Zouk.SB, 20 W Calle Laureles (2026)

10/02/2026

💝Valentine’s Day Party 💝

Are you looking for a new way to spend your Valentines? This could be a sweet date, a galentines evening out or a self love solo adventure to enjoy you being you amongst a loving community! 🙌

Come join us THIS Saturday for our first big Valentine’s Day Brazilian Zouk Party!

🗓️ February 14th
⏰ 6-10pm
📍Leslie Sack Dance Studio
20 W Calle Laureles Santa Barbara 93105
❤️ $25 for the whole night
Methods: Cash or Zelle preferred and also you can do Venmo or PayPal

✨Please come 5-10 minutes early so we can sign you in and you can get your dancing feet ready! DM me in advance to save your spot.

🩰 Socks, flats, ballet shoes, jazz shoes, dance shoes, tennis shoes, smooth soled shoes, (you can dance in heels, but it is very common to dance in flats and sneakers)

💖Full details 💖
6:00pm Katie’s Intro Lesson
7:00pm Andrew & Katie’s Mixed Level
8:00pm Demo
8-10pm Social dance

✨We know Valentine’s Day is full of many sweet treats and fun outtings so please note that you can come by at any point, and leave at any point. Come for one class or two or come for the whole evening! Already have dinner plans? Then come around 8 for a little demo, some sweet treats and enjoy the social until 10pm.

We want you to get a taste of what a Brazilian Zouk party feels like and also hope you can nourish yourself with community, connection and some extra compassion for yourself on this day of love! 💖

Let us put our focus and attention to tending for our own hearts and stoking our own internal fire with an upbeat, fun and joyous evening of partner dance 💃 🕺

See you this Saturday 6-10pm! DM me if you have any questions. 💝💐✨💖

08/02/2026

💖🎉💖 thank you to everyone who came for our most recent introductory workshop! It was such much fun to finish a two hour workshop with people saying “wait it is already don! That was two hours?!” I look forward to seeing you all in February for our big Valentine’s Day Party with special guest instructor from Utah! 👏Andrew Garcia

We worked with what it feels like to take movements we already know like walking, contra body moving and balance and applied those to our partner dance. We were able to create a bridge to the unknown and new by starting what is already known and familiar.

Now those new steps are becoming more known and familiar which is why they are called basics! Your basics become the most familiar step, they are what define the dance and they are what you always return to. The basics steps your home and we are excited to help you build a strong foundation for your home.

Next weekend we have a new opportunity for you to build new foundations, grow your basics into feeling more familiar and apply them to what social dancing is all about. We are coming together in community with a common language, to play and explore and have fun!!

Join us on February 14th for our Valentine’s Brazilian Zouk Party!

🗓️ February 14th
⏰ 6-10pm
📍Leslie Sack Dance Studio
20 W Calle Laureles Santa Barbara 93105
❤️ $25 for the whole night

23/01/2026

🎊New Year Introductory Workshop 🎊
💙💛💚Brazilian Zouk 💚💛💙

An opportunity to focus on the true elements of partner dance and learn the power of knowing your basics!

✨connection ✨frame ✨body awareness ✨posture ✨intention ✨flow ✨breath ✨alignment ✨timing

You will leave having foundations that will support you in all partner dances and an opportunity to learn what is uniquely the Brazilian Zouk flavor and what makes these Latin dances different from one another.

We will play a range of music and give you an opportunity to really feel the different vibes that are under the Brazilian Zouk umbrella. You may resonate more with traditional music, melodic pieces or remixes of your favorite songs. There is huge range of what Zouk can look and feel like! 🤗

By joining us this weekend you also get an introduction to our growing local Brazilian Zouk community. We create community by coming together and sharing in our energy, space and time. Kindness, compassion and playful energy are infused into every class which creates a safe and welcoming environment for us come together and share our authentic expression and co-create this community experience together. 🌸

Remember to be kind and gentle with yourself when starting something new! 🌱As a baby everyone cheers when you get your first steps, even when they are wobbly, or sideways. A step only becomes “basic” once it goes from unknown to known. So let’s step into the new and unknown together! 🎉Let’s celebrate each step and have compassion for the process of truly turning basics into basics. 🙌 We are so excited for you to literally get some of your first steps of Brazilian Zouk this weekend for our Intro Workshop!

