3 years ago Braz Dos Santos Lambazouk pulled Joel Beall aside, starred him in the eyes and told him he needed to go back to California and help grow zouk. Soon after, back in California, Joel caught me off guard, sat me down with the same stare and told me he needed me to assist in any way I could back in LA. I would later convince LA we needed a big event to give awareness so I found the Queen Mary and decided we needed to crowdfund the first event to give it energy and tell the story. In three days after it launched, our campaign succeeded and LA Zouk Congress would be the first Zouk festival/congress in the US. Since then I’ve discovered true what Junyan Boon as recently told me, “congresses/festivals don’t grow the community.” In the two years since we’ve had the event zouk hasn’t really grown here in LA. If anything some will tell you it died. A few months ago, I decided there needed to be change. I could probably spend an hour writing this post and talking about the strategy and how I’ll be taking all the things I’ve learned in business and entrepreneurship to help build the roadmap. But I’ll keep it simple. Bottomline, I’m focused on the best for our community and growing it. This is a long term effort as I already have things planned out for the next two years. Zouk Beach Week was essentially the kickoff. I’m working together with the Kizomba community (aka Kizouk!) and my partner Ivo Vieira on this effort. Thanks for the support and let’s have some fun while we’re at it! Special thanks to the teachers this past weekend! Thanks for helping our LA/west coast students learn and enjoy the zouk experience! Kim Rottier Ryan Wong Mea-Lynn Wong Igor Fraga Rú Vasquez Full Aline Cleto Berta Bear Joseal De la Torre Jefferson Dadinho Shani Mayer Leo Bruno Xtine Zouk Lena Thieme Lamonte Tales Goode Adrian Dimech Kendra Haynes Henri Velandia Claudia Palestini Sarah Zuccaro
Posted on: Tue, 19 Aug 2014 21:45:45 +0000
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