Specialized in Bachata, twists and acrobatics, Antoni is from Venezuela, Belen from Argentina and they both live in Madrid, Spain.
One of the greatest bachata couples in the world, Antoni & Belen will share their acrobatic techniques and amazing moves to surprise the audience on stage!
Teachers, Dancers, and Choreographers.
They started their partnership in 2015, aiming at the evolution and propagation of Brazilian Zouk around the world. Together they believe teaching in a natural, fun and continuous way so that the student becomes the dancer/professional they want to be. Rafael and Izabel introduce dance in a technical and simple way conveying lightness in the dance for everyone.
Furthermore, Rafael and Izabel are currently the main representatives of the Alex de Carvalho (MAC) method in Rio de Janeiro.
Develop your technique, planning, strategies and strong mentality with this couple who are the greatest champion trainers in Brazil!
Victor and Karen are Mexicans.
Professional Salsa and Bachata dancers, focused on Salsa Cabaret.
4 times world champions:
• Euroson Latino 2022
• Salsa Festival in Cali 2023
• Puntal Pie 2023 and 2024
A dive into the highest level of development of acrobatic dances adapted for zouk, with this Mexican couple, 4 times world champions.
Break your limits and develop techniques that will allow you to upgrade your performance on stage.
International Brazilian Zouk and Lambada dancers and teachers from São Paulo, Marck & Melyssa, known by the versatility of styles, energy and dance technique, began their studies together and partnership in 2017.
Creators of the group “Geração São Paulo” which aims to promote the São Paulo’s Brazilian Zouk and Lambada scene in Brazil and in the world.
They competed in many national and international Brazilian Zouk and Lambada competitions, such as: IZC São Paulo – Professional 2017 and 2018; IV International Rio Zouk Competition – Professional 2018; Brazil Zouk Open – Professional 2019; Brazil Latin Open – Professional 2019, reaching the podium in all of them; They’re the winners of the Brazilian Zouk World Championship SHOWTIME division 2022 and 2023.
Partners and friends, M&M want to bring people the happiness that the art of dance brings them, through a mixture of the essence and modernity of Brazilian Zouk and Lambada.
Develop skills in emotional control, movement strategies, and creativity with this couple who have been on the podium several times at J&J. They have a high success rate and good results in competitions all over the world.
Specialist in creating choreographies and shows, based on ballroom dancing. Extensive experience in the artistic, educational, technical and management areas.
As a show director, coordinator of cultural projects, technical coordinator of show productions, school manager, choreographer, teacher, speaker and dancer. Master in Administration – Contemporary Management of Organizations – from the Dom Cabral Foundation, with research in the area of cultural management and contributions of the arts to management.
He is currently President of the Mimulus Cultural Association, artistic director and choreographer of the Mimulus Dance Company, where he developed his own innovative language with partner dances. He studied Pedagogy of Movement for Teaching Dance at UFMG and several training courses in different types of dance, choreographic composition, circus, theater, lighting, music, in schools in Brazil, Cuba, France, Spain, Costa Rica, Argentina, England, USA. Certificate of Master Artist of Dance, from Stanford University, USA.
His shows have received numerous awards and recognition from specialized critics, being presented in around 80 cities in more than 17 countries. In addition to Mimulus, he has directed and choreographed for companies such as: São Paulo Dance Company, Balé Teatro Castro Alves, Bolshoi do Brasil, G2 do Teatro Guaíra, Sociedade Masculina, Companhia de Dança de Minas Gerais, Grupo Galpão, Ballet Jovem Minas Gerais, among others.
Learn all about choreography, dance shows, projects with the greatest choreographer of Brazilian couple dances in Brazil, who performs all over the world through the Mimulus dance company.
In Brazil they carried out local projects where they were teaching classes for study groups for a year training new dancers with their methodology that in addition to teaching how to dance Brazilian zouk is also a great method to transform lives through art.
They live together in Lisbon and created the Brazilian zouk scene in Lisbon and today they directors responsible for directing and representing Brazilian zouk in Portugal, thus promoting classes, events, festivals and training new local professionals.
