First: How best to learn

I would highly recommend taking each course at least twice.

Once to get the broad strokes, then again to hear the details (trust me - it doesn’t all go in the first time!)

You can take each course as many times as you like: the first time you pay full price, the second time you pay only £10 for the whole course (excl private session), and following times it’s completely free!

Get personal Feedback

A full course will also include a 15mins of private session at a time arranged by you, which is the best way to make sure your learning is complete, get feedback and direct your learning journey, and weed out any bad habits as early as possible.

You can also get separate private sessions at any time to work on particular things, accelerate your learning, or catch up for missed classes.

Choosing a level

To join a course, you must demonstrate that you are comfortable with all the course content from the previous modules. If you have attended previous modules, I’ll know already - if you can’t do this, you can demonstrate your knowledge to me in person.

This is to make sure I don’t have to re-cover material other students already know, and to make sure you’ll get maximum benefit from what I’m teaching in this course.

If you only have a couple of gaps and don’t want to take the whole of the previous module, you can always take a private class to catch up.

Contact me to find out when the next course is starting!

Next: Course Content

tOTAL BEGINNERS

Footwork

• Basico

• Viradinha

• Lunge

• Simple Turn

• Lateral

• Soltinho

Techniques

• Etiquette, consent and comfort levels

• Beginnings of frame: leading/following with the body

• Having fun with Zouk!

BEGINNER 2

Foundation 1

Footwork

• Rau / Elastico

• Introducing the “head” movement

• Introducing the Cambre

• Body waves

• Walks / Slowdowns

Techniques

• Power: how to keep dancing comfortable for all

• “Head” movement technique

• Protecting the back and neck

• Safe execution of upper body movements

• Body feedback: interpret your partner’s responses

FoundatioN 2

Footwork

• Chicote

• Further Cambre technique

• Churn (Rotisserie)

• Simple tilted turn

Techniques

• Chicote: using the upper body sharply safely

• Safe, comfortable and elegant upper body movements

• Dance as a conversation

• Smooth dynamic linking (create a sequence)

We add in a few more advanced techniques, but mainly focus on improving our dance - making us better leaders, followers, and better able to express our creativity.

New Techniques/concepts

• Lead/follow switching

• Trio+ dances

• Travelling head movements

• Counterbalance

• Table

• Suicidio

(I’ll add more course content soon)