Samba Classes

💃🏽🔥Feel the rhythm, bring the energy, and samba with us! 🇧🇷✨

Join us at Tavern Blue in Coralville for an exciting 5-class Samba Lesson hosted by Tavern Blue! Whether you're a beginner or already love to dance, come learn, move, and have a great time. 🎶🕺🏽

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📅 SAVE THE DATES: • Wednesday, October 14, 2026 • Wednesday, October 21, 2026 • Wednesday, October 28, 2026 • Wednesday, November 4, 2026 • Wednesday, November 11, 2026

📍 Tavern Blue | 805 2nd St., Coralville, IA ⏰ 7:00PM 🎉 Good vibes, great music & plenty of dancing! 🎟

WHAT IS SAMBA DE GAFIEIRA? Imagine stepping into a warm, crowded gafieira in Rio de Janeiro — the music is alive, the floor is warm, and two bodies are having a conversation without words. Samba de Gafieira is not steps on a page. It is ginga, forca, alegria — the sway, the force, the joy of moving together. Born from the meeting of Afro-Brazilian rhythm and the elegance of the ballroom, it is playful, sophisticated, and deeply human. This is social, alive, and waiting for you. WHAT WE WILL DANCE The essential and colorful vocabulary of dance steps adjust accordingly from Beginning to Advanced level Beginners: The essentials of posture, connection, and the basic walking steps that give samba its soul. You will leave your first class already moving with ginga.

Intermediate: Expanding your vocabulary, enhancing your musicality, and finding more joy in the playful conversation between lead and follow.

Advanced: Complex turns, improvisation, and the joyful art of truly dancing together — where two bodies and one rhythm become inseparable.

WHY YOU WILL LOVE IT ✦ No partner? No problem. Come solo or bring a friend! ✦ Learn from a Brazilian who has lived this dance his whole life ✦ Lead-and-follow skills that open every social dance door ✦ Good music, good people, and zero judgment ✦ Every samba step trains body and brain: a full-body workout sharpening memory, balance, coordination, and mental agility ✦ A workout that feels like a party

YOUR INSTRUCTOR Armando Duarte Taught by Professor Armando Duarte, Full Professor of Dance and author of the forthcoming The Samba Within the Body of a Brazilian, these classes offer something rare: authentic Samba de Gafieira taught by a Brazilian practitioner with decades of experience onstage, in the academy, and in the gafieira itself.

Grab your friends and come dance the night away! 🇧🇷💙