How to Build a Dancer From the Floor Up

ZoukNerds • Learn | Build | Belong · Oct 7, 2026 · 51m

We put two people on the floor at a Brazilian Zouk teacher training and asked the room one question. These two are complete beginners, what do you fix first?

Somebody said the timing, somebody said the posture, and then somebody said the torsion, so I had to stop everyone. "Hold on, slow down, torsion, who is that?" Like, is it food? At that point that word does not exist yet.

If you've ever been told to fix your posture with no idea what that meant, this one is for teachers and for dancers who feel stuck.

So Gui and I went through the two frameworks we use. The Correction Ladder is the order…