Brazilian Zouk Weekend Vienna Sindi 🇨🇴 + Guido 🇦🇹 + Maria 🇺🇦 4-6 April 2026

A full weekend dedicated to finally really understanding Brazilian Zouk. Learn new material — but more importantly understand how and why it works. From solid fundamentals to advanced concepts, plus a short but deep dive into the connection between Zouk and Lambada. Whether you are just starting or already dancing for years, this weekend is designed to give you clarity, structure, and a deeper understanding of how everything connects. ━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━ ⭐️ PROGRAM ⭐️ ━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━ 🔸 SATURDAY – BASIC INTENSIVE (5h incl. breaks) 🕒 11:15 doors open 🕦 11:30 start sharp 🕟 16:30 end A focused intensive to build and refine your Zouk basics. We will: • break down the essential mechanics • clean up technique and timing • answer open questions • give you a clear structure you can rely on Perfect for: • dancers who want to rebuild or polish their foundation • also suitable for complete Zouk beginners with some dance or body awareness background Breaks included, with enough time to rest and have a bite. ━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━ 🔸 SUNDAY – OPEN LEVEL + practice ━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━ 🕑 14:00 Brazilian Zouk for all levels (2h) 🕟 16:30 Lambada into Zouk (2h, Learn about the root and how to use in Zouk) 🍽 18:45 Open Practice & Dinner Time (dance & eat freely) This day is about understanding how things really work — so you can actually use them in your dancing. We will explore: • more complex Zouk movements built on solid technique • different versions and variations of the same concepts • adapting movements to your level • how Zouk movements are built and connected • selected insights from Lambada and how they apply to Zouk Perfect for both Zouk dancers and Lambada lovers. ━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━ 🔸 MONDAY – INTERMEDIATE & ADVANCED (4h) ━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━ 🕑 14:00 – 18:00 workshops 🍽 18:00 dinner break & practice 🎉 19:00 Zouk Social (weekly Monday social, but this time in Grätzlzentrum) We go deeper into: • technique refinement • more about Zouk logic • flow and advanced combinations • musicality and adaptability • connection and control • advanced head movement technique • key “secrets” behind head movements This is where you stop guessing and start truly understanding how Zouk works — including head movements. And then we dance. ━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━ 💃 ABOUT THE TEACHERS 💃 ━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━ ━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━ 🔸 GUIDO ASCHENBRENNER (Austria) ━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━ International Zouk instructor and pioneer of the Vienna Zouk scene since 2011. Known for his deep technical understanding, clear teaching structure, and ability to explain how movements actually work. In addition to his extensive Zouk background, Guido has recently been focusing strongly on Lambada as a core foundation of Brazilian Zouk. Earlier this month he placed in a Lambada Jack & Jill and moved up to the Intermediate division after just over one year of competing. His teaching connects logic, technique, and feeling in a way that makes complex concepts accessible and usable. ━━━━━━━━━━━━━━ 🔸 SINDI OBANDO (Colombia) ━━━━━━━━━━━━━━ International Zouk teacher based in Colombia, regularly teaching at major congresses in Brazil, Colombia, Mexico and beyond. She has worked with top artists such as Octavio, Kakah, Luan and many others. She is also part of the organization team of Colombia Secret and Zouk MX, one of the most important events worldwide. Her dancing stands out through