Zouk
Zouk is a partner dance that has evolved into two forms Lambazouk and Brazilian Zouk. It is a sensual dance with a close connection embraced, wild spins, long steps, body isolations, and upper-body movements. Zoukinies are ever-evolving the dance form, at night clubs, dance schools, and events. Zouk music ranges from kizomba and semba music, latin and oriental music, reggaeton hip-hop, R'n'B, dubstep, and some pop.
Series Classes
Series classes are weekly classes for 1 month. You will learn the dance skills necessary for social dancing. The progression of our dance series classes elevates dancers' skill and knowledge of each dance form while focusing on social dancing.
Virtual Zouk 1
Requirements: None! Designed for total Beginner Dancers
Program: We are so excited to bring back our Series classes designed for you and your partner in the comforts of your home! Join us to learn Brazilian Zouk from the ground up. This free-flowing, graceful, fun, and creative dance form that is growing in popularity across the world. This foundational course will help you grasp basic zouk flow and technique.
Zouk 2
Requirements: Zouk 1 or Equivalent
Program: Intermediate level Zouk dancers. This class is for the dancer who wants to elevate their understanding of Zouk. Dancers who are looking to dive deeper into the world of Zouk with technique and patterns that will challenge anyone at the intermediate level.
Zouk 3
Requirements: 2x Zouk 2 series or 3 Month Zouk Beginner Team or Equivalent
Program: Intermediate level Zouk dancers. This class is for the dancer who wants to elevate their understanding of Zouk. Dancers who are looking to dive deeper into the world of Zouk with technique and patterns that will challenge anyone at the intermediate level.
Lamba Zouk
Requirements: None
Program: Discover this energetic and joyful dance from Brazil, and the roots of Brazilian Zouk. In this class we will train leads and follows to be confident in the rhythm, basic steps, and basic turns of Lambada, creating a strong foundation on which to play and express your musicality.
Drop-ins
Want to try Zouk dancing for the first time! Come to one of our Drop-in classes every Friday. We offer a Back-to-Basics class open to all levels on Friday. It rotates between Zouk and Lambazouk. Please check the schedule for the most current schedule. Experience dancing at SCT for only $10, you can pay at the door or sign up online.
Social
Come be a Zoukinie at SCT's Friday Night Socials! On Friday Nights, dancers have access to 4 separate rooms for Salsa Bachata, Zouk, and Kizomba, all with live DJs.
Zoukinis start the week dancing at our Monday night Socials. Exclusively Zouk in the studio with a local DJ. You can pay at the door or sign up online.
Practica
SCT opens its doors on Sunday from 7:00-9:00 PM. Come practice your skills with SCT Zouk team members, $5 for the public and included in team membership. Please pay at the door.
Boot Camps
Boot camps are designed for a comprehensive 2-day class experience, where the student learns all material taught in our series classes over 1 weekend. The progression of boot camp classes elevates a dancer's skill and knowledge of each dance form while focusing on social dancing.
Zouk 1
Requirements: None
Program: This boot camp will help you jump in with basic foundational zouk flow and technique. This is a great opportunity for anyone new to zouk or partner dancing to feel quickly confident on the dance floor and to become a part of Seattle's vibrant and welcoming zouk community. We also welcome existing Zoukinies to immerse themselves in learning their opposite lead/follow role.
Zouk 2
Requirements: Zouk 1 or Equivalent
Program: Intermediate level Zouk dancers. This class is for the dancer who wants to elevate their understanding of Zouk. Dancers who are looking to dive deeper into the world of Zouk with technique and patterns that will challenge anyone at the intermediate level.
Zouk Teams
Beginner Zouk Team
This team is designed to help dancers understand how to connect to their partners, be musical in their dances, and learn how to lead and follow in an awesome yet technical way. This will prep dancers for one of the more advanced training teams the following year. With a focus on timing, technique, and connection for beginning/intermediate Zouk-ers. We will build a strong foundation of the Brazilian zouk technique that will let you move on to more advanced moves in a safe, body-and-partner-aware way. We work on the quality of movement and body awareness, which you can use in many dance forms.
Intermediate Zouk Team
This team is designed to help students master their foundations to a technical intermediate level that translates to greater variety, technical understanding, and creativity in their dancing. We want to empower students to feel great on the dance floor, improve technique, musicality, and presentation. Students will expand their intermediate vocabulary by building on fundamentals and competency of technically sound movement. Learning how to link foundational movements that harness the natural flow and expansiveness of traditional Rio zouk. Continue to promote the joy and expression of traditional Rio zouk through appreciation of the culture and origins of the dance. Build comprehension and skills of natural and safe body movement. Develop comprehension of self as a dancer and co-creation within the dance; highlighting elements of connection to self and to others in partnership.
Advanced Zouk Team
Advanced zouk team is for students who have already developed strong foundations in zouk and are skilled in intermediate level material. The curriculum will focus on training solo movement to build body awareness, control, and quality of movement. Students will study progressively more difficult variations and combinations of movements, both stationary and traveling. We will develop skills in different styles of zouk and explore musicality across different styles and genres. Students can look forward to the continued training of balance, counterbalance, head movement, spins, and off-axis movement, as well as, training higher-level techniques of connection, flow, and partnership dynamics. We want to empower students to be creative in their movement and dance identity by understanding the "why" in their dance.