Brazilian Zouk Course Library
Move and be moved!
An Efficient Follow knows themselves. Their joys, limits, intentions, and habitual patterns of tension.They know how to say no, and how to say YES! They have the choice to be adaptable like water or solid like earth. They can escape like air or add fiery styling.They show up for themselves so they can show up for others.
Efficient Follow – Head Movement Level 1
$77 • 6 months access
Two hours of high-quality, bite-sized prerecorded drills and explanations for building safe, efficient head-movement technique. You’ll train intentions in the eight sides of head movement, weight distribution, alignment and safety; find balao through continuous circular movement and four directional options; explore displacement in space, balance and preparation; and develop advanced directional combinations, off-axis multidimensional turns and one-footed turns.
This solo-technique course prepares your body for safe movement and your mind to identify and execute movement within Brazilian Zouk patterns. Helpful for follows and leads. No Brazilian Zouk experience is required; an in-person class is recommended before applying the material with a partner.
Head Movement Patterns – Level 2
$30 • 6 months access
Already mastered the four sides of balao and ready for more? This course adds new combinations, stretch and strength exercises, and ways to test technique.
Across four recorded classes you’ll explore endings through three weight transfers and active vs. passive movement; intermediate ratio patterns including line, square, basic front and back, and cross body; dance combinations including frango asado, avião and mergulho; and frame training with extension, compression, resistance bands and advanced ratios.
Helpful for follows and leads. Level 1 is recommended for safety, but not required.
Remixing Head Movement – Level 3
$77 • 6 months access
It’s time to get fancy. This advanced course gives you tools to deconstruct complex head movements and remix timing and direction so traditional Brazilian Zouk patterns become more creative and expressive.
You’ll explore rotations, revolutions and orbits; remix side chicote with inversions, vortexes, mergulho and inclination; change the relationship between feet and head in soltinho, basic and cross-body patterns; and express energia through chicote, cambré, deep cambré, toalha and tornado-inspired movement while maintaining a healthy spine.
Includes two hours of highly edited, bite-sized classes. Prerequisite: Level 1 or a Reconstructing Head Movement Weekender.