- No dance experience necessary 👯‍♀️
- You do not need a partner 💃
- Yes you can dance in socks 🧦

P.S. 💌
We will have a Valentine’s Day Party with a special guest instructor 💕 on Feb 14th. There will be a class and a social. We would love to have you for both weekends! 👏

This Sunday’s Intro Workshop is the perfect time to build up some confidence, learn the basics and get your self grooving before our big evening party on Saturday Feb 14th for Valentine’s Day 💝

19/01/2026

Happy New Year from the Santa Barbara Brazilian Zouk Dance Community! We closed out 2025 softly and are ready to start of 2026 with a bang! Embracing the fire and speed that is quite different than the watery energy and theme of release that was 2025. When we release we create space for the new 💫 So are you ready to start off this 2026 year with something new?

🎉New Year 🎉
Intro Workshop
💙💛💚Brazilian Zouk 💚💛💙

Maybe you are new to partner dancing, maybe new to latin dance, maybe new to dance in general! What ever it may be, let us celebrate this New Year together and embrace the new and unknown 🎊🎉💛

🗓️ January 25th
⏰ 5:30-7:30
📍Leslie Sack Dance Studio
20 W Calle Laureles Santa Barbara 93105

$40 for the two hour workshop and start of your Brazilian Zouk Journey! Payments can be made via Cash, Zelle or Venmo. You can sign up in advance by sending over your payment, and then confirming you payment method as well as your first and last name and email via text to this number.

This will be an introductory class to give you an opportunity to see what Brazilian Zouk looks like, to feel the unique flavor that is this special style of latin dance, and to experience the fun and play that is connecting to yourself and others through partner dance!💃✨🕺

Danced with us before? It is always good to come back to the basics. The basics are your foundation and with a strong foundation you can grow in many more directions and reach new heights! 💚🌱🌳

All are welcome! What ever stage, phase and seasons of life you are in, we embrace you! 🤗
No dance experience necessary.

Please Bring shoes that are easy to glide with. Smooth souled shoes are best, and worn out sneakers work great as well! A jazz shoe , ballet shoe or low heeled dance shoe will also work. 👟💙🥿

15/12/2025

🎄✨Holiday Party Tonight! ✨🎄I am feeling immense gratitude for my time here in Utah and for for bringing me out to share some magic with the Utah community. What a fantastic way to close out the 2025 year! Come join us in celebration tonight for this special event, holiday potluck and party 🎉

23/07/2025

☀️ THIS Saturday ☀️

Brazilian 🇧🇷 Zouk
🌀Intro Workshop
✨July 26th 6-8pm
🎉$30 for two hours

Leslie Sack Dance Studio
20 W Calle Laureles,
Santa Barbara, CA 93101

☀️🌀✨🎉☀️🌀✨🎉☀️🌀✨🎉☀️

We are celebrating these beautiful long sunny 😎 summer days by having an evening workshop this month. So make sure to get in your sunshine time before we start at 6pm. We want you to bring your smiles and glow and some of that chill beach 🏖️ vibe and ocean 🌊 flow into the studio space as we come together to learn Brazilian 🇧🇷 Zouk.

In this workshop we will play with the elements, shapes and dynamics that set Brazilian Zouk apart from other partner dances 💃🕺. We will also give you a strong foundation for leading and following, which can be applied to all partner dances (and life😉!). *no partner necessary,
anyone can lead and anyone can follow.

Partner dance is a conversation and opportunity for expression. Leading and following can look like a call and response or feel like an offering or invitation and opportunity for acceptance or counter offer. We are encouraging deep listening and honoring of the unique experiences that each movement, song and dance partner reveals 🌀

Let us be playful, be silly, “mess up”, be in process, get uncomfortable, laugh together, be authentic and show up as we are. Partner dancing is the perfect place to remember that we all are beginners at some point and that no one is alone in these feelings or experiences that may arise.

