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Dance styles explained
Salsa is not just salsa, and bachata is not just bachata: most dances come in several styles with their own timing, music and feel. Here is what the style names in the course listings actually mean — so you pick the course that really fits you.
Kizomba comes from Angola and is danced in a close embrace with small, gliding steps. The styles differ mainly in music, tempo and how linear the movement is.
ClassicKizomba ClassicThe Angolan original: calm, close, small gliding steps to classic kizomba music.
Traditional kizomba as danced in Angola: close embrace, relaxed and grounded walking, soft hip movement and lots of musicality. Danced to classic kizomba music. The base for every other style — and the best place to start.
SembaSembaThe joyful, faster ancestor of kizomba — playful, with tricks and humour.
Semba is the traditional Angolan dance kizomba grew out of: faster, more open and playful, with kicks, tricks and jumps to lively music. Dancers who know semba dance kizomba with far more expression.
TarraxinhaTarraxinha / TarraxoKizomba's slow, close "hip language": hardly any steps, all isolations and musicality.
Tarraxinha (also tarraxo or tarraxa) comes from Angola and is danced almost on the spot to slow, bass-heavy beats: minimal steps, but precise hip and pelvis isolations led by the leader. Very close and intimate — usually taught as a class of its own next to kizomba.
Urban KizUrban KizThe modern, linear version from Paris — cleaner lines, more figures, often to remixes and ghetto zouk.
Created in Paris in the 2010s: Urban Kiz is danced more linear and upright, with distinct changes of direction, stops and figures, often to remixes and ghetto-zouk beats. Looks "sharper" than Classic; purists consider it a dance of its own. Popular with younger dancers.