From Root to Style
Free lesson · From Root to Style
How to mix the roots of Bachata with your own style.
In this free lesson Kenza maps out her whole process on the board, from the basic step to a style people recognise as yours. Urban is her example, and the same process can be applied to any style.
From Root to Style — Kenza's free lesson
How a Bachata basic becomes a style of your own, one choice at a time.
Free, and it plays on this page — no waiting for an email.
Roots and style
Roots and style belong in the same dance.
Most of us learn Bachata in separate classes, Dominican footwork in one and urban in another, and when the music starts each stays in its own drawer. In this lesson Kenza shows you where they meet. A style is a series of choices, and every one of them starts from the root.
The whole path
What comes before this lesson, and what comes after.
These are the seven steps Kenza writes on the board in the lesson, in her words, with the place where you study each one inside Kenzaverse.
- Before this module
- THEORY OF NOTHINGStart from the neutral form. No style, no decoration. Just the root.Bachata module
- ROOTUnderstand the base movement.Bachata module
- UNDERSTANDINGKnow what you are doing, and why.Bachata module
- LEGOSBreak the movement into elements: hips, feet, torso, shoulders.Bachata module
- VOCABULARYExplore different movement languages to have more tools.Urban · MJ Style · Technique Lab · Musicality Lab
- This lesson · free, on this page
- FROM ROOT TO STYLEKenza draws the whole path on the board, one step after the other, and shows you the point where a style is born.Watch the free lesson
- After this lesson · Urban Bachata modulePRO
- CHOICEMake a conscious choice. What do I want to change? How do I want to express it?
- STYLEIn this module, our style choice is Urban. But it's only one possibility.
- Sequence Analysis: No le Quite la Bachata a la Bachata
- Sequence Analysis: Chivi
- Sequence Analysis: Miradita Asesina
These are the practical lessons. In each one Kenza takes a sequence and dances it twice, first in Bachata, then in Urban Bachata, so you see exactly what changes. Every lesson is a step harder than the one before.
Inside this lesson
In this free lesson you'll learn
- 01Where Urban Bachata comes from: the same Bachata root, with different choices on top.
- 02The seven steps from the root to a style, in order, and what each one is for.
- 03The questions behind a conscious choice: what do I want to change, how do I want to change it, what do I want to express.
- 04What to look for when you watch Kenza dance: the reason behind each choice, so you can make your own.
The goal is not copying my choices. The goal is to understand why I make those choices.Kenza
You got here at the right moment
A few places still carry the discount for life. One of them can be yours.
PRO at €49 a month instead of €69 — and it stays €49 for as long as you stay with us. We keep 20 places for the people who watch the lesson, and the price goes up one step at a time.
This is only the beginning. To build your style and mix it with the roots of Bachata, join Kenzaverse PRO today.
€69 €49 / month, for as long as you stay €20 a month off
The sooner you come in, the less you pay
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- €55/ month Next 10 0 / 10 taken
- €59/ month Last 5 0 / 5 taken
The price of the step you come in on stays yours for as long as you stay with us, new modules included. When a step fills up, the next one opens. After the last one, PRO is €69.
- Every module: Bachata, Kenza Style, Urban, MJ Style — plus Technique Lab, Urban Bachata and Create Your Style, PRO only
- A new lesson every Tuesday
- Create Your Style: the module where you build your own identity as a dancer
- A private WhatsApp community, PRO only — where you talk directly with Kenza
- Personal coaching on a dedicated WhatsApp — you send your videos, she answers you
Cancel anytime · 48-hour money-back
PRO is open
You can come in today, with everything that is inside.
Every module, the PRO-only ones included, and the coaching. You come in today and you stay for as long as it feels right.
This is only the beginning. To build your style and mix it with the roots of Bachata, join Kenzaverse PRO today.
€69 / month
- Every module: Bachata, Kenza Style, Urban, MJ Style — plus Technique Lab, Urban Bachata and Create Your Style, PRO only
- A new lesson every Tuesday
- Create Your Style: the module where you build your own identity as a dancer
- A private WhatsApp community, PRO only — where you talk directly with Kenza
- Personal coaching on a dedicated WhatsApp — you send your videos, she answers you
Cancel anytime · 48-hour money-back
What's inside
The modules where you build
Maybe you recognise yourself here
- You feel the music, but you can't turn what you hear into movement.
- You study a lot, but when you improvise you always do the same things.
- You're technically good, but you dance like many others, without a clear identity.
- You know a lot, but you can't connect it and turn it into freedom.
- You feel there's much more in you than what shows when you dance.
It isn't that you don't train enough. What's missing is a method that connects the music, your body and your choices. Kenza built hers over twenty years of dance and two years of putting it in order, and Kenzaverse is the one place where she teaches it from start to finish.
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BachataOpen now
Where it all starts: the instruments, the rhythm sections, musicality and interpretation. Then the body, one Lego at a time: hips, shoulders, torso, feet. The Theory of Nothing is one of these lessons.
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UrbanOpen now
A second language for your body: groove, bounce, swing and whip arms, footwork and a full choreography. Your movement vocabulary gets bigger.
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MJ StyleOpen now
Principles and moves from one of the biggest influences on Kenza: the back sweep, the Billie Jean shuffle, the shoulder pop.
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Kenza StyleOpen now
Kenza's choreographies, where Bachata, Urban and MJ Style meet in one way of dancing: Bilirrubina, Barcelona, Lokita Por Mí, Chivi and more.
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Technique LabOpen now
The tools of Kenza's academic training: posture and alignment, plié, turns and spotting, isolations, arm waves. This is where the quality of your movement changes.
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Musicality LabOpen now
Listening and interpretation worked on a real song, from the first note to the movement. It starts with Imitadora.
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Urban BachataOpen now
The same sequence danced in Bachata and then in Urban Bachata: you see exactly what changes, and you learn to move from one to the other on purpose.
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Create Your StyleOpen now
The module where you look at yourself as a dancer: your strengths, what's missing, and the tools to build your own identity. Whatever your level, whatever you dance for.
My goal is not to teach you how to dance like me. It's to give you the tools to become the best version of yourself as a dancer.Kenza
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Your move
Same root, different choice, different style.
Start from the lesson, then come and make your choices with Kenza.
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