In view of their careers, we can say that the partnership started in September 2020, and since then they have been following a brilliant and unparalleled career, being sought after worldwide and being part of the international council of Brazilian zouk, in which they are organizers of events and official judges qualified through the council.
Currently, they are the only ones who use a didactic approach where they combine technique with movement mechanics and neurolinguistic programming as a way to have personal development and more personal evolution through the art of Brazilian zouk.
Proposal, organization, emotion are some of the characteristics of this formidable couple, who wherever they go, provoke a reaction in the public at the time of the demonstration, consecrating a fundamental action in the choice and strategies for the end of the class.
Thibault and Nicole’s story began in 2015, where dance became their universal language. Despite Thibault only speaking French and Nicole only speaking English, their connection on the dance floor transcended words. They continued to dance together, gradually learning each other’s languages, and, in January 2019, they officially announced their partnership. Since then, their bond has grown both on and off the floor, as they’ve become partners in both dance and life.
Together, Thibault and Nicole are three-time West Coast Swing Showcase World Champions, with a combined ten World Championship titles. Thibault has earned French titles in Boogie Woogie and was the first European to win an Opus at The Open Swing Dance Championships, and is the first French Showcase World Champion in West Coast Swing history. Nicole is a trained solo and partner dancer having won many titles in the Junior and Adult divisions as well as 7 World Champion Titles in the Showcase Division. She also appeared on shows and music videos including Dancing with the Stars and So You Think You Can Dance. As renowned performers and instructors, they travel to dance events worldwide 40+ weekends per year, bringing unparalleled knowledge, passion, and artistry to every stage.
Known for their precise and engaging teaching style, Thibault and Nicole bring over 20 years of expertise in West Coast Swing and various dance styles. Their classes are rooted in technical precision and creative expression within a lively, supportive environment. Their infectious enthusiasm inspires students of all levels to reach their fullest potential. Warm, approachable, and always connecting with people on and off the dance floor, Thibault and Nicole are true leaders in the global dance community.
Discover, develop and create your own moves and possibilities with this incredible three-time West Coast Swing Showcase World Champions.
Starting their partnership in 2018, and combining their methodological expertise with her cultural insights, Ariel and Leticia have established themselves as references in the world of Lambada. They gave workshops in more than 20 countries in Latin America, Europe and Asia, training internationally renowned professionals and participating in the some of the biggest lambada and Brazilian Zouk festivals in the world. In 2021, they were selected to choreograph the International Lambada Flashmob, reaching over 1000 participants of more than 40 nationalities. They are members of the Lambada World Dance Council (LWDC) and lead all classes of the “Ariel and Leticia – Lambada Mastery” biggest lambada course in the world, wich take place in Poland and since 2022, annually attracts participants from all over the Americas, Europe, Africa, Asia and Oceania.
Discover the most complex movements of Lambada with the number 1 couple of this dance in the world! Trainers of several professionals, they will bring the highest level of complexity of lambada to zoukeiros.
World renowned Latin dance professionals Kadu Pires and Larissa Thayane, they started dancing together in 2005 in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil. In 2007 they moved to Australia where they worked at Rio Rhythmics Latin Dance School for 5 years, in 2012 they founded their school called K&L Dance.
Kadu was born in Sao Paulo where he started his studies in Latin dance. At 18 years old he moved to Rio de Janeiro where he started teaching and performing with Jimmy de Oliveira and Alex de Carvalho dance companies.
Larissa was born in Campo Mourao, Parana. At 14 years old she moved to Curitiba where she graduated at Escola de Danças Classicas Teatro Guaira in ballet and contemporary. She also joined the University of Dance (Faculdade de Artes do Parana). 4 years later Larissa got hired to work at the Youth Company of Rio de Janeiro Theatre where they performed all over Brazil. One of the highlights of her career was to perform at the Kennedy Centre with the National Symphonic Orquestra in Washington DC, USA.
Since 2007, they spend up to 46 weekends in the year travelling to teach, perform, choreograph and judge at the world’s most important dance events and competitions. They have been instrumental in boosting the popularity of Brazilian Zouk and Samba de Gafieira internationally. Their credits include competition wins and television appearances in Brazil and in Australia where they lived for 10 years, including choreographing for So You Think You Can Dance Australia and judging at the World Latin Dance Cup.
