Caroline is someone who believes that everyone can dance, and therefore all her dance classes are inclusive classes where everyone is made to feel welcome. She offers classes and workshops in Brazilian Zouk, Bachata, Zouk Ladystyling, Bachata Ladystyling, partner improvisation, high heels, contemporary, modern floorwork, alignment & placement, ballet, jazz, and improvisation for adults.
Caroline graduated in 2018 with Bachelor degree in teaching dance at the AHK (Bachelor of Arts in Education - Dance). In 2014 she founded Zouk in Copenhagen. In 2016, she started her own dance school, Inflow (previously Zonen for dans & bevægelse), also based in Copenhagen.
Her vision is to create an inclusive, welcoming space where everyone can join and enjoy the benefits of dance and movement.
Caroline took her first dance lessons in the UK at the age of five, where she joined the Royal Academy of Dance program in classical ballet, which she continued until the age of fourteen. In her adolescence, Caroline also joined a gymnastics team and competed in local and regional gymnastics competitions.
In 2012, Caroline started dancing Salsa, Bachata, and Brazilian Zouk. By September 2013 she began teaching Zouk Lambada and Rio Zouk with Nicolas Nelson in Copenhagen. They have also given workshops in Lambazouk and performed at the Berlin International Zouk & Samba Congress, June 2014.
In 2013, Caroline was admitted to Sceneindgangen Dance Studio‘s one-year preparatory dance program, specializing in modern dance. She graduated in May 2014, and then continued her studies at the Amsterdam School of the Arts (AHK), where she graduated in 2018 with a Bachelor of Arts in Education (Dance).
From 2018 to 2019 she also took a Barre education at the yoga & pilates studio Senses in Copenhagen, and taught regular barre classes.
From 2019 to 2020 she was living in Amsterdam, where she taught Barre classes at Studio191 and Zouk classes at Mirror Centre. When she came back to Denmark, she taught barre and reformer pilates at Senses, barre and dance classes at YoStudio, and yoga classes at Joga.
Now she spends her time teaching at and running her dance school in Copenhagen, Denmark, Inflow and traveling to teach for weekenders and congresses.
Caroline also organizes and teachers at intensives and festivals, like Rio Zouk Holiday, ZoukMX, and Maui Zouk Bubble with Joe Sandoval.
Vision
Caroline wants to create a safe space for people to explore and learn about themselves and each other through dance. Dance is for her a way of expression, a way of communication, and a way to meditate and find a sense of calm in a busy world. She believes that dance has something to offer for everyone. For children, teens, adults and elderly. For those who have never danced before and those with years of experience. For those with fully functioning bodies and minds, and those with injuries, handicaps, and illnesses. It is much more than exercise, but with all the benefits of exercise. Dance trains coordination, strength, flexibility, agility, balance, kinesthesia, body language, physical communication, and physical interaction. It teaches life skills, such as self-confidence, respect, tolerance, patience, and courage. It teaches us how to interact with one another in a valuable way, and how to gives us a safe place to meet and interact with new people.
Caroline & Brazilian Zouk
Caroline fell in love with Brazilian Zouk the moment she saw it at a Salsa & Kizomba social at Bar7 in Copenhagen. The flow, the connection, the energy and sensuality of the dance was immediately appealing to her. She knew instantly that she had to learn it. She trained intensively with Nicolas Nelson, who taught her the basics of Zouk Lambada. When she moved to Amsterdam, she took classes, workshops and privates with as many teachers as possible, learning about the different styles and ways of dancing Zouk and carefully studying the similarities and differences. She started teaching Zouk in Copenhagen in 2014.
Caroline has given Zouk workshops at Berlin Zouk Congress, Amsterdam Zouk Congress, Valentine’s Dance Weekend in Halmstad, Copenhagen Kizomba Royal Festival, Helsingborg Brazilian Zouk Weekend, Copenhagen Salsa Festival, Crazy Lion BachaKiz, and Copenhagen Bachata Festival, Dutch Zouk, and in 2021 she will teach at Alianca Zouk, Ilha do Zouk, Canada Zouk Congress and Cologne Zouk Festival.
She has also taken the Zouk teacher's courses at Dutch Zouk Congress, ZoukDevils, at Rio Zouk Congress, and at ZoukMx., and taught and organized at the teacher's course at ZoukMX.
Together with Fabricio Duraes, she has written an ebook on Brazilian Zouk.
