UPCOMING CLASSES

w/ Taylor Kinney
Dive into the vibrant energy and mesmerizing flow that makes dancers fall in love with Brazilian Zouk! We'll build your understanding of the connection techniques, body mechanics, and fundamental movements that make a dance feel truly "zouk-y", drawing direct connections to other dances and the FDA curriculum so you can leverage your existing toolkit with a new B.Zouk flair. We'll also explore fun moves unique to B.Zouk and ways to integrate them into your social dancing. By the end of the month, you'll have the skills to connect and create with B.Zouk dancers on the social floor, add new dynamics to your dancing, and feel ready to adventure into the wider world of B.Zouk!

w/ Sia & Mark
Expand your Smoothstepping vocabulary and the musical range you can dance to, from fast and precise to slow and gooey. Learn new moves borrowed from root dances like leg displacements from tango and drags from ballroomin’ blues, and distill your precision by abstracting core elements like rolling replacement steps and stepping outside a partner.

w/ Mark & Sia
Familiarize yourself with stretch and compression partnership skills in an open position as you learn slotted essentials like pushes, passbys, and more. Explore how to generate, sustain, and release linear momentum to ride the music’s rhythmic flow and speed changes. With a focus on dynamic dancing, this class offers a structured and reliable framework for learning partner dance.

w/ Kira & Selina
Step into the world of fusion dance with confidence! Get familiar with lead and follow communication skills to dance in partnership and express yourself to a wide variety of music. Learn the Academy's basic step with variations, simple turns, and foundational techniques that empower you to join any fusion social dance community.

w/ Taylor Kinney
Brazilian Zouk is known for its uniquely fluid movement and expression, and this month we get an opportunity to bring those dynamics into your dancing! Class will be structured around drills that build Brazilian Zouk movements into your muscle memory while also expanding your body awareness and control in ways that elevate all of your dancing. Expect to unlock fluid hip motion, freedom in body rolls and isolations, and deeper control through rotations and spins! The second half of the month builds on these foundations, opening new possibilities for expression and musicality that add personal voice into any partner dance while honoring the “structure” created by our partner.