STUTTGART

4 days • 40 workshops • 50 private lessons • 4 parties
Life is greater with forró

May 31 – June 3

We Dance Forró

The countdown for our 2018 reunion has begun.



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With Us!

Great

Forró Festival

It’s the great opportunity to meet friends and make new ones. 1 great event and unforgettable 4 days and nights. You can count on 9 amazing dance rooms; 15 teachers, more than 40 workshops & 50 private lessons, parties with over 500 participants and endless enjoyment.
  • Have no ideia what is forró? Check it here!
Have no ideia what is forró? Check it here!

forró
male noun

  • dnc popular dance, in which one dances in pairs with music origin from Brasil northeastern; foot drag (arrasta-pé).
  • mus this music, of varied genres (coco, baião, xote, etc.).

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Great

Workshops

The Forró de Domingo Festival is known to have the most fascinating forró teachers and focuses on delivering top quality classes. In 4 days you will have the unique opportunity to learn new moves and to develop your dance techniques with the world’s greatest forró teachers.

Great

Parties

With over 500 participants every year, the Forró de Domingo Festival’s Parties have a wonderful atmosphere! 4 amazing parties, starting on Thursday with our traditional Barbecue. The venues are splendid and the choice of bands for Friday and Saturday is always one of our top concerns. This is also where teachers make their live presentations for the festival participants to see them at their best.

Last but not least

Forró de Domingo Festival

Over past 10 years the Forró de Domingo Festival brought the first wave of Forró teachers in Europe together. Now it’s time to bring this huge movement together one last time again. With more then 50 Forró festivals happening outside Brazil, We think our goal has been achieved!
Now is time to make space for the new.

2018 we’ll host the last edition of Forró de Domingo Festival celebrating 10 years of Europe’s greatest Forró Festival. We will use all our experience and power to make this last Festival an unforgettable Forró event.

We might have helped some people to have happier life through Forró. We would be so happy and very glad to see all of you here, celebrating the farewell party of the first Forró Festival outside Brazil.

Check out the

Schedule

We present to you our 4 day calendar of Forró de Domingo’s workshops. The Dancing Classes Facilities hosts 9 dance rooms; 40 dance workshops and 50 private lessons, with over 500 participants. We want to offer you organic, dynamic and innovative sources of growth, sparing no creative resources. We believe in Forró as a cultural expression and lifestyle.

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May 31

Thursday

12:00

Registration and free dance time

12:30

Festivals opening. Get together!

13h30

Festival’s Workshops Starts

15h00

Daily Party Time
Group Dynamics

16h00

Second Round Starts

19h00

Party



June 1 and 2

Friday and Saturday

12:00

Registration and free dance time

12:30

Get together!

13h30

Festival’s Workshops Starts

15h00

Daily Party Time
Group Dynamic

17h00

Second Round Starts

21h00

Party






June 3

Sunday – Festival’s Last Day

12:00

Registration and free dance time

12h30

Have a snack, a warm drink and toast to the Festival

13h30

Workshops Starts

14h30

Daily Party Time
Group Dynamic

15h30

Last Round Starts

18h00

Party



Learn All Day

Party All Night Forró de Domingo Festival

May 31 Thursday 19h00 • Forró & Grill Party

This is the first night to work on your new moves. It´s time for our welcoming Party! It starts with a very German Barbecue with lots of beer and a Forró selection made by our first guest DJ. Just enjoy and dance!

June 1 Friday 21h00 • Brasil Party “For All” Party

Tonight we have Live Forró and we present you with the second guest DJ! After working hard on your workshops all day, it is time to explore everything you have learned and try out your new skills on the dance floor.

June 2 Saturday 21h00 • Forrobodó Party

Forrobodó means excitement and limitless fun… Is anyone tired yet? Tonight our dance floor also becomes a stage when some of our teachers make their dance presentations, turning this party into a live dance show and of course, we have live music once again!

June 3 Sunday 18h00 • Forró de Domingo Party

Sunday is shorter than any other day. It is also our traditional Forró de Domingo night at the downtown forró center in Stuttgart, 7Grad, ending at midnight. We know your feet can still make it, we all danced our way through Forró de Domingo Festival. So let’s dance one last night! Or just chill and have another German beer with your Forró de Domingo family!


Check Out the Chosen

Teachers

Europe’s Greatest Festival is not using its teachers choosing system one more time.

We did not reach this year the minimum number of 50 teachers enrollments to participate in the process of the choosing’ sytem. There were 35 “only”. And ’cause that, instead, we will do the following:

a) All teachers who registered for this year’s selection process (those who did not register can still do so), have the possibility to give private lessons in the last Festival Forró de Domingo. For this we are creating a system of booking private lessons, so people can do this online during the registration for the festival. And I will reserve at least 4 rooms for these classes.

b) Here we are doing a survey of the feedbacks of the last 10 years of festival. We will call to give the regular classes in the festival of 2018 the 10 best evaluated teachers in these ten years of event. Invitations will be made soon.


