What exactly is BachaZouk? By Carlos Segura (BachaZouk founder)

“Bachazouk is its own independent style built on bachata music. You use bachata music and fuse in a lot of zouk movement, so it's not fully zouk and not fully bachata — it's its own thing.”

Opening remarks defining what bachazouk is

“Most of the body technique comes from zouk technique, and the basics, the rhythm, the music — most of that comes from bachata.”

Explaining where the technical elements of bachazouk come from

“It's not sensual bachata mixed with zouk. It's bachata mixed with zouk.”

Correcting a common misconception about bachazouk

“In terms of body technique, it's 90–95% the same as zouk. Not the footwork. There are differences in things like how you exit a turn, or the basic you use to create head movement, so we made small changes and adjustments to make it easy to fit this movement inside bachata.”

Explaining in detail how close bachazouk's body technique is to zouk, and which parts were adjusted