Rio Zouk 30 Day Immersion Course 2025
Date: June 8th - July 8th 2025
Location: Copacabana, Rio de Janeiro, Brasil.
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COURSE HIGHLIGHTS
Embrace this exceptional package! Secure your spot for the ultimate experience.
- Unique: 80 hrs. Zouk training in English (valued $4800 USD).
- 40 hrs. Portuguese classes with certified prof.
- Intimate Zouk classes: 10 leads/10 follows per group (max).
- Bilingual student host for your course.
- 30-day shared penthouse stay near Copacabana beach.
- Brazilian breakfast (5 days/week): local fruits, avocado, eggs, bread, cheese, meats, coffee & juices.
- Daily in-house Brazilian lunch by Private Chef (Mon-Fri), delivered before language classes.
- Exclusive performance opportunities.
- Unique team experience unlike any other.
- Jack & Jill Competition Bootcamp.
- Dance better with our full immersion quality training.
- Weekly in-house laundry service.
- House cleaning (weekly) by staff.
- Beachside Capoeira Workshop and Roda with Mestra Thaiane Olivera.
Rio Zouk Immersion offers intense training, daily Brazilian food by our chef, and Portuguese lessons to aid in forming local connections.
All dance levels are welcome! You will be at home in our leveled program.
Dance on stage in Rio during our (optional) group performance!
Limited spots for 2024 Rio Zouk Immersion.
What’s included in the price
- 80 hrs Zouk dance training in English (valued at $4800 USD).
- Bilingual student host throughout.
- Full 30-day stay in shared, secure Copacabana penthouse.
- 5x healthy Brazilian breakfasts (Mon-Fri).
- 5x in-house Brazilian lunch by Private Chef (Mon-Fri).
- 40hrs Portuguese classes with certified prof.
- Exclusive team performance opportunity.
- Weekly laundry and weekly house cleaning.
- Capoeira workshop with Maestra Thaiane Oliveira.
- A bi-lingual student host for the duration of your course
- Full 30 day stay in penthouse apartment “SHARED” safe accommodations near the beach in Copacabana.
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Healthy Brazilian breakfast 5 days a week.
(Variety of local fruits, avocado, eggs, bread, cheese, meats, coffee & juices) - Brazilian lunch is made daily in-house by our Private Chef, Monday – Friday for 4 weeks and delivered to the studio for us right before our language classes begin.
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We are the only program that offers 80 hrs. Zouk training classes all in one place in English
(Classes in English in Brazil valued at $4800 USD)
- 20 hrs. Portuguese language classes taught by a certified language professor.
- Performance opportunities that you can not buy with any amount of money!
- Laundry service once weekly, done in house for your comfort.
- House cleaning services provided once weekly by our staff.
- Beachside Capoeira Workshop and Roda with Mestra Thaiane Olivera.
What’s NOT included in the price
- Private Lessons
- Weekend / Activities
- Cultural Events
- Sightseeing
- Dinners
- Renata's Zouk in Rio Festival
- Airfare (required)
- Medical Insurance (required)
No matter your dance level, our course caters to all, offering personalized training that matches your expertise.
There isn’t another month-long Latin dance & cultural retreat like this; Rio Zouk Immersion is an unparalleled opportunity to connect with like-minded artists and dancers, creating memories that go beyond words.
Limited Spots so APPLY NOW...
We have limited spots available for the 2024 Rio Zouk Immersion Course.
Secure your place in this limited space, life-changing program!
Be a part of a “Once in a lifetime experience”
“If you want to learn a dance you need to understand the BODY of the people. why they hold and move their BODY that way is a reflection of their CULTURE. To know the culture is to know the Dance.”
Jaime Aroxa
“To dance is to live, to live well we must balance reason and emotion, to be a great dancer is to express emotion through all of the techniques that you use”
Renata Pecanha
Performance
International performance opportunity at “Zouk in Rio” Festival
- Personalized Choreography (our groups choreography creation and training will be done by the Queen herself Renata Pecanha, and Jorge Peres.
- Created just for us with our group’s growth and enjoyment as the goal.
- Get a peek inside the mind of Brazil’s top Choreographers
- Perform on stage in Brazil trained by professionals zouk in Brazil
- See performance art in a new light rarely taught outside of Rio.
- Reach a new level of comfort, skill & expression in dance performance training.
- This performance opportunity is completely optional and voluntary.
Casa in Copa
Checkout our beautiful accommodations in Copacabana where we will stay with our international tribe of dancers!
Cultural Activities
Visit some of Rio de Janeiro’s most famous attractions
as we set out to see the city each Saturday!
Fill out an application
Make sure you fill out an application before you buy your ticket.
We’re excited to get to know you and embark on this adventure of a lifetime!
Next, buy your tickets
Buy your tickets through our Eventbrite portal 🙂
Let us know if you have any questions.
It’s getting real!
Get prepared for travel
Make sure you have a valid passport (valid at least until Jan. 22, 2025) and research your country’s visa requirements.
Brazil currently has visa-free entry to any residents of the U.S., Canada, Australia, and Japan.
Make flight arrangements
After securing a flight, reach out to us so we can prepare your new home away from home – a penthouse apartment overlooking Copacabana beach.
Get excited, life will never be the same! International travel & cultural exchange changes lives.