Discover Drill Dance - Social Dancing Boost Edition

💜 DISCOVER, DRILL, DANCE IS BACK 💜

This time: SOCIAL DANCING BOOST EDITION

This edition will focus on two things:

Friday & Saturday: Boosting your creativity on the social dance floor

Sunday: Teacher Training — Beyond the Repertoire with Julinha

With over 10 years of experience teaching regular classes and more than 8 hours of classes per week while building a community, I have noticed one thing again and again: we do not always need to learn the newest movement.

Very often, what actually helps us become better social dancers is learning how to use, adapt and explore what we already have — and that is exactly what this edition will be about:

•⁠ ⁠Getting creative and playful with the basics

•⁠ ⁠Inverting movements — even complex ones — into different directions

•⁠ ⁠Playing with the positioning between leader and follower

•⁠ ⁠Exploring movements both on and off axis

•⁠ ⁠Training precise technique and clean transitions for both leaders and followers

✨ FRIDAY

21:00–22:00

ALL LEVELS: PLAYING WITH THE AXIS with Rogerio & Julinha

We will explore fun one-footed spins and counterbalances that you can actually use in your social dancing — accessible enough to play with immediately, but full of possibilities for more experienced dancers too.

22:00 SOCIAL

✨ SATURDAY

12:30–14:30 (Tanzraum Nippes) ADVANCED INTENSIVE (Level 4+)

INVERSION CRAZINESS with Rogerio & Julinha

Rogerio & Julinha both love taking complex movements apart and understanding exactly what makes them work.

So what better way to challenge your technique AND double your social repertoire than taking movements we already love — Toalhas, Rotisseries, Tilted Turns and more — and inverting them to the other side? 🤯

Expect detailed technique, plenty of brain gymnastics and a lot of “wait… why does this suddenly work?!”

This Intensive is Level 4+.

If you are not currently a ZoukCologne Level 4 dancer, please contact Julinha beforehand for a level assessment.

15:00–17:00 (Tanzraum Nippes) INTERMEDIATE INTENSIVE (Level 2/3)

BOOST YOUR SOCIAL CREATIVITY with Gui & Judith

Gui & Judith are exceptionally good at helping dancers turn familiar basics into something playful, musical and creative.

For this Intensive, you should already know all Level 1 basics.

From there, they will show you how to transform those foundations into yummy social-dance possibilities — changing directions, timing, context and intention without needing increasingly complicated movements.

The goal: becoming a more creative social dancer using material you already have in your body.

20:00–21:00  (Tanzraum Zentrum)

ALL LEVELS GOSTOSINHO VARIATIONS with Gui & Judith

Gostosinho in all its forms, shapes and directions for maximum social-dance fun.

Different entries, different orientations, different possibilities — and yes, hello shadow position. 😏

21:00 (Tanzraum Zentrum) SOCIAL 

✨ SUNDAY

14:00–17:00 (Tanzraum Nippes) TEACHER TRAINING with Julinha: Beyond the Repertoire

The tanzraum Teacher Team can join the 3h Teacher Training free of charge. The Advanced Intensive and Socials are not included in this option, please buy these passes separately.

Discover, Drill, Dance was created with one goal: to help you actually bring workshop material into your social dancing.

Instead of collecting endless combinations and forgetting them the next day, we want you to understand the technique, practise it properly, receive individual feedback — and then take it straight onto the dance floor.

💜 DISCOVER

Dive deeper into skills, concepts and techniques in our 2h Intensives.

💜 DRILL

Each Intensive includes 30 minutes of guided practice, giving you time to repeat, explore and receive individual feedback from your teachers.

💜 DANCE

Then we dance through the night, test everything in our socials and simply have fun together.

✨ THE ARTISTS

JULINHA

Brazilian Zouk, Lambada & BachaZouk dancer and teacher, ZoukCologne Headteacher and Community Founder.

Julinha has been teaching Brazilian Zouk regularly since 2015 and today works together with a team of around 10 teachers at ZoukCologne. Alongside teaching weekly in Cologne, she has been travelling internationally for several years, teaching across Europe, Asia, North America and South America.

ROGERIO

Samba de Gafieira & Brazilian Zouk dancer and teacher from São Paulo.

His background in different Brazilian partner dances brings another perspective on axis, connection, movement possibilities and playful partner interaction.

GUI 

Dança de Salão, Brazilian Zouk & Lambada dancer and teacher from São Paulo.

JUDITH

Bachata, Brazilian Zouk & Lambada dancer and teacher from Madrid.

Together, Gui & Judith have a special talent for getting students from “I know the basic” to actually having fun and playing with it socially — sometimes within only a couple of hours.

💜 NEW: MODULAR SYSTEM

You decide exactly how much you want to train.

Want to take it light? Join only one of our pre-party All Levels classes and stay for the Social.

Want to focus on one specific topic? Choose just one Intensive.

Want the full training experience? Join everything and save money with the Fullpass.

The idea is simple: choose what fits your level, your interests and your energy.

🎟️ PRICES

FULLPASS INTERMEDIATE

75€ regular / 65€ tanzraum members

Includes:

▪️ All Pre-Party Workshops

▪️ Intermediate Intensive

▪️ All Socials

FULLPASS ADVANCED

90€ regular / 80€ tanzraum members

Includes:

▪️ Friday Pre-Party Workshop

▪️ Advanced Intensive

▪️ Intermediate Intensive

▪️ Saturday Pre-Party Workshop

▪️ All Socials

Advanced Intensive requires Level 4 or prior level approval by Julinha.

SATURDAY INTENSIVE PASS

70€ regular / 60€ tanzraum members

Includes:

▪️ Advanced Intensive (Advanced level approval required for the Advanced Intensive)

▪️ Intermediate Intensive

SINGLE INTENSIVE

35€ regular / 25€ tanzraum members

Choose either:

▪️ Advanced Intensive (Level 4 or prior level approval required by Julinha)

or

▪️ Intermediate Intensive

FRIDAY EVENING PASS

25€ regular / 20€ tanzraum members

Includes:

▪️ Playing with the Axis Pre-Party Workshop

▪️ Friday Social

SATURDAY EVENING PASS

25€ regular / 20€ tanzraum members

Includes:

▪️ Gostosinho Variations Pre-Party Workshop

▪️ Saturday Social

SOCIAL ONLY - 15€

🎓 TEACHER TRAINING

150€ regular 

Includes:

▪️ 3h Teacher Training

▪️ Advanced Intensive

▪️ All Socials

The tanzraum Teacher Team can join the Teacher Training free of charge. The Advanced Intensive is not included in this option.

ℹ️ LEVEL INFO

- Everyone is welcome to join the All Levels workshops and the Intermediate Intensive.

- For the Intermediate Intensive, you should already know all Level 1 basics.

- The Advanced Intensive is aimed at Level 4+ dancers and requires prior approval by Julinha if you are not currently a ZoukCologne Level 4 dancer. Advanced dancers are of course also very welcome to join the Intermediate Intensive and all All Levels workshops.