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“This site is dedicated to all the amazing and talented zouk instructors and zouk artists who have given so much to the zouk community over the years and continue to inspire us each and every day.”
- Nicholas Bambo,
Founder and Creative Director of Zouk Nation
In a few weeks the “Buenos Aires Zouk Lambada Congress 2011,” the first Zouk Congress to be held in Buenos Aires, Argentina, is scheduled to take place. In honor of the occasion, Zouk Nation has selected Romina Hidalgo to be the site’s newest Featured Instructor. Join me as I talk to her about her career in dance and and what staging a congress in Buenos Aires means to the local community.
Click here to read the full interview.
Zouk Nation and Street Smart Entertainment would like to thank all the dancers who participated in the “Don’t Keep Me Waitin’” Video Contest. All the hard work and creativity that was put into each submission was truly inspiring. And now without further ado here are the winners of the contest.
Taking first place are Alisson Rodriguez Sandi and Audrey Isautier from Perth, Australia! After careful consideration it was decided that their video, with the beautiful production quality by producer Ross Metcalf, best embodied the spirit of the song. http://bit.ly/qPkUNx
Nilton Ramalho, the newly crowned Kizomba Artist of the Year, will be performing new songs from his album and some golden classics at SOB’s down in the Soho area. I’ve been informed that tickets for this event are selling fast, so order yours before their all gone. If you don’t know who Nilton is, you might want to check out the interview I did with him last year when he was the featured artist on Zouk Nation, http://bit.ly/kITxVP
Date: Friday, July 8th, 2011
Location: SOB’s, 204 Varick Street (at the corner of West Houston)
Time: Doors open at 11pm
Price: $20 in advance, $22 at the door Buy Tickets
Website: www.sobs.com
Schedule Change! Wednesday, August 3rd, Zouk Nation and Fire on the Water present the 4th Brazilian Zouk Boat Cruise
Join us for a very special evening dancing to the latest Zouk sounds as we cruise up and down the Hudson River under the stars. This year’s event features special guest instructor Mari Hodges and our very own DJ Piyo.
Price of admission includes a free Brazilian Zouk lesson taught by Mari Hodges.
Admission:
$10 in advance
$15 at the door
Tickets may be purchased in advance online through the Zouk Nation website, http://bit.ly/bUtI4f
“Dance is the poetry of the foot.”
– John Dryden
Claudio Gomes was among the first supporters of Zouk Nation when it first started out a few years ago. So when it came time to decide who would be the first Featured Instructor on the site, he seemed like a natural choice. The following is an interview I did with Claudio a while back, one in which he talks about life growing up in Brazil, the early days, when he first came to Holland, and some of the challenges he faced when trying to establish a Brazilian dance scene there.
Click here to read the full interview.
For 3 consecutive summers Zouk Nation has hosted Zouk in Central Park at Bethesda Terrace, but all that is about to change.
On May 23, the Department of Parks and Recreation officially changed the status of Bethesda Terrace into a “quiet zone.” As such, the Park authorities will no longer allow the playing of audio equipment or musical instruments in the area.
This announcement has been met with some controversy as local musicians who frequent that area of the Park view the ban as an infringement on their right to freedom speech as laid down in the first amendment and has been written up in many of the local newspapers including the New York Times, which featured an article on June 5th about the growing debate.
A couple weeks ago an email arrived at the offices of Zouk Nation containing some stunning photos of a wedding in which zouk dancing was featured as part of the festivities. We made some inquiries as to the origin of the photos and the story behind them is as follows.
On May 7th around 2:00 in the afternoon at the Old Marylebone Townhall in London, Andrew Finch married Yiye Zhang in a ceremony that was attended by a small gathering of family and friends. After the ceremony the celebration was continued in Regents Park where the guests had a chance to mingle and take photos of the newlyweds. At 4:00 a canal boat transported the entire gathering to the London Canal Museum, where the couple had reserved the 1st floor for the reception and dinner.
“When you dance, you don’t sweat: you glow.”
– Didi