BRISBANE ZOUK FESTIVAL 2024 WAS EPIC! ❣️❣️❣️
The vibe, the community feel, the inclusivity and the amount of love & passion was out of this world! ❤🤗
So, thank you to all you amazing supporters who made our festival one of your chosen dance events for the year, and came with an open mind for learning and open heart to be inspired, and make the most of being all together in such a beautiful space. ❤️
We never take this for granted and we appreciate it from the deepest part of our hearts. 🤗💝🙏
BZF is a festival with the aim to bring everyone together, to celebrate Zouk, awesome dancing and friendships, and to acknowledge and value our national instructors and artists and their wonderful communities in all corners of Australia & New Zealand! 🥰🙏
We also love introducing some inspiring and unique international artists from further away for us all to experience, meet in person, and to be inspired and learn from. 🙂💃🕺🤩
& This year was no different, with a wonderful mix and combination of passionate and talented Artists from all corners coming together in a beautiful spirit of fun, teamwork, passion for their craft, and the will and aim of bringing their absolute best to our dancers. ✨️✨️✨️💖
We loved and felt that incredible vibe of having everyone together, and we can't say this too much, we’d like to extend our warm and heart felt appreciation to so many of you who made this event happen and with a big success! 🤗❤️
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Firstly, thank you to everyone, & to all the dancers, from all around Australia, NZ and further afield who came along with such a positive energy and vibe and supported this community event.
We’d like you to know that we acknowledge your support, appreciate it, and feel humbled and excited that you chose to be a part of this special festival. ❤️🙏❤️🙏🤗🤗🤗
This could not have happened without all of you, as well as a big crew of helpers. So, we’d especially like to give a big shout out to our tireless volunteers who kept things going smoothly behind the scenes. 🤗🙏
Thank you for your teamwork and organisational skills as well as your warm welcomes at our registration desk, Emma, Juliane, Nasim, Camille, Rosa, Sally, May, Lilly, Noemie, Roushini. We also have our guys putting in some extra muscle power on top of it all, so thank you, Matty, Dieter, Bernard, Duncan, Noel, Dragon, and Ryan.
A super special mention and thanks to our bus drivers for doing an amazing job as our airport bus drivers - Kerry, Matty, Gordon Stamper, Bernard <3
Another special moment of our event is being able to create a small space just to get together to connect and share, and so we'd love to extend an extra big thank you to our artists who were so generous in offering their support & ideas, and for their contribution towards Conversation on the Green, as well as their time in facilitating these lovely sessions to bring people together to share their ideas, thoughts and feelings. ❤🤗
On that note, we would love to give our BIG gratitude to all the team leaders and teachers who trained, encouraged and brought their performance teams along to provide their wonderful entertainment for our Shows nights. It’s a lot of hard work and dedication, so thank you to the Teams and dancers, and of course our own Cloud9Zouk teams. 🙏💖
We loved all of your performances and the inspiration it brought to our audience of family, friends and fellow dancers! ❤️👏👏✨
Also, a big shout out to our MC Matthew, who we appreciate for stepping up many times for us now as MC, and who did a great job entertaining our audience and introducing our awesome performers.🌟
(& His voice has got to be unmatched! 😉). Thank you, Matthew 🙏 🙂✨
We all know that this wonderful and united community that we have here in Australia & New Zealand is only possible because of our amazing national Artists who go out there day in and day out putting in the hard work, introducing new people to Zouk and creating communities in their parts of the world. 💖💖💖
Your workshops were so well received and appreciated and we are so privileged to have you being a part of our festival and supporting us. 😍
Our gratitude to our Australian artists - Shaun & Nikki, Izzy & Steve, Karen & Barnes John Foo, Jeff & Sara, Rafael & Juliana, Stephy & JoJo, Sarah & Bruno, Jiten & Riana, Joe & Jenna, Jack, Magno, Jimmy & Alana, Diego & Livi and our own Behrouz. ✨💖
And extra appreciation for the extra travel, efforts and resources by our New Zealand artists in being here in Australia to join us and add to the great vibe of all dancers from all parts coming together in a good spirit.🙏😀
Thank you so much, Shannon & Trajano, Dharshana & Rebekah, Adam & Gabrielle, Arkadi & Gwen 🙏🤗❤️
We would love to dedicate this festival to you all and celebrate with you! ✨ ❤
And... our amazing International Artists for 2024 have done it again! Giving world class workshops, being so humorous, and humble and down to earth and dancing away with everyone. 🤗
We loved having them all as part of our festival, and appreciate their efforts in coming all the way across the world to be here and to still deliver their best each day, even with jetlag and the late nights...
