Kimberly Loo (Honolulu Zouk)

Kimberly Loo wants us less living in our heads, more living in our hearts. Let dance be an experience of consensual touch at once nourishing and welcome. Kimberly strives to create an environment in which comfort is prioritized, and everyone feels respected within their boundaries and safe enough to experiment with moving fluidly through some of their usual inhibitions. What are we to others, but the way we make them feel? What are our bodies in this wordless dance, but transmitters of love? To dance zouk all ways, we embrace a stranger’s soul for five minutes, float alongside them with our best energy, then float off untethered to our next partner. Like two iridescent soap bubbles flying through the air together, sharing a wall, intention locked on each other, completely transparent to any who care to observe, but uncaring, giving the full spectrum of ourselves before separating.

Kimberly founded Honolulu Zouk in 2015 to host a dance community around socials, technique classes, choreographies, and visiting guest instructors. Kimberly holds a Bachelor's degree in Dance with a Performance and Choreography emphasis, and BAs in Anthropology and English Literature, from Pomona College. Her training began on her home island of Kaua’i with Royal Ballet Academy and Drill Team Hawaii. A few of Kimberly’s most influential Brazilian zouk teachers include Ry’El (ZenZouk) & Jessica, Evelyn & Derrick, Jaime Aroxa, Lui & Larissa, The Ramalhos, and Leandro & Nayara. In a past dance life, she’s won two collegiate national championships in ballroom dance, and was the Hawaii state champion and a World Latin Dance Cup semifinalist in salsa on2. Kimberly has taught and performed throughout the Hawaiian islands, Japan, Canada, Mexico, India, and the US mainland. She’s danced and taught locally with Legends in Concert, IONA Contemporary Dance Theatre, Ballet Hawaii, Salsa in Hawaii, Leviathan Dance, The Men’s Team, Sininho Samba, Epica Latin Dance Co, Dancers Unlimited, Showtime Entertainment, Pretty Peacock Productions, Cherry Blossom Cabaret, Honolulu Dance Collection, Polearity, and The Aphrodisiacs. Besides social dances and solo dances of all types, Kimberly also enjoys aerial arts, soft acrobatics, plants, art, longboarding Waikiki, psychology, spirituality, audiobooks, handstands, and hugs.

About Honolulu Zouk

Honolulu Zouk offers progressive social dance training courses on Tuesdays and Thursdays, a weekly Thursday practica, 1st and 3rd Saturday zouk socials, performance opportunities, drop in technique classes, private lessons, workshops and weekenders with renowned international instructors several times per year, and our largest annual event, the Honolulu Zouk Half Marathon. Please contact honoluluzouk@gmail.com and come join us!

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