Zouking by the Water - Gui & Valeska - Deixa by Lagum

One more video from 2018 =) Below the original text I posted this video with on Facebook: I still remember the year when everything changed for me when it comes to social dancing. In 2009, after two years understanding and investigating the roles that comfort, softness and care take on the dancefloor, I traveled to Buenos Aires for the first time. I wanted to go to the land of Tango to figure out the science behind close embrace and how they managed to keep their upper bodies so calm and relaxed while the legs were going crazy. It didn’t take long to first Argentine partner was a short, old and cute lady, with white hair and glasses with a thick black frame. When she hugged me, I had my first epiphany and suddenly it all made sense to me. We then did the pattern of the class, the “giro“ (spin), a pattern that people from my classes and team in Rio struggled to do, the lady did as if we were stepping in clouds without losing an inch of the contact we created with the embrac