Welcome Workshop
Prerequisites: Basic steps of forró.
Welcome Workshop open to all levels and all festival participants.

Carol and Wesley are forró teachers and dance partners with over 8 years of experience, with a well-established trajectory teaching classes and workshops in Brazil and across Europe. Leading the YouTube channel Lá Vai Forró, the couple has already impacted thousands of people through classes that combine technique, connection, and musicality.
Recognized for creating a light and welcoming atmosphere in their classes, they have developed their own methodology focused on fostering confidence, presence, and authenticity through dance. They see forró as a language of communication and expression, a way to connect with others and with one’s own essence.
Prerequisites: Basic steps of forró.
Welcome Workshop open to all levels and all festival participants.
Prerequisites: Students should be confident with the basic steps, have a good sense of rhythm, body awareness, and a good partner connection.
Learn how to listen more deeply to the music and translate it into movement.
Prerequisites: Bases 1 and 2, pião, sense of rhythm, and good partner connection.
Discover how to create variety within the same structure.
Prerequisites: Students should feel comfortable dancing in a closed embrace, keep the rhythm and know the basic step (base 1).
We'll explore how to maintain clear communication and body presence while moving between open and closed embrace.