Is Brazilian Zouk an Addiction? (S06 Ep10)

ZoukNerds • Learn | Build | Belong · Jul 1, 2026 · 33m

Is Brazilian Zouk an addiction? I think for a lot of us it is — and I say that as someone it nearly broke.

In this ZoukNerds episode my co-host Gui Prada and I talk about the body of the dancer. The strapped knee, the strapped shoulder, the wrist, the people massaging each other at every festival. That is the community telling on itself.

For 10 years I ate painkillers as if I was drinking water. I wasn't sleeping. Any lesson, any call, any hour — it was a yes. That burned me out, and in 2016 I quit dance for a whole year. What I came back understanding: it was never the dance. It was how I…