Forró Dance Classes

Name: Forró Dance Classes
Start: 2025-10-01T21:00:00+02:00
End: 2025-10-01T22:00:00+02:00
Location: ulica Żelazna 103A, 01-017 Wola, Polska

Schedule

Wed Oct 01 2025 at 09:00 pm to 10:00 pm

UTC+02:00

Location

ulica Żelazna 103A, 01-017 Wola, Polska | Warsaw, MZ

Ready to learn a fun and social dance from Brazil? Join Carolina Alves and Julia Mela (teaching assistant) for weekly beginner Forró classes. We'll teach from level 0, so no experience is needed. Just bring your curiosity and good vibes.
📅 From October 1st to December 3rd - 10 gatherings
🕘 Every Wednesday | 21:00–22:00
📍 Żelazna 103A, 01-017 Warszawa
Prices (pay in advance):
- 10 classes: 300 PLN
- 5 classes: 160 PLN
- Student price (under 26):
• 10 classes: 200 PLN
• 5 classes: 110 PLN
- First class: 20 PLN
- After the first class, the price for a single class is 35 PLN
Registration: https://forms.gle/MhLX5kRsBSx3a3Ym7
🎉To celebrate the start of the course, we’re hosting a Forró Social right after the first class on October 4th. Check out the event for more details: https://fb.me/e/63GRe0dks
What is Forró?
Forró is a music style and couple dance that originated in northeast Brazil, with its beginnings traced back to the 19th century. Forró music style is traditionally played on just three instruments: accordion, triangle, and zabumba (a type of drum that originated from Bantu peoples in Africa). The dance is based on two simple steps that can be danced to both slow and fast melodies, and it can vary depending on the several existing forró music styles. Forró was created for people to enjoy themselves at dance parties, so it’s joyful, vivid, and easy to learn. However, there are many increasingly advanced steps that incorporate elements from other dance styles, such as tango and samba, making forró a stimulating and interesting dance to learn as you progress. Still, the simplicity of the beginner and intermediate movements allows everyone to join the parties, which are still held in a very open and welcoming atmosphere.
Nowadays, forró dance has a huge community around the world. Besides Brazil, you can find and dance it all across Europe, especially in Portugal and Germany, where you can find communities in every major city. Here in Poland, people are dancing forró mainly in Kraków, Poznan, and Warsaw, where workshops with renowned teachers and parties with bands and DJs are often organized.
"Forró comes from cultural, musical and ethnic miscegenation, from the breaking of paradigms and from the intrinsic desire of human beings to fraternize, dance, sing and love." - from the book "What is Forró? A Small Collection of Forró history by Ivan Dias and Sandrinho Dupan (PT-BR: O que é o Forró? Um pequeno apanhado da história do Forró por Ivan Dias e Sandrinho Dupan)