Warsaw Zouk Festival 2025 Iago & Van Passo Bebado recap

14 Feb 2025 · 2 min

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In this concise recap from the Warsaw Zouk Festival 2025, instructors Iago (Speaker A) and Vanessa (Speaker B) demonstrate how to teach and practice the Soltinho and Passo Bebado when the social floor is cramped. They first shrink the lateral movement, reducing projection and focusing energy between the partners rather than toward the room’s edges. Two lunge options are explored: a “drunk” step that leans the back and relaxes the arm, and a more straightforward walking step. They emphasize delaying pressure on the turn to avoid premature rotation, then execute a clean turn and embrace. Throughout, they vocalize rhythmic counts (e.g., “boom, chi chi,” “kung fu, cheek”) to illustrate timing and musicality. The dialogue is informal yet instructional, highlighting practical adjustments for dancers facing spatial constraints.

Hello everybody!
Beautiful! Today we tried to— actually, between us, just us, okay? That was not the class, but we didn't have much space, so then we changed it. So we played, we still play with the structure. That's a good topic because of that. And then we tried to do soltinho. With bebado and in a circular way to when we don't have much space on the social. Okay, so we start with the lateral. This lateral already we try to do a little bit smaller. Okay.
Less projection.
More aiming to the energy more inside between me and Vanessa and less on the corners right there. Second one we did lunge. First option, drunk step, giving my back, and then relax my arm coming back. Drunk, relax, and come back. Option number 2, we walk.
Boom, chi chi.
On this first chi, I'm already aiming for this direction right here, my right side.
Kung fu, cheek, cheek.
Don't go earlier with this pressure on the turn. If not, they will turn early. And then simple turn and embrace. Okay, everything direct. One more time.
Boom, cheek, cheek, boom, cha, cha, boom, cha, cha, boom, cha, cha, boom, cha, cha, boom. Good. Yeah.