✨Every moment is just another opportunity

Come take your first Zouk steps with us this Saturday at the Leslie Sack Dance Studio from 6-8pm and celebrate being you, as you are, in community, as we all grow into this dance and dance scene together! 🎉

🇧🇷

26/06/2025

Brazilian Zouk Intro Workshop
🌞THIS Sunday 🌞
June 29th 2-4pm
Leslie Sack Dance Studio

I am excited to be offering another Brazilian Zouk Introductory Workshop! This one is an Intro 1 Workshop meaning it is best for brand new beginners, who want to get exposure to basic concepts about partner dance, the foundation of how to move with connection to our selves and others as well as the unique flavor that is Brazilian Zouk!

Summer time ⛱️ is a great time to get out of your comfort zone, play with the elements and meet new people.

What you need? Some willingness, wonderment and excitement to open yourself up to a new experience and come join us on the dance floor! (It does help if you also bring some smooth souled shoes, tennis shoes 👟 or socks as well)

You do not need a partner as we will be rotating and changing partners. This actually helps better prepare you for social dancing as everyone’s bodies and unique experiences creates different styles and unique flavors within the foundational steps.

What is Social Dance? It is an opportunity for people to come together in community and share the common language of dance as a way to share and express. We get to practice how to listen, how to lead, how to follow, and what our body wisdom has to share with us. A social dance scene is where we can play, and move our bodies all while have fun together in a safe and joyful setting AND on a really fantastic professional dance floor!

I love Brazilian Zouk because I feel like it is more of a “choose your own adventure” type of partner dance. We dance to Brazilian Zouk music, and also there a many parties where they also play more lyrical, contemporary and RnB music as well.

Introductory classes and beginner workshops provide you with an opportunity to taste test the vibe, feel out the specific dance style, bring your friends out to try something new and leave with newfound skills that can be applied to all aspects of life! ☀️ See you this Sunday! DM me to register for your spot in advance.

13/04/2025

🌸This Sunday, April 13th at 5:30pm 🌸
Come and join us for our Introductory Brazilian Zouk Workshop!

💐Spring into Spring 💐

Location is at the wonderful Lelsie Sack Dance Studio. What ever your level, experience, background, stage, or phase of life you are in you are welcome to join. Come ready to feel into and play with the nature of flow and elasticity and breath as we plant the seed of what it means to be a Brazilian Zouk Dancer. Please ask me any questions you have about partner dance and what it means to take part in social dancing. It is a gift to be a part of this wonderful growing global dance scene. 🌱 🇧🇷

No previous dance experience necessary. You do not need to bring a partner unless you desire to.

You do not need specific dance shoes but if you already have them please feel free to bring thm. Less slippery socks, jazz shoes, dance shoes, 🩰 ballet slippers,or smooth-souls/suede-souls shoes are best. If you have vans, or more smooth bottomed (or worn out) tennis shoes 👟 will work as well. Please message me if you have any questions.

DM me to let me know you are interested in joining for this workshop or if you want to know about future workshops in the future.

I look forward to dancing into this NOW moment with you and celebrating the seasons change! I have immense gratitude and appreciation for all the students who have been coming weekly to classes and are supporting the growth of our local Brazilian Zouk social dance scene. 🌱

See you tomorrow 👏🙏✨

03/02/2025

Brand NEW Intro Series starts ToDaY 🙌
This four week series is an introduction to Brazilian Zouk. With this series you gain foundational elements of lead and follow, which carry over to all styles of dance. February is the season of connection, of love and relating. We are all always in some form of relationship whether that be to ourselves, another, a profession, or our creative expression. Come play in the creativity of relating through partner dance with us today 🌹💃✨🌷🌸🌷✨💃🌹

