ZOUKCESS

Location:  Malmö Live

Caroline Haugsted see previous.

Felipe Meger has studied Brazilian ballroom dancing; zouk, kizomba, bachata, sertanejo, samba, forró, bolero, among other dances - and also solo dances like hiphop and contemporary. He has also had the opportunity to dedicate himself to body awareness techniques, technical movement, communication skills, body biomechanics and relationship through body language.

Location: Malmö Live

Caroline Haugsted has a bachelor in teaching dance from the University of the Arts in Amsterdam. She has many years of experience in dance, but her favorite dance is Brazilian Zouk. She dances and teaches Brazilian Zouk, Bachata, High Heels, Modern, Modern jazz, Jazz, Contemporary, Improvisation and Ballet, as well as Barre, Reformer Pilates and Yoga. She has been teaching and organizing Zouk in Copenhagen for seven years.

Locations: 

 Malmö Live and Studio Malmö

Val Clemente and Vanessa Bonilha from Rio de Janeiro are among the most popular and requested brazilian zouk couples in the world, known for their methodological teaching, inspiring musicality, amazing dancing and great personalities.

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Fernando has been dancing zouk for the past ten years. He learnt zouk from the international teacher Junior Carvalho and he is teaching and promoting the dance since 2010.

For Fernando zouk is "the healthiest drug" ever: "Magic happens when you are one with the partner and with the music". As a teacher he has a good feeling for the needs of his students and makes them enjoy the dance while learning.

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Dadinho from Sao Paulo is one of the most famous zouk dancers in the world, known for his special hip hop style into the traditional zouk that has influenced many dancers around the world. He is a widely appreciated pedagogue and artist.

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Freddy Marinho and Andressa Castelhano are world famous and always extremely appreciated teachers from Rio de Janeiro, currently living in Helsinki where they have built up a big brazilian zouk school with students that everyone love to dance with, some of them now travelling and competing and teaching themselves.

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Classes in brazilian zouk and Samba de gafieira were held at Malmö Live, and dance nights at Carib Kreol, with dj Francisco. A very enthusiastic group of dancers was created, with a wonderful atmosphere.

Fabricio Belgrano now lives in Gothenburg and continues to teach zouk through Carioca Zouk, but he is a frequent guest at events in Malmö, organised by Jeanette through Zoukcess.

Location:

Tryckeriet, Sofielund

When Lucrecia Noltorp and Jeanette Thuresson re-opened Zoukcess in the summer of 2016 the interest in discovering brazilian social dance turned out to be very big and we had to close registrations after only a few days. The classes later on continued as Fabricio Belgrano joined the company in the beginning of the autumn.

Locations: Jeanette's office at Möllevången, Tryckeriet, Malmö Danscenter, CubaCafé

Sanna Nilsson and Jeanette Thuresson introduced brazilian zouk in Malmö and started Zoukcess in 2009, on Sanna Nilsson's initiative.

Jeanette Thuresson had been to Brazil to train samba and afrobrasilian dances when she discovered zouk and Sanna Nilsson had been in Brazil training capoeira and found zouk and lambazouk, training for famous teachers such as Gilson Damasco and Leonardo Neves & Layssa Liebscher.

Dance nights were held at CubaCafé and classes at different locations starting at Kristianstadsgatan, where Jeanette was working in a studio. Some of the people that came continued to grow an interest in zouk and are still attending Zoukcess events and other zouk events all over the world.

Sanna Nilsson now lives in Australia, and Jeanette is the head of Zoukcess. But it would never have happened without Sanna - thank you from the bottom of my heart!