off the floor, and went to a dark corner to question every decision I'd ever made in my life. They're one of the best Brazilian Zouk dancers in the world, the dance was terrible, and like most of us do, I blamed myself. If you've ever come off a dance with somebody you admire and quietly decided the problem was you, this one's for you. Gui's version is a follower in his D.C. scene who tries to sit down and can't, because the leaders kee
Stop Blaming Your Dance Students! (opens the original)
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"I don't know what to do. My students don't wanna learn the foundations. Please help me." An organizer said that to me years ago, and it is the most common thing I hear in Brazilian Zouk. This one is for teachers and organizers who have said out loud that their students do not want the basics. That night I went to the social. Acrobatics everywhere, every head movement, not one Viradinha. Then he started dancing, because he was the local teacher, leading crazy moves to people who could barely do
Lambada vs Brazilian Zouk: Is It One Dance? (opens the original)
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Lambada is like the sun, you know? It spreads the brightness and the energy to everyone around. And I'm sorry to say this, but sometimes, in some places, Brazilian Zouk can be like a black hole. Vanessa didn't even let me finish. "You just get in." Yeah. You get in, you get sucked in, and everything else disappears. It's my dance, and I say it with love. If you've danced Brazilian Zouk for years and still tell people you don't dance Lambada, this one is for you. I sat down with Vanessa Meirelles
From Ballet and Math Class to Lambada Masters with Iago & Vanessa (opens the original)
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"I don't believe this person, they can really follow what this guy wants. I think they are guessing." That's Vanessa on why she started Brazilian Zouk, after fifteen years of ballet, jazz and contemporary. If you have a job you like and a dance you love, and you keep running the numbers at two in the morning, this one is for you. Iago was teaching mathematics in Campinas when Nina told him, "If you wanna be with me, you gotta dance." The pandemic shut his school, and when it reopened he said, "W
Yes, Dance Teachers Plateau Too! (opens the original)
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"Hell yes, hell yes." That's my answer every time someone in the group asks whether teachers hit plateaus too, and I teach Brazilian Zouk for a living. Ours just hides better. I can teach all week, feel completely fulfilled, and then meet Christina after three months apart and find that the things we could do together suddenly need thinking about again. Gui said it cleaner than I did. He'd been dancing mostly with his beginner students, having the time of his life, and then he went to do somethi
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