In 2013 they founded the K&L Dance School in Brisbane and in 2014 Larissa founded the Brazilian Zouk Dance Council (BZDC).
Impress, thrill and challenge on stage with the legends of brazilian zouk in the world!
Leo & Ana begin their dance career through classical ballet and jazz as children, but their paths intersect only in the year 2015, when Ana was approved at an audition for a Leo team at his dance school. Leo and Ana are recognized for their technique, a quality of their shows that mix elements of Lambada, Zouk and other dances, and versatility in the social to dance various styles of music, this partnership has developed focused on studying of all existent styles of Lambada and Zouk, aiming to offer to the students a 360º panorama of what happens in the zouk community.
For them the diversity of zouk and the dialogue between styles, is what makes the community so special. They test their studies in the main competitions of Lambada and Zouk in Brazil, consecrated 2 times champions of Lambada world championship in Porto Seguro, and in June of 2017 were the first placed of Brazil Latin Open, Brazilian championship of Zouk, judging by Renata Pecanha, Philip Miha, Gabriel Salgado, Leticia Beltrán, Karen Forcano and Ricardo Vega, competing with the best zouk couples in Brazil, selected and invited to compete by Rafael Barros and Carine Morais, organizers of this great competition.
Since 2016 they have traveled around the world as instructors and international artists from Lambada and Zouk, and have taught in more than 40 cities around 20 countries in Europe, Oceania, Asia, South and North America.
Challenge and creativity will be part of the complex Zouk movements class with Léo & Ana, one of the most modern couples of today!
Latin dance professionals William Teixeira and Irene Silvia started dancing in Madrid, Spain in 2018 and started travelling together. 3rd place at the bachatea professional division 2020, William and Irene are Brazilian Zouk world champions.
William Teixeira Brazilian Zouk World Champion and 1 of the World at J&J competition scoring. Started dance in 2006 in Alex de Carvalho School, and has the largest part of their work toward the Zouk. Dancer, choreographer and teacher, worked in Londrina ( PR ) for two years in Ritt School of Dance and was also part of Cia Ritt , where he studied brazilian ballroom dance, Ballet and Jazz. He participated in television programs and for 5 years was part of main group of Samba School in Rio de Janeiro Carnival, Owner of WT International Dance Company.
Irene silvia Teixeira Brazilian Zouk world champion, started her career with 7 years old. She started her formation in dancing with ballroom dances where she conquer a lot of championship during many years trained by Valery Ivanov, Pietro Braga and Frederick Mossa.
After 11 years of success in ballroom she decided to start training new rhythms like salsa, bachata and kizomba. Being formed by many different teachers and working in festivals.
Since 2018, dancing, teaching and performing together.
Nowadays they are based in Madrid – Spain, where they are working to improve the grow of a Kizomba, Bachata and Zouk community, with classes, workshops and their Madrid Zouk Bachata Congress event.
Come and develop your musicality at the highest possible level in instruments and voice with this couple who are one of the most hired in the world!
Dancers,teachers, judges, choreographers.
The Brazilian couple thatis passionate about dance. Together,they began to win a number of awards in dance festivals throughout Brazil. Paulo and Luiza were part of CiaOkan (São Paulo – Brasil) where they both refined their technique and today are considered one ofthe most professional Zouk instructors with a high level of instruction and performance skills.
Living in Miami,they hold the Brazilian Zouk Champion (Brasil LatinOpen
2018) title and they have trained and competed for several dance competitions.Nowadays, they are one ofthe mosttechnical couples with
high level instruction and performance skill set. In their abilities,they are also championship coaches. They have trained several champion couples to compete and succeed. They also hold the title ofthree times champions in the Zouk Teams category from the Brazilian ZoukWorld Championship.
They founded ZoukUnitedDance Studio in Miami in 2019 and in 2024 opened a branch ofthe school in Boston . Today itis a school with visibility and credibility in theUnited States and in theWorld, where they are also teachers, directors, and dancers forthe current world zouk champion in the Team category.
Overcome yourself with incredible couple who today stand out as the most complete performance of Brazilian zouk in the world!