Talk:Zouk

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[edit] Cleanup

This article needs some work -- the grammar's a mess, it doesn't always follow a coherent line of thought, and people keep adding their favorite zouk artists to the main text. --Jay (Histrion) (talkcontribs) 19:50, 2 June 2006 (UTC)

I agree. This page really needs some work. I added the genre box on the right side. Needed:

-clean up some of the dead-links in the page. 
-make the page conform to Wikipedia:WikiProject_Music_genres/Guidelines
-Add History section, Artists Section, Samples Section
-Give every country - subgenre of zouk their more well defined sections.

-- User:Aphimmer 14:43, 22 January 2007

I wanted to do a translation from the French page... It's actually weaker in most areas. Naniwako 00:25, 25 March 2007 (UTC) Naniwako

[edit] Zouk music style vs zouk dancing styles

Please keep dancing style topics seperate from music style topics. The main topic of this article is about the music style Zouk and the dancing styles are in the dancing section and should stay there.

This is why I seperated the Zouk-Lambada dancing style and gave it a seperate page. It is a bigger topic than the Zouk music style. —Preceding unsigned comment added by Caco de vidro (talkcontribs) 21:10, 1 January 2008 (UTC)

[edit] SOULZOUK spam

I removed the following text added by 201.19.98.168:

Soulzouk was created in 2005 by China a teacher from Rio de Janeiro, Brazil. Soulzouk, or zouk "freestyle" is a new way of dancing zouk that is from Brazil. More contemporary, it differs from traditional Brazilian Zouk by a new way to connect with the music. This way of dancing is not based only on the pace, but on the melody of the song, which means it can, not only be danced with zouk music but also with a variety of musical genres like rap or R 'n'B. The gentlemen leads not only his hands and arms, but also with his legs, shoulders and head. Also, the Soulzouk brings great movement inovations with the twist steps, “table” cambrés and many others already well known such as the “suicide” and “body jump”.

There are a number of reasons why the text should be removed:

  • It is frequently added to this page and removed afterwards.
  • The author keeps using capitals.
  • The text uses very subjective terms like: "new way of dancing", "the way of dancing", "great movement improvements".
  • This style is the personal style of China.
  • The text says nothing about the fact that it is a minimal movement style.