HOSTED BY: Zouk Connect NYC and ZenZouk NYC
We are very grateful that New York City has been a great home for Zouk events in the United States!! This gives us great reason to celebrate! We are so ecstatic about this upcoming 3 day weekender in November, we are barely holding it together. For the first time in NYC Renato Veronezi, Lui, and Lari from Brazil will be here in the United States. NYC Friendsgiving weekender will be held in places around New York City! Let's give them an amazing welcome! We are ready to have this first time weekend celebrating years of thanks and some lifetime friendships. We'll have some thank you's along the way for seeing this community for what it is today. A lot of great contributions behind scenes and in front lines : )
More About these fantastic artists coming soon.......Eat the Turkey - Ditch the Pounds and come Zouk!
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ARTISTS
- Lui and Larissa | Brazil
- Renato Veronezi | Poland | Brazil
- Jessica Lamdon | New York City
- DJ Viscious | New York City
- DJ Wasabhi | Montreal
- DJ Chuky | Washington DC
- DJ Power | New York City
SCHEDULE
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ABOUT THE INTERNATIONAL INSTRUCTORS
Luí and Larissa are two emerging international teachers of Brazilian zouk from São Paulo. With an innovative and organic approach, they develop curriculum that contribute to the Brazilian zouk. They have been dancing for year and in 2015 focused their specialization in Brazilian zouk and have been partners since then.
In addition to zouk, Luí and Larissa attend ballet and jazz classes.
They were teachers at the Zouk Day Congress (2018 and 2019).
Larissa was the youngest teacher in the history of this international event.
Luí is an engineering student who uses math and physics to study Zouk-focused dance.
They are also Students and members of Cia Rubia Frutuoso since 2017.
RENATO VERONEZI is one of the biggest names on the Brazilian ballroom dance scene as the creator of Urban Zouk (Vero Zouk). He began his dance career in Jaime Arôxa's dance company in Rio de Janeiro for 10 years. In 2009, he began developing the Urban Zouk style and in 2010, he started his own dance company in São Paulo. Many headlining artists you see today (for example: Dadinho and Pedrinho) joined his company to learn Urban Zouk and then went on to have their own successful international careers as teachers and performers. His style quickly become a massive sensation around the world as he traveled to the UK, Holland, Czech Republic, Australia, USA, and Japan. In 2017 he moved to London for one year to create an Urban Zouk community there together with Pedrinho and Linda Mattos. In June 2018 he moved to Warsaw, Poland where he is promoting Urban Zouk together with his wife Bea Veronezi.
In the Verozouk style hip-hop elements are influencing the zouk. The verozouk style is often danced on hip-hop music with a zouk beat. Renato Veronezi and Babi Pacheco from Brazil introduced this zouk style and are teaching and performing worlwide.
We can not wait to have them here!!!!!
