Zouk Gnome Zouk Care Day 3.0! Sun. 7 5, 11am-6pm CDT, w Guests!

Hey there international Zouk family! In the past I traveled extensively to bring you workshops, so why stop now? From the comfort of your living room/kitchen/backyard studio you can enjoy a day of classes with me as well as connect with Zoukers keeping dance alive in their hearts and bodies all over the world! Before we get started, bring your favorite tea or coffee to the Zoom room and make some new friends! It's been lovely getting to know everyone a bit before we dive into the day. After that, my friends and I will bring you on a 6-class journey from warm up through adventure and cool down. You will relax, you will sweat, you will think, you will feel, and you will fly! All classes will be recorded and made available for one week after the event in case you miss any or would like to take them again. The schedule will be as follows: 11am | Coffee/Tea Time! 12pm | Warm up with Tiffany and Alanna! 1pm | Ballet for Zoukers 2pm | Balance and Stability 3pm | Zouk Foundations 4pm | Head Movement 5pm | Creativity and Flow with Brigitte Wittmer! 6pm | Afterparty at the Gnomery *all times in CDT Each class will be 50 minutes + 10 minute break at the end $25 full pass includes: - 6 classes - Tea Time and Afterparty - access to all classes for one week! Please note: payments made on July 5 may not be processed in time for the live classes, so please be sure to pay by July 4 if you are joining us in person so I can get you signed up 😊 See ticket link above to register! Stay tuned for more information and message me if you have any questions! Beijos e abracos, Sydney *********************** About the instructors: Sydney Schiff is a ballet-trained dancer, choreographer, teacher, and helpless lover of Brazilian Zouk and community building. After graduating from Princeton University and pursuing a career as a freelance modern dancer, choreographer, and company director in New York City, she spent two years in Ann Arbor pursuing a Master of Fine Arts in Dance at the University of Michigan. At the same time, she taught weekly community and university Zouk classes and DJ'd weekly socials. She began traveling to teach workshops, weekenders, and congresses while at Michigan and upon graduating in Apri1 2018, she embarked on a year-long tour throughout North America, Europe, and Brazil to teach and study Brazilian Zouk. She moved to Chicago in June 2019 where she began teaching weekly Zouk classes, developing her repertory as a solo zouk performer, directed a co-ed zouk performance team at Latin Street Music and Dancing, and most recently became the director of Evolución Latina Dance Company's first ladies Zouk performance team, all while maintaining a busy travel schedule. In October 2019 she began hosting and DJing Newport Zouk!, a program of twice-monthly classes and socials at The Newport Theater. In March 2020, she began teaching daily online solo-training classes to help keep the world dancing during a surreal global health crisis. When it is safe to do so, she will resume in-person programming and expand into weekly leveled classes as part of Newport Zouk University while continuing to offer online classes for the students who have been tuning in from around the world. Sydney draws on her diverse background in social dancing, somatic practices, and three decades of solo dancing to train the complete body, inspire endless creativity, and facilitate safe and pain-free connection and communication. She prepares progressive exercises and strives to maintain constant motion in her classes, empowering students to tap into their creativity and joy of motion. In addition to teaching Brazilian Zouk, she teaches Fusion workshops that focus on building skills applicable to all social dance forms as well as expanding students' toolkits with elements from Brazilian Zouk. In her solo-training daily online classes, she teaches Zouk foundations alongside head movement, styling, lambada, and yoga and gentle stretching for #RestorativeSundays, alongside diverse special topics workshops that draw on all of her Zouk and non-zouk dance experience. Want to keep track of the #ZoukGnome? Follow @sydney.zouks here and on Instagram and stay tuned for adventures, news, and event updates! Also be sure to check out www.sydneyzouks.com! ************************ Brigitte Wittmer, originally from Switzerland, moved to New York City to study various forms of dance at Broadway Dance Center. On her first trip to Brazil she fell in love with Brazilian Zouk and then started teaching all over Europe and Brazil. She earned her degree in Dance at the University "Faculdade Angel Vianna" in Rio de Janeiro, where she has immersed totally into the Brazilian Culture for the past 7 years. In her work she co-relates all her studies that include Contemporary Dance, Contact Improvisation, Yoga, Somatic Education, and the Brazilian Social Dances. Her approach on partner-dancing comes with a perspective called "Shared Leading". Everyone will learn how to lead & follow and how to change back-and-forth between proposing movements and surrendering. Establishing a body communication that will empower you to express yourself with someone else through dancing. She has been developing this technique during the past 4 years and has been invited to teach and speak about her research all over Brazil. You can find her thesis here: https://www.academia.edu/38406842/Partner_Dancing_A_proposal_for_a_dialogue In her class she will introduce you to the Brazilian joy of sharing life through dance with topics including: ★ Developing Sensibility -> Body Mind Soul Awareness ★ Moving Freely with Joy -> Movement Principles & Mechanics ★ Musicality ♬ ★ Partner Dance Fundamentals -> Connection & Technique ★ Brazilian Zouk Fundamentals -> Connection & Technique & Flow Videos https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dx0vSVHQ39I https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=R2iedjocydM Instagram: b_moving FB: www.fb.com/bwmoving Email: [email protected] **************************** Alanna and Tiffany have been teaching Brazilian Zouk and Therapeutics/Body Education classes together for 2 years. They live in Philadelphia where they organize the Zouk scene, teach regular classes, and bring in amazing artists for workshops and special events. Alanna has a background in studio dance, physical therapy, and massage therapy, pursuing all in higher education. Tiffany is a Psychotherapist in her 9-5, has trained internationally in Acro Yoga and and adds her experience with cheer, acrobatics and yoga. They use their combined experience to explain movement with approachability, clarity, and creativity.