Thank you, our biggest hugs and appreciation, Luan & Adriana , Iago & Ninna, Kate & Bryan, Leo & Mathilde ❤💖🤍 🤗🤗🤗
And of course we cannot forget our Amazing DJs who kept the parties pumping. 🎶🎧 You guys are the heart of the parties and took everyone through a wonderful journey every night. So, thank you so very much for working hard to give everyone the best experience. 🙂
Kudos to our BZF DJ's 👏 - Sexy Alexy, Grevo, Panda, DJ Habibi, Trajano, Tayler, DJ Berries/Logan, Dharshana, Jeff, DJ Kadi, Shez , DJ TK Phuong, DJ Shauninho , DJ Adu 🙏
🌟Once again, we’d like to say a big thank you to our Photographer & Videographers who captured all those beautiful memories of the weekend. 💖
Our wonderful Bob McGahan Photography for being there as always, we love your presence at our events & especially appreciate the extra long hours given to a festival like this.
Our videographers, Roman, who has been there for us for many 'gigs' now and has the fastest feet on the job 🙂, Kerry (Call This Guy) our multi-talented videographer and 'jack of all trades', for all of their hard work, professionalism and commitment. And our newest addition to BZF, Nadun (Clicksation Photography) can't wait to see your work! ✨
Also... a small special mention to our 'inconspicuous' / anonymous?😉 videographer, Edward, who also was in the background capturing some of the beautiful dances of our attendees. 💖
We love you guys and what you create for us and our attendees and artists to be able to look back on and remember all the special moments. ❤✨
Our aim was to have an inclusive, warm, and friendly event for all of our community to enjoy, and to give the opportunity for people to get to know and appreciate all of the instructors and community leaders, and their fellow dancers. So we very much appreciated the beautiful venue, The Old Museum, and would like to thank Sandra, Ken, Adam, Ash and the wonderful crew and team for their lovely assistance and guidance. ♥️
A thank you as well to our sponsors and stallholders, so that we could offer the little extras to our attendees - our appreciation to Jeni and Bizee Bodyz for returning with her gorgeous & practical, non-seethrough dancewear, and the multi-talented Dr. Cass for her chiropractic skills and bodywork, as well as Suz (Sushumna Flow) and her team for remedial & massage therapies, to help our dance friends survive all the hours of dancing, and finally Ben of Dance Fever for his super array of shoes, including new design spin soles (Black Friday sale on right now til 2/12),
And of course our lunch breaks are so much more convenient and an enjoyable break with having our food vendors close and ready. 😋
Our appreciation to Marie for bringing her beautiful Mirabelle Vintage Van to help us kick start our mornings with coffees, teas and the tastiest pastries, too, to Ros & Bill and son, Liam, with Chill Juice Bar, for their refreshing fresh juices and bowls, to Jess & family with their awesome latin Vamos Eats, Diana of Dumpling Masters, and Nazim and wife Tuğba bringing mediterranean van, GourMeat Grill & BBQ, for an array of tasty lunch options, 😋
Another thing that has become a little bit of a tradition at BZF, is our Sunday BBQ!
Our time to have a relaxed and sociable break for us all to enjoy the food, the beautiful lawns and spending some fun and friendly time together. ✨️💖
This year was a bit of a family affair with BZF hosting our own BBQ Spitroast, with Sibell's brother, Toncie , preparing many of the items and organising, and our previous BBQ-master, Steve providing guidance and assisting with food prep, as well as many of our volunteer team pitching in to makeǰ things run smoothly and looking after our attendees so nicely <3
.. A special acknowledgment & extra thanks to awesomest Matty for being the one to meet our spitroast providers (Ryan & Allan, Outdoor Living Australia) for the 5am start!, putting on the meat, and Bernard for his care and taking on much of the cooking for an awesome result. 👌 😋
Great job! to the enitre team, and we loved your friendly teamwork and wonderful help. 🤗❤️
To cap it off, we had our post-festival activity, introduced 2 years ago as a way to unwind and relax on the Monday, while still being able to socialise and mingle.
And this was the 3hr Boat Trip down Brisbane River, skippered by Barrie's lovely and friendly crew from Brisvegas Cruises aboard the charming Lady in Red vessel. ⛴️🌞✨️
What a wonderful way to spend a beautiful Brisbane morning with friends from all over. ⛵ With special thanks Alexy for DJ'ing and bringing the cruisey tunes. 🙂🎵💃🕺
& Not forgetting the final 'cherry on top' , a chance to relax, soak in the magnesium baths and (for those game enough ;) ) the refreshing cold plunge for recovery, all at the beautiful rooftop bathouse, Soak in West End. ahhh!
For us this BZF2024 was a huge, eventful, and feeling-filled event this year, with our energies high the whole weekend from all of the warm and wonderful people enjoying, and seeing the enthusiasm of our dancers, sharing their love and appreciation for everything - - for all of which which we are so grateful and over the moon 🌜 about. 🙏❤️
So, a final BIG thank you to you ALL, we hope each of you had an amazing time, and we thank you all, every person who was a part of this magical weekend with us. ✨
Let’s do it all again ( and more 😉 ) at BZF 2025!
(Stay posted for our extra special rate holiday release tickets, coming SOON).
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And until then, all our Love, Gratitude, Appreciation, and we wish everyone a wonderful end to this year. 💖
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Behrouz Boroomand Dancer
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Bob McGahan Photography
The Old Museum
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