🌷February Four Week Intro Series 🌷
Brazilian Zouk 💚💛💙

🙌 We will be starting THIS Monday, February 3rd at 6:30pm ✨

🗓️Dates: Feb 3rd, 10th, 17th, 24th
🕥 Times: 6:30-7:30pm
📍Location:
Leslie Sack Dance Studio
20 W Calle Laureles, SB 93105

Drop in rate is $25 per class or you can sign up for a package rate of $80 for all four. Payments can be made via cash, venmo and Zelle. Zelle and cash preferred. You can DM or text me in advance to confirm your spot. No partner or dance shoes necessary. Less slippery socks, jazz shoes, ballet slippers,or smooth-souls/suede-souls shoes are best. If you have vans, or more smooth bottomed tennis shoes those work as well. Please message me if you have any questions.

I look forward to grooving and growing with you as we dance Brazilian Zouk together. It’s the perfect season to start dancing 👏 ❤️💃🕺

03/12/2024

Looks like we already have that special ✨ holiday cheer happening over here! 🙌

This is a great time of year to focus on what brings you joy, have gratitude for the simple things and gather in celebration of endings, beginnings, transition and transformations. As fall becomes winter ❄️ it is a time to reflect and bring our focus back to what matters most.

I am grateful this community has become such a safe space for people to feel they can show up as they are, genuine, authentic, honest and real in what ever season of life they are currently experiencing. Brazilian Zouk is such a beautiful way to come together and experience how we can be expressive in our own unique and individual ways. As we move through time and space together we share more of who we are and how we uniquely move in our energies through space and time. It has been such a gift to witness and experience, the truth in the saying “ it takes a village”. It truly does take a village. There is only a teacher if there is a student who is inquiring for answers or assistance.

Everyone who comes to class contributes their own special flavor and essence which makes every class a unique experience that has never happened before and will never happen again. I am in immense gratitude for everyone who has become a part of this.

I feel very excited to cultivate more opportunities for these experiences and for more genuine deep and heartfelt connections as we continue growing this Santa Barbara Brazilian Zouk dance scene. Let’s close out this year with the heart and love .sb was born into and set our sights to ever more expanding opportunities to share in this beautiful experience and global community of Brazilian Zouk.

❄️⛄️December ⛄️❄️
Monday Mini Series
Dates: Dec 2nd & 16th
Time: 7-8pm
Loc: Leslie Sack Dance Studio
20 w Calle Laureles Santa Barbara
Cost: $40 for both or $25 for drop in

14/11/2024

Pop Up Brazilian Zouk class TODAY at 5:30pm ! 🌸🌷🐝🍯

🍂🍯🍁November Pop-Up

🍂 Brazilian Zouk Intro Class 🍂

🗓️Date of Nov 14th
🕥 Starting at 5:30 pm
📍Location: Wylde Works
609 State St,
Santa Barbara, CA 93101

What is Brazilian Zouk?
✨ A partner dance, a social dance, a Latin dance, a growing global dance, an expressive dance
✨ A dance of breath, flow, & fun
✨ A joyous way to come together and celebrate connection and community

The class will go for an hour starting promptly at 5:30. No partner necessary, although the more friends you bring the merrier! The rate for the pop-up class is $20. Payments can be made via cash, venmo and Zelle. Be sure to be on time and bring your dancing shoes! (Shoes that can slide easily or socks you don’t mind getting a little dirty are great options)

Wylde Works is a great location for us to gather and celebrate this change of season! 🍂🍯🍁 Please come hang out before and after, drink some honey harvested products, meet new friends, enjoy in sharing a new experience together. Brand new/ beginner movers and dancers welcome, all ages and all stages. Let’s have some fun coming together for an evening out as a way to bring some warmth and energy to these cooling fall evenings.

DM the Santa Barbara Brazilian Zouk insta .SB to save your spot or ask any questions you may have abut this event, future events, weekly classes or just the dance style in general. ✨💃🕺✨

Can’t make this pop-up event, but wanting to know more? Follow .SB on insta for updates and message Katie to learn more about current classes happening Mondays and Wednesdays as well as the start of the next intro series. 💚💛💙

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