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We provide professionally crafted dance instructions in Kizomba, Semba, Tarraxinha, Afro-House, Funana, Batuku and more.

 

Whether you are requesting just dance instruction services, performances, DJ services or combinations of services, we can add significant values to your event.

 

We will also promote your event throughout our extensive social media network and website.

We look forward to working with you.

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BOOKING INFO

Antonio Medina (AKA Tonino Cidade) is from the Cape Verde Islands. He grew up dancing Morna, Coladeira, Funana, Batuku, Passada, Mbalakh, other Afro-Caribbean dances such as and Zouk and Salsa. He was first introduced to the world of structured dance through Salsa in 2006 and after two years of intensive training started to teach at Baile Con Sazon Dance Studio in Fayetteville, North Carolina.
 
Tonino has over 10 years of experience as a Latin dance instructor and is a certified Red Belt Salsa Instructor with the Black Belt Salsa System founded by the mult8-World Champion Edie “the Salsa Freak”. In 2010 he was introduced to Kizomba and immediately felt home with the music and dance that had always identified him.
 
Tonino has trained with many International Kizomba experts to include Ricardo and Paola from Afro-Latin Connection, Portugal, Eddy Vents, Guinea Bissau, Lucia Nogueira, Portugal to name a few.
 
Tonino has taught Kizomba, Salsa, Bachata, Cha Cha, Batuku, Coladeira, Funana and Passada in many Dance Festivals/Congresses such as the New Orleans Salsa Bachata Festival, The American Riviere Kizomba Festival, The Cancun Salsa Bachata Festival, The Phoenix Bachata Festival, and in cities such as Los Angeles CA, Las Vegas NV, Orlando FL, Columbia SC, Fayetteville NC, Charlotte NC, Myrtle Beach SC.
 
Tonino’s passion for Art, music, and dance led him to develop as an established Disk Jockey, Photographer and Videographer. He is a dynamic dancer, patient instructor and his biggest reward is watching new students grow to become phenomenal dancers.
Tonino is also a retired U.S. Army Veteran with 20 years of service and multiple combat tours to Bosnia, Kosovo, Iraq and Afghanistan.
 
 
"Kizomba changes lives in good ways"

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About Kizomba Phoenix

Kizomba Phoenix is the premier place to learn Kizomba, Semba, Tarraxinha, Passada, Coladeira, Funana, Kompa, Afro-House, and other influential dances within the Zouk family, for dancers in the Phoenix metropolitan, Arizona

 

Our mission is to promote Kizomba, educate students, train world-class dancers and preserve the beautiful African culture behind Kizomba. We create a profound family-oriented atmosphere, where everyone can find a home, happiness, love, support, friendship, patience, understanding and charge ourselves with lots of positive energy through dance.

 

We have professionally designed 17 monthly courses, with over 70 lessons in 12 modules to create world-class leads and follows. We start our dance lessons with a group introduction to get everyone acquainted, a dynamic warm-up to get our blood pumping, a connection exercise, our terminal learning objective for the session and often a short educational video. We end our classes with recognition and a quick show-down exercise to allow students to demonstrate their newly acquired superpowers. 

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We look forward to seeing you in class.

About Kizomba:

Kizomba is both a music and dance genre from Angola. The music is a fusion of Semba and Zouk and the dance is a fusion of Semba, Passada as well as other Angolan dances such as Massemba, Kazukuta, Kabetula and more. The dance and the music initially had no name and was referred to as “aquele Zouk com Semba” meaning “that Zouk with Semba”, which later became Kizomba, a name associated with neighborhood gatherings where this new fusion of music and dance took place. These gatherings were also called “Kizombada” and “Passada”. New dance genres and styles are continuously being inspired by Kizomba such as Urban Kiz, BachaKiz, KizTango, and more. Today Kizomba has caught world’s attention and it is played and dance in all continents.

 

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