Check teachers from 2017 Forró de Domingo Festival edition
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Teachers

Márcio & Daiara

At age 15 Márcio partnered with Daiara, who had been dancing for over a year and she learned the Itaúnas style extremely fast and harmoniously.


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Teachers

Valmir & Milena

They are ones of the most influential dancers in the Forró Pé descalço style and in the world of forró.


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Teachers

Rudolfo & Sarah

They teach Forró Universitário style and mix it with Forró Nordestino style.


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Teachers

Junio & Vera

Junio Reis is a loving forró teacher, professional dancer, coach and choreographer who lives in Aachen, Germany.


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Teacher

Juliana Braga

She started her education in modern dance, theatre, afro-brazilian and folklore at the first dance school for modern dance in the city. For ten years, Juliana works as a teacher, dancer and choreographer.


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Teacher

Dhiego Luiz

Since May 2012 he lives and teaches dancing in Germany.


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Teacher

Marion Lima

She decided to travel regularly in Brazil and in 2007 she created a partnership with the famous dancer of Forró Marinho Braz of Rio de Janeiro. In 2010 she also became a partner of the group Cabrueira of Edj Braga of Salvador.


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Teacher

Pablo Dias

He is today a renowned teacher , musician, composer and hosts the popular Forró de Lisboa Festival every year, since 2012.


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Teachers

Ricardo Ambrozio & Sarah Collings

Together they organise the festival Ai Que Bom Brussels, now in its fourth year.


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Teacher

Gilberto Paixão

In 2003, after obtaining professional dance registry he was invited to participate in the development of a new Forró style, Forró Cassino, being one of the main diffusers.


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Teacher

Marina Abib

Dancer and founder of Companhia Soma. She develops a continuous research, through theoretical references and field experiences, on the construction of a corporeity developed from matrices of the traditional Brazilian dances.


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Teachers

Fabio Reis & Mileide

Style – Forró For All (For All Style). This dancing style is based on a mix of the main styles of Forró danced in Brazil, focusing on the Forró Pé de Serra.


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Teacher

Téco Canindé

Grown up in Recife, already got involved with the culture of Pernambuco as a child. He worked with important people for the local culture, searching for traditional roots and development of cultural manifestations that he exercises until today.





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Bands

Music is embedded into the festival and magically makes two into one while we are dancing!

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Forró Band (Friday)

Filpo Ribeiro
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Filpo Ribeiro e a Feira Do Rolo Group of Forró with fiddle / regional music. Members: Filpo Ribeiro, Marcos Alma, Diogo Duarte, Guegué Medeiros.

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Forró Band (Friday)

Forró de KA

The band Forró de KA has been livening dance floors across Europe with its distinguishable sound for the past five years; enough time to allow the ensemble’ passion for music to unmistakably bind its name to the fusion of different rhythms and languages.

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Forró Band (Saturday)

Oswaldinho do Acordeon

He recorded his first album at the age of eight, and participated in hundreds of albums with artists from various countries.

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Forró Band (Saturday)

Trio Forrobamba

From London, the band consists of Guilhermino Ramos (triangle / vocal), Cassio Matheus (Zabumba / vocal) and Rodrigo Vasconcelos (accordion). They are part of the Forró de Londres Forró community and has been an indispensable part of the local scene for years.

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Disc Jockey (Thursday)

DJ Sampa

He first came into contact with Forró in 1997/98, when he frequented São Paulo’s Remelexo club together with his Capoeira group. He moved to Switzerland in 1999 and soon established his reputation in the Latin music scene as DJ Sampa. Studying traditional Forró since 2014…

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Find every

Festival Location

Our workshop location is centered and close to Bus and Tube Stations. Every classroom is designed for dance courses.

All dance parties are placed in areas picked by our team with great care, because they also dance Forró.

So trust us when we say, that every inch is carefully thought over to be best enjoyed!

GET DIRECTIONS ON HOW TO GET TO EVERY FESTIVAL LOCATIONS!


Low Cost

Accommodation

If you choose to stay with us, our gym facility is an extension of our Festival. Offering a climate ambient, 600 meters away from the workshop location, where you can sleep for only 10,00€ per night. There are naturally clean bathrooms for women, men and mixed.

If this room gets full, you will have to look for accommodation by yourself. Regarding this you get a notification by e-mail.

Dance Class

Facilities

All dance classes and the get together will take place here.

Tube and Bus stop are: Stadtmitte / Rotebühlplatz

Our address is Rotebühlplatz 28, 70173 Stuttgart, Germany

Parties

Dance clubs

With over 500 participants every year, the Forró de Domingo Festival’s Parties have a wonderful atmosphere! 4 amazing parties, starting on Thursday, ending on Sunday and endless enjoyment.

Thursday Party – Kulturhaus Arena
Friday Party – Sängerhalle
Saturday Party – SpardaWelt Eventcenter
Sunday Party – 7 Grad


Main venue

Stuttgart Festival Hall

Events are held in the Main hall, workshops in Ground, First and Third floor dancing rooms

Address

Rotebühlpl. 28, 70173 Stuttgart, Germany

Email

info@forrofestival.com

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