Interfusion Festival X (IFX)

Do you ever feel nervous asking someone to dance? Or during the dance? Me too!
In this workshop we will explore ways to express and show compassion and empathy for each other, and ourselves, on the dance floor. Starting from before we even arrive at the party.
Using the principles of patience and non-assumption, we create more space for ourselves and our partners to simply exist. And in that simple, quiet space, we can find our magic.
The class will include some discussion, as well as exercises on how to approach and begin a dance, what to do during a dance, how to end a dance, and how to think about the dances we have. While the focus will be on Brazilian Zouk application, the principles can apply to all partner dances.

🌶️ 🌶️ Medium: The workshop invites sensuality, moving touch, cuddles, or extended close physical contact with others, but does NOT invite sexuality or nudity.

This progressive workshop series will give you the tools you need to start your journey in Brazilian Zouk. Learn the fundamentals, understand a bit of our history and etiquette, and be prepared to step into a brand new world of limitless possibilities in shared, expressive dance.  

🌶️ 🌶️  Medium: The workshop invites sensuality, moving touch, cuddles, or extended close physical contact with others, but does NOT invite sexuality or nudity.

Ry’el will take you on a fun journey through the feeling of Brazilian Zouk Lambada in chronological order—from its origins to present day.  The goal of this workshop is to provide leaders and followers alike, a seamless flow within a structure.  We will learn the dance through 3  kinetic geometrical “alphabets”— circle, line and diagonals— taking your dancing from print to cursive through a series of fundamental steps and combinations, developing smooth transitions and flow between each one of them.

🌶️ Mild: The workshop does not invite sensuality or sexuality. There will be no facilitator invitations to cuddle or share moving touch, plus no welcoming or invoking of sexual energy. Any partner dancing that occurs will default to or center open position.

At first glance, Zouk might look like big flashy hair whips, serpent-like body rolls, and gravity-defying tilted one-footed spins! And it is all that! But there’s also a tiny little world of intricate pathways that we explore in each other's bodies that are sometimes even imperceptible to people watching.  In this class, we will explore those pathways. We’ll explore principles of touch, frameworks for exploring micro-movements, and lots of exercises to help you be more mindful, creative, and comfortable while dancing zouk in close embrace.

🌶️ 🌶️  Medium-spicy (The workshop invites extended close physical contact with others significantly more so than usual): The workshop invites sensuality, moving touch, cuddles, or extended close physical contact with others, but does NOT invite sexuality or nudity.