Zouk Love - Dance Demo - Mon soleil Ama & Miguel {Caribbean Zouk} Melbourne Australia

Music: Princess Lover -Mon soleil
In Antillean French Creole, Zouk means party!
Zouk is both a dance and a type of music. Zouk is danced to a slow-quick-quick rhythm, the strong beats and therefore longer steps being on the first third & fourth beat of the bar.
The music has a boom-tick-tick feel to it, the tick-tick, being syncopated or cut beats. Some dancers dance all three beats, taking a long step on the boom and two quick and short steps on the tick-tick, or 1-2-3 or slow-quick-quick.
Caribbean dancers are said to omit the first tick and dance to boom-tick, boom-tick, or 1-2, 1-2 or slow-slow, slow-slow with a distinct pushing down on the weighted foot accompanied by a sway of the hips (check out the Zouk videos). Zouklove is danced to slower music and it is a more dramatic and sensual style of Zouk.
Zouklove has its origins in a slow tempo form of cadence sung by Ophelia Marie of the Dominica. Zouklove in turn influenced an African genre of Zouk called Kizomba which developed in Angola and Cape Verde.