Honolulu Zouk Choreography Performance Team Winter 2017

Welcome to Honolulu Zouk Winter Choreography Team 2017-2018! WHO CAN DO IT? Those with zouk technique training, or the ability to learn choreography and an intermediate/advanced proficiency in another dance/movement form with instructor approval. This choreography will involve turns and head movement (yay!) and requires solid zouk technique. Please contact Kimberly Loo if you are interested in joining! GOALS: -Build Vocabulary of Zouk Movements through Choreography -Gain Confidence and Performance Skills -Develop Zouk Timing & Musicality -Utilize Breath and Core as Movement Base -Better control of the body -Insert Emotion and Showmanship into dance WHAT TO EXPECT: +3 Month Commitment +Nov 7, 2017 - Feb 28, 2018 +$100/month or $360 in advance +Once a week 1.6 hr +Tuesdays 6:55 p.m. - 8:30 p.m.. +Rehearsals run by Kimberly Loo, Joshua Javier, Mic Lee, Mahina Hong +Full Time Students, Training Team & Hottie Heels Team Members please message Mic Lee for discount ADDITIONAL BENEFITS: +Free entrance to Honolulu Zouk Sunday Social +Free Sunday technique classes when taught by Honolulu Zouk Instructors +Discounts on Visiting Instructor Workshops COMMUNICATION: All updates will be posted on Facebook Messenger Group Chat Please Read Updates and respond when necessary Please review video of prior week’s practice and be ready to learn new material each week Please notify Kimberly when you’ll be missing practice. A missed rehearsal gives you a $15 credit toward private lessons to make up what you missed. (Regular Price Privates: Kimberly $75, Mic $60, Together $100) CALENDAR Learn 2 eight counts of choreography per session 1 November: First Half of Choreography 2 3 4 5 December: Second half of choreography 6 7 8 9 January: Clean choreography, Assign Partners and Formations 10 11 12 13 Dress Rehearsal Performance at Hawaii Salsa Congress 2018 Performance at Polearity Student Showcase Performance at Honolulu Zouk Sunday Other performances may TBA ______________________________________________________ LOCATION Polearity Studio 111 N. King St 2B, Honolulu HI 96817 Parking behind the building 120 N Nimitz Hwy Park for free; entrance on Nimitz just after Maunakea. Go to this Dropped Pin https://goo.gl/maps/RX9vdzvNYHR2 Walk into lobby of Chinese restaurant, take elevator to 2nd floor. Dance Studio is on your right. Enter Code 2480 to enter. Here is a saveable photo showing directions and parking location:https://www.facebook.com/photo.php?fbid=10100943032941354&set=gm.1856701921237385&type=3&theater ______________________________________________________ ABOUT HONOLULU ZOUK Kimberly Loo founded Honolulu Zouk in 2015 as a vehicle for creating a dance family around teaching, performing, and choreographing Brazilian Zouk fused with other dances. Her dance philosophy is based around a desire for each dancer to celebrate awareness of their bodies, and to find joy in connecting with themselves, accepting their sensuality and ability to express themselves through movement. The Honolulu Zouk logo emphasizes how 'ono (delicious) zouk is, and how its dancers love to zouk always and all ways. Kimberly's teaching style is influenced by her ballet background and accepting of nonheteronormative dance roles. In its first year, Honolulu Zouk was invited to perform for "zouk royalty" at Zouk Night Love in Mexico and received a standing ovation. We perform locally, nationally, and internationally. Honolulu Zouk is comprised of several performance teams, a weekly zouk fusion social, ongoing technique classes, and frequent visiting instructors. Please contact [email protected] and come join the family or if you're interested in a performance! ______________________________________________________ ABOUT KIMBERLY LOO Kimberly Loo began dance training at age 4 just couldn't stop. She holds a Bachelor's degree in Dance with a Performance and Choreography emphasis from Pomona College in California alongside a Yoga Teacher Training Certification from Mahatma Yoga in India. Kimberly's formal training encompasses over two decades of ballet, jazz, modern, international ballroom, salsa, bachata, pole, some acrobatics, and her favorite, Brazilian Zouk. Kimberly has won 2nd in the Pro-Am Jack & Jill at Seattle Zouk, twice won the Formation Team Division of the National Collegiate Championships in International Ballroom (both Latin and Standard), the Hawaii Salsa Championship, won runner up at the Texas Salsa Open, placed in several BZDC Strictly Zouk and Zouk Jack & Jills, and has been invited to perform and teach throughout the Aloha state and in California, Texas, Mexico, Morocco, and India. Her dance career as a performer has spanned from the commercial to the burlesque. Kimberly actively pursues spreading the warm fuzzy feelings of dance to every audience and every social dance partner she encounters, and founded Honolulu Zouk to create a dance family around this love. ===UPCOMING HONOLULU ZOUK EVENTS=== Drop-in classes and Social (Sun 7-11) Heels Choreography Team (Sun 6-7) Choreography Performance Team (Tues 6:55-8:15) Travelling Performance Team (Tues 8:30-10:15) Fundamentals of Zouk Training Team (Wed 8:15-9:45) HONOLULU ZOUK SUNDAY Polearity Studio https://www.facebook.com/groups/hnlzouk/ The longest running zouk social around! Enjoy different class series from 6-930, and a social dance party from 930-11. Each week we bring you a different Japanese rice wine to sample. Hosted by Kimberly Loo and Mic Lee of HNL Zouk. HNL ZOUK HOTTIE HEELS DANCE TEAM 6-7pm Sundays Oct 22 2017 - Jan 28 2018 https://www.facebook.com/events/1467854203250761 Unleash your inner diva! Taking new members for our Winter Season! Learn a sexy dance routine inspired by Yanis Marshall's style and strut your high heels! All genders welcome. Optional performance opportunities. MICHAEL DEMSKI HONOLULU ZOUK WEEKEND Nov 2-5 2017 https://www.facebook.com/events/1959671887644132/ Michael fell in love with partner dancing while researching means of developing movements within the concepts of physical connection/conversation. After many years of moving through contact improv, fusion, zouk, and other traditional and modern styles, he is more and more interested in the potential of partner dance as a highly beneficial and positive force in the world. HNL ZOUK CHOREO PERFORMANCE TEAM Tuesdays 6:55-8:30p, Nov 8 2017-Jan 30 2018 https://www.facebook.com/events/833042136857549/ Learn an intermediate level zouk choreography with fun people in a team environment; perform throughout Honolulu with your team! HAWAII ZOUK FESTIVAL Nov 15-20 2017 Hawaii Zouk Festival www.zoukinhawaii.com Discount on pass with code HZF17-HNL ZENZOUK IN HONOLULU! RY'EL & JESSICA Dec 2017 Thrilled can't even describe how we feel about this. Stay tuned for details! BRAD MECCIA Jan 2018 SALSA & BACHATA IN HAWAII CONGRESS WITH ZOUK & KIZOMBA Jan 31 - Feb 3 2018 Discount on pass with code "hnlzouk" www.salsainhawaii.com BEN SODENKAMP Feb-Mar 2018 FOLLOW HNL ZOUK TO STAY IN THE LOOP Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/groups/hnlzouk Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/kimberly.loo/ www.HNLzouk.com ♥ Kimberly Loo