Kizomba, Tarraxinha, Semba, Afro Dances

Kizomba Mani provides:

• Workshops
• Dance Classes
• Bootcamps
• Private lessons
• Social dance events
• Parties

Highlights of What you learn during our workshops, dance courses or Bootcamps:
Master your basics is a recurring pattern in our lessons, explaining the Kizomba different dance influences in the dancescene. We give group and individual attention and combine this Knowledge and learned skills to a challenge by using what we call “Kizombaxe and Kizomba de Rueda”.

Classes levels:

Beginner’s levels:
Learn Kizomba basics in 6 hours

• Learning and understanding the basic elements of Kizomba
• framing and dancing positions

Improvers:
intermediate and advanced

• How to use the basics to create movements
• Leading and following technics
• Musicality
• show performance

Advice on completion of dance season:
We have a view level group. You will be invited by us to move on to another level if we think you are ready. You will not automatically join a next level after completing of one course. The course material per level is adjusted in every dance season so you will continue to evolve within one level and get new elements taught. In this way we can continue to deliver our guarantee of quality in teaching.

Kizomba

Kizomba is one of the most popular genres of dance and music originating in Angola. It mixes the traditional Semba music and Zouk music from the French Caribbean Islands.
On this basis, Kizomba music emerged as a more modern music genre with a sensual touch mixed with African rhythm. Unlike Semba, Kizomba music is characterised by a slower and usually very romantic rhythm, sung generally in Portuguese

Tarraxinha

The name means “little screw in a bolt”. And Danced on the spot, Tarraxinha has very little in the way of steps and is focused on isolations and two bodies moving as one. A class in social Tarraxinha or Tarraxinha styling can be quite helpful. Tarraxinha movement is also a fantastic asset to girls who want to impress at the club, or want to show off for their significant others.

Semba

Semba is an Angolan ballroom dance. Danced in couples and in open position, it has very distinctive steps from the gentleman, followed by the ladies in very large steps, where the juggling and acrobacy of the gentleman counts very much for the level of improvisation. Semba characterizes itself as a dance of “passadas” .
Semba soorten: Social,Show, Cadensial

Kuduro

Kuduro (or kuduru) is a type of music and dance originally developed in Angola in the 1980s. It is characterized as uptempo, energetic, and danceable. Kuduro began in Luanda, Angola in the late 1980s. Initially, producers sampled traditional carnival music like soca and zouk from the Caribbean, and also semba from Angola and laid this around a fast 4/4 beat.
The kuduro is similar to the Kizomba rhythm. The lyrics are in Portuguese.