World Zouk & Lambada

If you're from somewhere other than New York and you dance zouk and lambada, get in touch with me at dance@tropicalny.com so I can add something about where you dance.

Dancers from all over the world dance with various individual and regional styles, experienced or not, but we're all one big happy family who love to dance with one another!

Here's what we've collected so far on contacts around the world:

Argentina

Buenos Aires has some great zouk dancing! Fantastic instructors give free zouk lessons at the clubs, and they offer private lessons as well. Here's a link to Maluca Beleza, a popular zouk dance spot which is a paradise on earth for zouk dancers, and where you can take lessons from Gilson, Fabiola, Patricia, Bebe, and occasionally Didi and Braz, wonderful instructors and dancers, and wonderful people. This is about the best spot in the world for zouk dancing now, as there are many great Argentine and also some of the best dancers to come out of Porto Seguro and other places in Brazil dancing here, too. We have found Maluco Beleza to be one of our favorite places on earth, not just for the great zouk dancing, but also for all of the wonderfully nice people there!

Gilson and Fabiola, the greatest zouk instructors! We recommend that everyone who can take a lesson from them - whether you're a beginner or an instructor!

Find out about one of Buenos Aires' dancers and see more pictures from Maluco Beleza on this site.

There's also a website featuring Claudia Moraes of Porto Seguro at http://orbita.starmedia.com/~lambaporto/index.html.

Claudia now teaches in Buenos Aires at Danzario Americano, at Guardia Vieja 3559, Capital Federal. Telephone: 54-11-4824-7773, email: claudiamoraes@ciudad.com.ar.

Claudio de Oliveira teaches classes at Danzario (see above). You can contact him at Cel: 15-4194-8870, Tel: (54 -11) 4740-9401 / 4783-2010 or email at claudiodeoliveira@hotmail.com

See photos from our 1999 trip and our July 2000 trip.

Australia

There is lambada going on down there!

In Brisbane, Australia, contact Carmel Jackson at cjackson@mater.org.au for more information.

Lambada classes are also available in New South Wales - contact Marcia Pinheiro at mapinheiro@hotmail.com, by phone at (6102) 9386.0567 or mobile (6102)0411.5456.99, or see her class information at http://www.ozemail.com.au/~melsamba/nsw1.htm

Brazil

Also check www.zoukbrasil.com.br for up to date information in Rio and other places in Brazil.

You can also join a lambada-zouk mailing list (mainly in Portuguese), which is hosted by the people in Rio. The address is lambazouk-l@dancadesalao.com. You can find out more information on this site: http://www.dancadesalao.com/agenda.

Belo Horizonte

In Belo Horizonte, you can take zouk dance lessons at a couple places that we know of:

Kina - Núcleo de Dança de Salão at Contorno Avenue, 8741. In the same building there is a dancing floor called Bar Academia, where dance parties are held every month. Contact the school at kinacad@uol.com.br or by phone - (55-31)2910451.

Espaço Brasil has Zouk classes, and parties twice a month (every 1st and 3rd friday of the month). See their website at http://www.geocities.com/espacobrasil.

Rio de Janeiro

In Rio de Janeiro, zouk dancing is becoming increasingly popular again, and there are several places you can go to dance and many instructors.

Ilha das Pescadores, a beautiful outdoor place on an island in the middle of a lake in Barra has zouk and lambada on Thursday and Sunday nights starting at 9pm, with free zouk classes on Sunday nights, but only in the winter. During the summer they only play axe'. Starting April 22, they have started playing zouk and lambada music again!

Quebra Mar is a new place to dance zouk in Rio on Thursday and Sunday nights. For more information, see www.zoukbrasil.com.br.

Adilio and Renata have dance parties on Friday nights. For more information, see www.zoukbrasil.com.br.

Latinidad in the Centro area - Rua do Catete, 112, 2nd floor. Saturday nights are zouk, samba de gafieira, and some salsa and bolero.

Some of the many instructors in Rio are:

Jaime Aroxa Academy: http://www.jaimearoxa.com.br
R. São Clemente, 155. Botafogo - Rio de Janeiro - RJ - Brasil
CEP : 22.260-001
Tel : (021) 266-2615 / 539-8779 - FAX: (021) 246-1425
e-mail: dance@jaimearoxa.com.br
Zouk classes on Tuesday and Thursday nights.

Escola de Danca de Salao Maria Antonieta:
R. do Catete, 112 - 2o andar. Catete. Tel.:(021) 557-3780, 558-8589.
Rio de Janeiro - RJ.

Luis Fernando http://www.dancadesalao.com/clubdozouk
Cellular phone: (021) 9964-2860
e-mail: clubedozouk@uol.com.br
He also has zouk dance parties.

