Warsaw Zouk Festival 2025 Carlos & Fernanda World Moves Body roll recap

15 Feb 2025 · 3 min

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In this instructional segment from the Warsaw Zouk Festival 2025, instructor Carlos (Speaker A) leads an intermediate‑to‑advanced workshop focusing on body rolls, circular head movements, weight transfers, and turn variations within partner Zouk. He demonstrates how to prepare the follower with lateral tilts, elbow positioning, and gravity cues, then executes a full‑circle turn followed by a double‑circle and an explosive knee action. He emphasizes maintaining appropriate distance, changing hand holds, and integrating butterfly roll variations (including passing under and re‑entering the butterfly). The dialogue includes brief participant interjections (Speaker B) and references to workshop attendees Brad, Barrios, and Saab, highlighting individualized coaching moments. The session concludes with a reminder about time constraints while encouraging the dancers to apply the taught concepts.

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This was like intermediate level. Yeah, don't forget, but progressive to advance. Yeah, from the side lateral, we had the preparation here with the tilt and turn of the lead. This indicate the follower to tilt and the right elbow for she knows where to go. She goes last head, passes through, when she's passing, I grab, maintain the flow, continue the circular head movement. We prep it here with the A single and Stop. When you get a hit, I already changed my weight to gravity to go to this way. She's already feel the difference of the gravity. She knows that I'm preparing for turn of excess. I will turn one full circle, prep again in 8. See that the prep is more positive here, a bit more torsion. And then we go double full circle. Now change direction, open to the right side. Now we're gonna make it again and try that explosive knee. Could be just stepping, marking, or on the spot how we trained. Do it on the spot. Okay, now it's gonna go head last as well. Pass combo. 1, emphasize the back. Leaders, be careful to don't be too close. She cannot pass, so make sure that you create space. She has a lot of space to go. 2. Now here, we could finish like, I don't know, bachata.
Bachata?
Or we can— I do this music too. Or from here, we could just do the turn on the access. Remember to change the hand in 2, grab in 3. She caught. He, instead of to the single normal butterfly roll, he's gonna pass under and get on the butterfly here. Prep and basic step. A bit more smooth. We go lateral, we open, we prep in 1, leg can be up, 2. Okay, hold and go 3, open, go 1, 2. Double or more. Brad, Barrios, decide then. Saab, because she finished, for you and Saab. Okay?
Bravo!
We are running behind the time, but we're gonna do the best, yeah?