exceptional body control, smoothness, adaptability, and high level technique. Recently she has been deepening her Lambada knowledge through intensive training in Brazil and Mexico. ━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━ 🔸 MARIA STRONSKA (Ukraine / Austria) ━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━ MAC certified Brazilian Zouk instructor based in Graz. Maria combines strong technical training with elegance and precision. She has extensive experience in competitions and teaching, and is known for her clarity, structure, and attention to detail. Her focus is on helping students understand their body and movement in a clean and efficient way. ━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━ 📩 REGISTRATION ━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━ Mandatory registration: https://tinyurl.com/BZW2026-04 Please 𝗿𝗲𝗴𝗶𝘀𝘁𝗲𝗿 𝗲𝗮𝗿𝗹𝘆 so we can plan properly and keep a good leader follower balance. 𝗟𝗮𝘀𝘁 𝗱𝗮𝘆 𝘁𝗼 𝗿𝗲𝗴𝗶𝘀𝘁𝗲𝗿 𝗪𝗘𝗗, 𝟭𝘀𝘁 𝗔𝗽𝗿𝗶𝗹 ━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━ 💰 PRICING ━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━ For this weekend, we are using a flexible pricing system — based on trust, fairness, and community. You can choose between three options: • 𝗡𝗼𝗿𝗺𝗮𝗹 𝗽𝗿𝗶𝗰𝗲 → the standard option most people choose • 𝗦𝘂𝗽𝗽𝗼𝗿𝘁𝗲𝗿 𝗽𝗿𝗶𝗰𝗲 → if you can contribute a bit more and actively support the teachers, the event, and the growth of the community • 𝗥𝗲𝗱𝘂𝗰𝗲𝗱 𝗽𝗿𝗶𝗰𝗲 → if you currently need a lighter option — no questions asked This system allows us to keep the event accessible, while still making it sustainable. Please use it responsibly. If you are 𝗶𝗻 𝗮 𝗽𝗼𝘀𝗶𝘁𝗶𝗼𝗻 to choose the 𝘀𝘂𝗽𝗽𝗼𝗿𝘁𝗲𝗿 𝗽𝗿𝗶𝗰𝗲, you 𝗱𝗶𝗿𝗲𝗰𝘁𝗹𝘆 𝗵𝗲𝗹𝗽 𝗻𝘂𝗿𝘁𝘂𝗿𝗶𝗻𝗴 𝘁𝗵𝗲 𝗰𝗼𝗺𝗺𝘂𝗻𝗶𝘁𝘆 and 𝗰𝗿𝗲𝗮𝘁𝗲 𝗼𝗽𝗽𝗼𝗿𝘁𝘂𝗻𝗶𝘁𝗶𝗲𝘀 𝗹𝗶𝗸𝗲 𝘁𝗵𝗶𝘀 — bringing high-level teachers, keeping events running, and making sure 𝗲𝘃𝗲𝗿𝘆𝗼𝗻𝗲 𝗰𝗮𝗻 𝗷𝗼𝗶𝗻 even if money is tight at times. Thank you for being part of this ❤️ ━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━ 🎟 PRICES ━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━ 𝗦𝗔𝗧𝗨𝗥𝗗𝗔𝗬 – 𝗕𝗔𝗦𝗜𝗖 𝗜𝗡𝗧𝗘𝗡𝗦𝗜𝗩𝗘 (𝟰.𝟱𝗵) Normal: 70 € | Supporter: 85 € | Reduced: 50 € 𝗦𝗨𝗡𝗗𝗔𝗬 – 𝗢𝗣𝗘𝗡 𝗟𝗘𝗩𝗘𝗟 (𝟰𝗵) Normal: 60 € | Supporter: 75 € | Reduced: 40 € 𝗦𝗨𝗡𝗗𝗔𝗬 – 𝗢𝗣𝗘𝗡 𝗟𝗘𝗩𝗘𝗟 (𝟮𝗵 𝗼𝗽𝘁𝗶𝗼𝗻) Normal: 35 € | Supporter: 40 € | Reduced: 25 € 𝗠𝗢𝗡𝗗𝗔𝗬 – 𝗜𝗡𝗧𝗘𝗥𝗠𝗘𝗗𝗜𝗔𝗧𝗘 / 𝗔𝗗𝗩𝗔𝗡𝗖𝗘𝗗 (𝟰𝗵) Normal: 65 € | Supporter: 80 € | Reduced: 45 € 🔄 𝐂𝐎𝐌𝐁𝐈𝐍𝐀𝐓𝐈𝐎𝐍𝐒 𝗕𝗔𝗦𝗜𝗖 + 𝗢𝗣𝗘𝗡 (𝗦𝗮𝘁 + 𝗦𝘂𝗻) Normal: 120 € | Supporter: 145 € | Reduced: 80 € 𝗢𝗣𝗘𝗡 + 𝗜𝗡𝗧/𝗔𝗗𝗩 (𝗦𝘂𝗻 + 𝗠𝗼𝗻) Normal: 115 € | Supporter: 140 € | Reduced: 75 € 𝗙𝗨𝗟𝗟 𝗣𝗔𝗦𝗦 (𝗮𝗹𝗹 𝗱𝗮𝘆𝘀) Normal: 150 € | Supporter: 180 € | Reduced: 99 € _________________________ ━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━ 📍 LOCATION SAT & MON ━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━ Grätzlzentrum 1020 Wien Max Winter Platz 23 Building in the park opposite No. 10 ━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━ 📍 LOCATION SUN ━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━ tba ━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━ TERMS & CONDITIONS ━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━ With the registration or by purchasing the ticket you agree with the following terms & conditions: *) Registrations are bound to your name and need to be paid within three days unless agreed otherwise *) In case the workshop cannot take place for whatever reason (which is very unlikely), the amount received by Zouk-Vienna will be fully refunded. *) Minimum participants: 3 couples *) Participation in the event and free time in venue(s) at your own risk. *) No liability of Zouk-Vienna for accidents. *) No liability of Zouk-Vienna for loss of or damage to any of your belongings. *) Any changes (schedule, teachers, DJs, venue,...) may be applied even at short notice. 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