Dance as a Form of Human Interaction After many years of social dancing, I started noticing how certain parts of people seem to emerge through the way they dance. Many years ago, I had a playful habit whenever I met someone new on the dance floor. After one or two songs, I would tell them I was going to try to guess a few things about their personality based only on the way they danced. It was mostly a joke, usually followed by laughter, but every now and then I would land surprisingly close...

Before starting this text, I should probably say that this article is a little different from most things I usually publish here. It is less educational and more reflective. These are questions I have been carrying for a long time while teaching, organizing events, producing videos, writing about forró, and watching the dance and music transform across different cities, countries, and generations. Years ago, during my doctoral studies in music at the University of Miami, I took courses...

Forró New York exists in a somewhat unusual space between an educational project, an artistic initiative, and a community ecosystem. It is not a large institutional structure, but it is also not simply one teacher running isolated classes. There is a central educational and artistic direction behind the project, but much of what exists today came from people gradually becoming involved beyond the classroom itself: helping during events, supporting classes, volunteering during festivals,...