The Pickiness Curve Every Dancer Climbs

ZoukNerds • Learn | Build | Belong · Aug 26, 2026 · 50m

For years the DJ would put on traditional old school Brazilian Zouk and I'd walk off the floor. "Ah, I don't like that type of music, I'm gonna take a break." That was a lie. I didn't have the skills to enjoy it yet, and the day I learned them I loved it.

So when Gui tells me he got so picky only two or three followers could give him a good dance, down to where their head sat against his, I know that feeling.

He worked it out on the bus home from a social in Rio, where he realised he'd danced all night without being present once, because he spent the whole thing hunting those two or three…