Classes

Explanation

Note: Zouk and Forró classes are currently not running.

Styles

Samba de Gafieira

Samba de Gafieira (also called Gafieira) is a partner dance to the Brazilian samba musical rhythms. Unlike various street and club forms of Brazilian samba, it evolved as a ballroom dance (dança de salão, literally, "salon dance").

Samba de Gafieira must be distinguished from the ballroom Samba, danced in International Latin and American Rhythm ballroom dance styles.

Gafieira is usually a pair dance, although in artistic performances it is not uncommon to add solo variations, including steps of Samba no Pé.

Forró

Forró is a genre of Brazilian music that originated in Northeastern Brazil. It encompasses various dance styles as well as a number of different musical beats. This music genre has gained widespread popularity in all regions of Brazil.

Forró is closely associated with Brazilian June Festivals, which celebrate a number of Christian saints.

This demo video shows two dancers from Brazil who are considered top dancers in one of the fastest styles of Forró (most styles of Forró are a lot slower than this).

Brazilian Zouk

Brazilian Zouk is a dance that developed from the Brazilian dance Lambada. The dance is now combined with a variety of music, including Caribbean Zouk music, which is how the dance came to be known as Zouk.

Traditional zouk style was first developed in Ilha Dos Pescadores in Rio de Janeiro around the mid 90's when Lambada songs stopped being composed. It was developed and first taught by Adilio Porto and Renata Peçanha in Brazil's dance school for Brazilian couple dances of Jaime Arôxa. The characteristic steps influencing that were created are the basic step going front and back (from Samba de Gafieira), the opening and lateral step (from Bolero), elastic and bonus (also called boomerang in Europe).

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