See photos from our 1999 and 2000 trips to Rio.

Sao Paulo

The places to go dancing are Lambar, which has Lambada and Zouk On Thursday and Saturday, and Reggae Night on Saturday. For more information see the Lambar web page. Reggae Night is at Ave Robert Kennedy, 3914 Interlagos.

Fabiana Terra teaches zouk classes. See her webpage at www.ciaterra.com.br or contact her at ciaterra@yahoo.com.br.

There's also a great zouk & lambada website at http://www.net-agenda.com.br/zouk-brasil/ and another one at http://www.esquadro.com.br/~hanibal/.

Porto Seguro

Yes, you can dance zouk in this seaside town in Bahia, Brazil, where zouk dancing was born!

Porto Seguro has a new, huge zouk club! This is a new Maluco Beleza, and it has been opened by Didi and Bras of Porto Seguro (and of Kaoma fame), Gilson, the head instructor at Maluco Beleza in Buenos Aires, and Patricia, with the backing of Maluco Beleza in Buenos Aires.

The new club is on Av. Do Descobrimento, right on the ocean, behind Banco do Brazil in the center of town. This club has been the dream of the founders as well as all the rest of the zouk dancers around the world! Inauguration was January 10, 2001. The club is beautiful, with a great floor, and lots of great music and dancing! We were there in January, 2001, along with dancers from all over the world, and it was awesome! Free group lessons are also being held at 9:00pm. You can check out Maluco Beleza's cool new site for more information on the 3 Maluco Beleza clubs.

See you there next January!

For dance lessons in Porto Seguro, contact:

Didi and Braz at Maluco Beleza
telephone

Claudia
email: claudiamoraes@hotmail.com

See our photos from our 1999, 2000 and 2001 trips to Porto Seguro.

England

London has some good clubs where you can dance lambada and many instructors also offer classes. There is an annual competition as well. Check out the England webpages below for more information. Below is the information we've received.

Clubs

Clubahia is perfect located in the heart of that irrepressibly stylish part of Kings Road, at Shoeless Joe's, 555 Kings Road London SW6. ( Fulham Broadway tube)

El Metro

Bar Madrid - we hear it's back open again.

Instructors

Berg
http://www.lambada.co.uk/.

Patricia Rezende
www.beija-flor.co.uk
mail@beija-flor.co.uk
Tel 0044-181-874-1374; Mobile: 0956-669054

Rosa Nazira
http://www.users.globalnet.co.uk/~srmoll/rosa.html
rosanazira@hotmail.com
Tel 0044 (0)20 8570 1045; mobile: 0044 (0)20 8570 1045

Roberto & Grazia
Mandacaru Latin
www.deptfordnet.org.uk/mandacaru/index.html.
mandacaru@latindance.freeserve.co.uk
Fax +44 (0)181 699 3194 (UK) Telephone +55 (0)181 675 1298

See www.lambadanews.com/ for lots more information on zouk & lambada in the UK.

France

There are a lot of great zouk clubs in Paris, but people generally dance in Caribbean style, not lambada. If you dance in France, please get in touch with us and let us know who and where you are! Some of the clubs that are said to be good, though, are: Atlantis and Astros.

Israel

We're told there are a lot of dancers there, but we don't know where. Check our Guestbook. If you dance in Israel, let us know what's going on there!

Japan

There are a few lambada dance schools in Tokyo, including:

Lambacana, taught by Enomoto
Contact Enomoto at lambaca@qb3.so-net.ne.jp.

Tropical Lambateria - a lambada dance club and dance lessons - contact Haruo Mori at lambateria@hotmail.com or PHS 070-5132-2941

Classes taught by Fujiko - contact her at milla@vm01.vaio.ne.jp or 044-556-5528

Tropical Danca, taught by Jin - contact Jin at 03-3377-2735

Tokyo also has a new club where you can dance zouk & lambada and take lessons - El Cafe Latino in Roppongi (tel 03-3402-8989). Contact Haruo Mori (above).

Mallorca

They are dancing zouk in this little island of Spain, and one of the places you can go to dance and take lessons is:

Made in Brasil at Passeig maritim, 27 Palma de Mallorca
Contact Didac Gener at donjoan@olemail.com for more information.
They are planning a world lambada encontro THAT HAS BEEN POSTPONED UNTIL MARCH OF 2002! See more information at: http://www.esquadro.com.br/~hanibal/zoukbr/eventos/mallorca/mallorca.htm .

The Netherlands

You can learn zouk in The Netherlands in The Hague and Amsterdam with Claudio Gomes. See his web page!